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Download CSVIran (Islamic Republic of) · · Day 3 · 13 sentences
- How can a person who is currently facing proceedings before two international courts for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide be allowed to be present in this Assembly?
- Does he belong at this podium to justify his crimes, or in the dock of a court of law to answer for genocide?
- He also added that he made very easily the decision to commit these crimes and crimes like collective punishment, ethnic cleansing, and the use of starvation as a method of war.
- However, he cannot whitewash his crimes.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 9 sentences
- It recognized the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.
- Persecuting the International Criminal Court and its members encourages these crimes to go unpunished.
- Mr. President, Brazil does not underestimate the challenge represented by organized crime.
- We need cooperation to block the flow of weapons and money that feeds crime, organized crime.
Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- The first major challenge we face is the frontal assault we must wage on organized crime and petty crime.
- In this context, confronting this war as an isolated problem to be dealt with by each nation alone is not only mistaken thinking and a mistake that we've been making, rather it is an act of giving the advantage to transnational organized crime.
- And they get that through crimes and illegal businesses that range from smuggling, illegal mining, drug trafficking, human trafficking, extortion, and killing.
- In Peru, we will pursue crime and prosecute it.
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- As a result, last year, we achieved the largest drop in violent crime ever recorded.
- I sent our crime Busters into Memphis, TN and New Orleans, LA, and crime in each place went down over 80% and it'll go down still further.
- More importantly, when I arrived on January 20th of last year in Washington, DC, it was riddled with crime.
- And now crime is down 87%.
Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- The money that finances mafias is laundered far from where the crimes are committed.
- For a long time, organised crime was dealt with as a law enforcement matter, but today we know that it is more than that.
- First of all, an international mechanism within the framework of the UN to trace and freeze the illicit financial flows from transnational organized crime.
- And the third concrete action that the UNAT initiative include transnational organized crime as a priority for conflict prevention and provides the organization with the capacity to support states that request it.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- That is why those mafias that do not have constitutions, that do not have laws and do not have to report their resources, they are mafias that are using organized crime and using resources, be it drug trafficking, smuggling or gold.
- The ideology, and this is very important, I spoke earlier about organized crime and the mafia.
- The fight against organized crime, as I have already said, organized crime has various different sources of financing.
- to finance myself, I had to ask multilaterals, I have to ask for resources that come late or sometimes never because the slow procedures that those multilateral organizations have mean that organized crime has an advantage when it comes to getting resources from drug trafficking, drug terrorism or the smuggling of gold to then destabilize our democracies.
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- The genocidal crime of Zionism against the Palestinian people, the pirate attacks against vessels, and the extrajudicial executions in the Caribbean Sea and some areas in the Pacific, the military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran are new expressions of this atrocity.
- It is an act of collective punishment, a crime also proscribed by international humanitarian law.
- The obvious short-term immediate goal pursued by such a policy is to induce a humanitarian crisis in Cuba, which is also a crime.
- a major crime.
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Investment plummeted, employment ground to a standstill and homicide levels rose to an extent that Chile had never seen in modern history as a result of the rising tide of organised crime.
- Order is one of the preconditions of freedom, the freedom to walk home worry-free and to not be a victim of crime, the freedom to run a business and not be stymied by the action of the state, the freedom to invest.
- Many South American nations have acceded to it so that we can coordinate to effectively combat transnational organized crime.
- For the first time in a long time, Latin American governments are really, truly uniting and working together, not by simply issuing communiques, but getting to know each other and speaking to each other to really come up with common plans against transnational organized crime, migration control, and coming together to forge joint development opportunities.
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- But, Mr. President, last year from this very podium, I made a solemn pledge on behalf of Africa and the global African diaspora to seek full international recognition of the transatlantic trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.
- Mr. President, 123 nations voted to affirm this fundamental truth that the transatlantic slave trade and chattel enslavement were the gravest crimes against humanity.
- It was adopted because the structural legacies of those historic crimes continue to fuel systematic racism, economic marginalization, and a global financial architecture that is weighted against Africa and people of African descent.
- Across every conflict, whether in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the standard must remain uniform, respect for sovereign integrity, protect civilians, ensure unhindered humanitarian access, and hold perpetrators of war crimes accountable.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- We are amending our Dangerous Drugs Act to introduce stiffer penalties as a deterrent, and we are strengthening law enforcement to prevent and detect these crimes and to hold perpetrators accountable.
- In August this year, Solomon Islands acceded to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, a clear demonstration of our resolve to confront this threat.
- Our vision of a peaceful and secure Pacific extends beyond transnational crime.
- At a minimum, the veto must never again be used in situations of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes.
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Transnational organised crime is more than just a threat to public security.
- They are linked through drug trafficking, trafficking in persons, illicit arms trafficking, smuggling, extortion, money laundering, environmental crime and other illicit economies.
- Climate change, pandemics, transnational organized crime, food insecurity, human mobility and technological transformation all demand cooperation.
- In closing, I wish to say that Guatemala will continue to do its part, strengthening democratic institutions capable of meeting the needs of our people, resolutely confronting transnational organized crime and those who seek to capture institutions, defending international law consistently, promoting regional responses based on shared responsibility, and working for a United Nations capable of transforming itself to fulfil the promise contained in the opening words of our Charter: "We, the Peoples".
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- In the period from 1992 to 1995, my country was subjected to aggression, joint criminal enterprises, genocide against Bosniaks, crimes against humanity, and other war crimes.
- Ladies and gentlemen, We, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, call upon all UN Member States to focus on reaffirming relations between States on the basis of international law, ensuring respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, promoting peace and social progress, combating hate speech and all forms of discrimination, strengthening policies for the prevention of genocide, crimes against humanity, and other war crimes; advancing the rights of women and children, and strengthening gender equality, better health care, and education.
- Let me remind you that Serbia is the only state in the world that has been found by a UN court to have violated the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Transnational organized crime, continues to pose a serious threat to the security and development of small island states.
- Although the region doesn't manufacture these weapons, the availability fuels gun violence, organized crime, drug trafficking, and loss of life across our societies.
- Shrinanta Bager will bring the experience of the Caribbean to the Council, where the impact of illicit farms demonstrates how transnational organized crime can threaten the security and stability of states, even in the absence of traditional armed conflict.
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 3 sentences
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- At the same time, the state responsible for those crimes had a say in shaping the post-war order as a permanent member of the Security Council.
- The failure to hold anyone accountable for these crimes was not merely historical oversight.
- We may differ in our assessments of the extent to which the crimes of the communist system have been addressed.
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, the General Assembly's decision to move towards a convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity is an important contribution to addressing a longstanding gap in the international legal framework.
- The gravest crimes cannot be met with silence.
- The Gambia commends Ghana for its historic resolution on declaration of trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity and to go for the resolution on correcting the map at the General Assembly.
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- To organize crime and displacement.
- Where populations face genocide, crimes against humanity, or large-scale war crimes, the veto should not be allowed to paralyze the Security Council when action is most urgently needed.
- The trafficking of enslaved African and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans is the gravest crime against humanity.
Slovenia · Janez Janša · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Last year, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
- A legal mechanism that will enforce the prevention of crime, a mechanism that will enable a faster and more effective response to acts of genocide and other mass atrocities.
- Its veto cannot erase aggression or responsibility for international crimes.
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 3 sentences
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 3 sentences
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Transnational organized crime is broadening its capacity to act.
- Transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, trafficking in persons, weapons smuggling, asset laundering, cybercrime and illegal mining transcend national borders and undermine democratic stability, development and the rule of law.
- Artificial intelligence can boost cyber terrorism and other crimes that we cannot yet envisage.
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Dear Mr. President, regarding the Canadian representative's remarks, I must underscore that the real affront to international law is to make a desperate attempt through disinformation, misdirection, demonization, and the labeling of a country as the so-called principal threat to peace and security to whitewash the Israeli regime's crimes.
- But neither his words nor Canadian representatives' remarks can erase documented realities, nullify court findings and orders, whitewash crimes witnessed by the world, or change the reality that the Israeli regime is the exclusive principal threat to the peace and security.
- Furthermore, no amount of fabrication and falsehoods can absolve Canada and other Western countries, particularly the US, of their international responsibilities and individual criminal responsibilities of their officials for the complicity in crimes committed by the Israeli regime in our region.
Sudan · · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- This was documented by by the panel working on 1591 and the fact-finding mission, which works on documenting the effects of mercenaries and the crimes that happened in the Blue Nile, White Nile, Fashir, and other areas.
- Their claim to be neutral and innocent will not aid in covering their crimes and their atrocities, where they are in a bloodied partnership with the RSF, the UAE.
- The UAE, based on due diligence and the combating of international crimes, are responsible for stopping these crimes that are based and launched from its territory.
China · · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- In the course of history, Japanese militarists brazenly launched wars of aggression and committed numerous heinous crimes, including the illegal occupation of China's islands and reefs in the South China Sea, inflicting immense suffering on the people of China and the region.
- Back then, Japan joined the UN after recognizing its militarist crimes and accepting the UN Charter in its entirety.
- However, more than 80 years later, the Takeuchi government turns a blind eye to Japan's historical crimes.
United Arab Emirates · · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- We emphasize that the UAE does not need to be given lessons and lectures from the representative of a criminal regime that is committing war crimes against its own people.
- a regime that should be held accountable for its crimes against the Sudanese people.
- International reports and international investigations are being supported by more and more evidence that proves internationally prohibited chemical weapons were used by the Sudanese regime in this conflict in a blatant violation of the international law and the complete prohibition on the use of chemical weapons this is a war crime against the Sudanese people Mr. President the Sudanese people alone have the right to determine the future of Sudan through a comprehensive and credible political process with an independent civilian leadership that is not connected to the parties to the conflict.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- The International Court of Justice has issued legally binding provisional measures in the case entitled, and I quote, "Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip," end of quote.
- And in Myanmar, another crisis at risk of slipping from global attention, with escalating violence, mass displacement, and expanding transnational crime.
Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- It's as though there were no means of communication, as though Israeli soldiers had not boasted through both sound and visuals of their crimes.
- And as though images of the crimes against humanity committed in Gaza had not been circulated by an entire generation of young people across the world, east and west, from the very first day, the state of Qatar has done its utmost as a mediator to stem the bloodshed, to alleviate the suffering of civilians, and to release the prisoners and detainees until a ceasefire was achieved.
Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, the credibility of the United Nations depends on its ability to respond firmly to aggression, unlawful conquest, forced deportations, and crimes against humanity.
- Today, Too many seem unwilling to recognize and confront the past crimes committed by totalitarian regimes, including Soviet crimes.
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Vietnam's hosting of the signing ceremony for the UN Convention against cyber crime in Hanoi last year reflects our desire to make substantive contributions to global digital cooperation.
- Vietnam stands ready to work with partners to strengthen cooperation and build capacity in preventing and combating cyber crime so that people may live safely and benefit from technological progress.
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Reconciliation becomes possible when responsibility for the crimes of the past is acknowledged and their glorification rejected.
- While his criminal record reached its nefarious culmination in Srebrenica, his trail of war crimes stretches further back to the shelling of Croatian cities, the murder of civilians, the mining of dams, and the destruction of cultural heritage and industrial facilities.
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Syrian Arab Republic · Ahmad Al-Sharaa · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- We also support more than ever the efforts of the International Criminal Court to identify those responsible for the gravest crimes, and we condemn any act of aggression, once again and unambiguously, that violates the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a state.
- We have strengthened our support for UNICEF programs and are taking an active part in negotiations of the future Convention on Crimes Against Humanity, with particular attention to the protection of children.
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Terrorism, organized crime, cyber attacks, and illicit finance exploiting gaps between our national responses, drawing strength from the divisions that weaken collective action.
- We should all be afraid of a world in which we can no longer tell the victim from the aggressor, when our investment in propaganda shields perpetrators from justice, to the point that telling the truth becomes a crime.
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- In our region, the Indo-Pacific, we are elevating relationships that help to build sovereign capability and offer nations sovereign choice, free from coercion, so that our partners can address the big issues confronting them: economic security, human development, energy security, transnational crime, sovereign capabilities, trade and investment, and science and technology.
- We are investing in the multilateral system by elevating Pacific voices in shaping global decision making, working with them to advance their development needs and counter the transnational organised crime that is spreading across the beautiful Pacific Ocean that we share.
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Türkiye · · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- What can we say of the crimes committed in Libya, in Iraq, in Palestine, in Lebanon, in Cuba, in Venezuela?
- and in our Sahel, the Sahel, in the name of supposedly universal values, which nevertheless remain unpunished, those crimes, even while sovereign nations are threatened with sanctions for simply having wanted to decide on their own fate.
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Liechtenstein is also strongly committed to the International Criminal Court, the first permanent international court with jurisdiction over the most serious crimes under international law: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
- The Rome Statute also criminalizes the supreme international crime, the crime of aggression.
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- This Assembly has rightly and finally declared slavery as the gravest crime against humanity.
- It is an affront to this Assembly and to humanity to be forced to listen to a man justify apartheid and genocide when he is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Cambodia · Sokhonn Prak · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Artificial intelligence and digital innovation can accelerate development and expand opportunities, but their misuse can also deepen inequality, insecurity, and transnational crime.
- The conference called for a collective and coordinated action at national, regional, and global levels to disrupt and eradicate this crime.
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- How can we restore this trust while the Palestinian people are subjected daily to the most horrific crimes and violations and denied their most basic rights to life, security, freedom, and self-determination, while the international community remains unable to put an end to their ongoing humanitarian suffering or to enforce respect for international law and international humanitarian law?
- My country, Tunisia, condemns the continuing settlement policies of the occupying entity in the West Bank and the policies of persecution, starvation, and isolation in the Gaza Strip, and the crimes of genocide that claim more lives each day, in the absence of any accountability or any punishment.
Oman · Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- We also express our condemnation of the crimes of the Israeli occupation and its increasing violations against the Palestinian people, which have compounded the suffering of the Palestinian people in its struggle to obtain its legitimate rights and liberate its land within the borders of June 4, 1967, based on the two-state solution and relevant United Nations resolutions.
- Honorable Delegates, the Sultanate of Oman launched the Muscat Plan to counter hate speech, genocide, atrocity crimes, and incitement to atrocity crimes through an initiative inaugurated by His Excellency, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and with broad international participation here at United Nations headquarters in New York on the 11th of June 2026.
Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- While it's true that digital transformation offers considerable opportunities, it also entails risk, infringements of privacy, disinformation, cyber crime, and the irresponsible use of emerging technologies.
- Gabon therefore welcomes the adoption of UN General Assembly resolution 80/250 on the African slave trade, characterizing it as the gravest crime against humanity.
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Excellencies, we live in a context marked by conflicts geopolitical rivalries, economic uncertainty, climate change, forced displacement, inequalities, transnational crime, and rapid technological transformation.
- At the same time, in the face of threats posed by illegal fishing and transnational crime, Sao Tome and Principe will continue to work with the states of the region and international partners to strengthen maritime security and promote a sustainable blue economy, thus preserving our resources for future generations.
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 1 sentence
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 1 sentence
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 1 sentence
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Guinea-Bissau · Ilídio Vieira Té · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Mexico · Roberto Velasco Álvarez · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Nicaragua · Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke Whitaker · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 1 sentence
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 1 sentence
United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Thailand · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
China · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sudan · · Day 6 · 1 sentence