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🇰🇪Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 10 sentences

• Global public debt reached a record $102 trillion in 2024. 8:00:40Copy
• Developing countries accounted for less than a third of that debt, yet paid about a trillion dollars in interest on debt in that year alone. 8:00:48Copy
• Put it differently, 46 developing countries now spend more on interest on debt than on classrooms and medicine. 8:01:04Copy
• The classroom competes with debt service. 8:01:33Copy

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 8 sentences

• That is where climate debt meets historic debt. 4:51:13Copy
• The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, which was held in Seville, Spain, placed debt and development finance close to the center of the international agenda. 4:55:55Copy
• We cannot fulfill the promise of a bus when carrying unsustainable debts Nor can we build resilience when the cost of capital itself penalizes vulnerability. 4:56:32Copy
• For too long, the international financial architecture has asked vulnerable countries how much debt can they carry. 4:56:49Copy

🇬🇭Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 5 sentences

• It requires dismantling the persistent engines of exploitation, unfair global trade, predatory resource extraction, discriminatory credit ratings, unsustainable debt burdens of the global south, and the continued export of raw materials from Africa while real value addition and job creation occur elsewhere. 1:08:48Copy
• African and Caribbean nations struck by climate disasters are forced to take on crippling debts to rebuild from floods and droughts that they did not cause. 1:10:38Copy
• governments are forced into a tragic choice to service predatory debt or to serve their people. 1:10:49Copy
• Mitigation support must be operationalized with predictable, non-debt-creating grants, not loans that further embed fragile economies. 1:17:41Copy

🇿🇦South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 5 sentences

• In the last year alone, African countries spent roughly the same amount on servicing debt as it needed to close our infrastructure financing gap. 12:03:21Copy
• This grim reality inspired South Africa's G20 presidency to focus on debt sustainability. 12:03:32Copy
• It supports multilateralist efforts to establish a borrower's club to counterbalance the power of creditors and calls for greater debt transparency and greater scrutiny of credit rating agencies. 12:03:46Copy
• To us, Mr. President, unsustainable debt betrays the promise of development and destroys the prospects for democracy. 12:03:59Copy

🇲🇼Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 5 sentences

• In addition, we cannot achieve sustainable development while drowning in debt. 2:14:45Copy
• Malawi, therefore, calls for immediate comprehensive debt relief and restructuring. 2:14:50Copy
• The current international financial architecture forces developing nations to choose between servicing predatory debts and investing in health, education, and climate resilience. 2:14:57Copy
• Major historical and current emitters must honor their climate finance commitments by providing accessible, predictable, grant-based and highly concessionable financing, rather than relying on debt-creating instruments that further burden vulnerable countries already struggling to cope with the consequences of a crisis they did little to cause. 2:18:05Copy

🇧🇿Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 4 sentences

• These pressures unfold alongside armed conflict, disrupted supply chains, declining official development assistance, and rising debt. 56:31Copy
• Public debt has been brought down to 66.6% of GDP and for the first time in a generation, it is on a path of sustainable development. 58:53Copy
• Beliefs have shown that debt can be reduced. 1:04:06Copy
• The multidimensional vulnerability index must become a working instrument across the international financial system in eligibility for concessional finance, in debt sustainability analysis, and in the decisions of the institutions that allocate capital. 1:04:50Copy

🇦🇴Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 3 sentences

• However, in order to achieve concrete results in these areas, It is essential to ensure affordable financing, debt relief, technology transfer, capacity building, and a greater participation of international financial institutions. 6:30:22Copy
• African countries spend far more resources on the exorbitant cost of debt servicing than they are able to invest in health, education, infrastructure development programs. 6:30:42Copy
• This situation clearly illustrates the need to establish predictable, affordable and additional climate financing without further aggravating the debt of developing countries. 6:32:02Copy

🇩🇲Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 3 sentences

• We then mobilize resources to rebuild what was lost, often through borrowing that substantially increases debt to rebuild what we could have made more resilient from the outset. 8:27:04Copy
• We call for stronger disaster clauses in sovereign debt instruments. 8:29:21Copy
• Conflict, climate change, Debt distress, inflation, and persistent inequality have pushed the goals further out of reach for many developing countries. 8:36:55Copy

🇲🇿Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 3 sentences

• It also requires a fair international financial architecture, more fair, sustainable debt relief, greater transfer of technology, international trade that is more balanced, and investments that can transform the potential into prosperity. 8:51:56Copy
• Your Excellencies, with less than four years remaining for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda, developing countries continue to face high financing costs, rising debt, and limited access to resources to invest in their own development. 8:58:45Copy
• We continue to advocate for a fair international architecture, more predictable and accessible financing, and sustainable solutions for the debt. 8:59:05Copy

🇲🇬Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 3 sentences

• The United Nations should therefore take into account the multidimensional vulnerability index so that access to concessional financing reflex climate shocks and external debt burdens. 54:45Copy
• It would also be wise to support durable debt relief. 55:14Copy
• This means advocating a for faster, more predictable and more inclusive sovereign debt restructuring mechanism. 55:21Copy

🇬🇲Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 3 sentences

• Respect for the United Nations Charter and international law is under visible strain, with developing countries facing intensifying debt burden, climate vulnerabilities, huge gaps between commitments made and implementation, and feeling of marginalization and inadequate representation in the global system. 4:32:44Copy
• Developing countries need greater access to affordable, long-term finance, meaningful reform of the multilateral development system, sustainable solutions to debt, stronger international tax cooperation, and decisive action against illicit financial flows. 4:42:19Copy
• LDCs continue to face structural constraints, including limited productive capacity, high debt burdens, climate vulnerability, narrow export base, technological gaps, and restricted access to affordable finance. 4:45:21Copy

🇪🇬Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• Developing countries are required to accelerate development, create jobs, finance green transitions, and adapt to crises, while simultaneously facing growing debt burdens, higher financing costs, and a shrinking fiscal space. 7:52:54Copy
• We need expanded concessional financing, greater mobilization and lending capacities for multilateral development banks, and accelerated debt workout in a fair and effective manner. 7:53:22Copy
• Countries should not be forced to choose between debt servicing and financing education, healthcare, food security, and essential infrastructure. 7:53:54Copy

🇼🇸Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• On debt, we need to build a sustainable, equitable, and fair debt regime, starting with a robust mechanism for debt restructuring. 8:49:49Copy
• Debt forgiveness must be linked to measurable progress on resilience building. 8:50:02Copy
• Samoa supports the incorporation of states contingent clauses in debt instruments, allowing for suspension during crisis. 8:50:15Copy

🇺🇳Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• And yet, so many throughout the developing world are being crushed by unsustainable debt, battered by disasters they did little to cause, and locked out of affordable finance. 38:11Copy
• For debt relief that is timely, effective, and just. 38:48Copy

🇵🇼Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• We need financing that reaches communities without adding debt, adaptation finance that is accessible to countries already bearing the cost of the problems they did not create, and full support of the loss and damage and the special circumstances of SIDS. 3:52:13Copy
• Those who contributed the least to this climate crisis yet confront the worst threats of rising sea levels must not be burdened with debt simply to purchase a life jacket for their survival. 3:52:54Copy

🇧🇼Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• Debt sustainability is a question of development and fairness. 4:47:36Copy
• When nations spend more to service debt than invest in education, job creation, or provision of healthcare, trust in the system erodes. 4:47:40Copy

🇱🇷Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• Mr. President, as we enter the home stretch of the 2030 agenda, Developing nations have been squeezed by unsustainable debt, shrinking financial space, and mounting external shocks. 3:07:18Copy
• Developing nation need concessional financing, debt sustainability, and predictable development capital. 3:07:55Copy

🇳🇬Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• Many developing countries devote substantial resources to debt servicing at the expense of education, healthcare, and infrastructure. 7:20:39Copy
• Nigeria, therefore, calls for reform of the international financial architecture, wider access to concessional financing, and debt sustainability frameworks that recognize developmental needs. 7:20:48Copy

🇧🇧Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• And when coupled with hunger and unsustainable debt and a warming planet, it becomes a veritable hell. 8:20:47Copy
• I repeat that for almost five years, the Bridgetown Initiative has consistently argued that climate resilience, debt sustainability, and access to affordable finance cannot be treated separately. 8:32:51Copy

🇲🇻Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• Technological dependence, external shocks, and unsustainable debt limits it. 52:28Copy
• We must implement the Cevier commitment and deliver on its promises on finance, debt, and reform. 52:42Copy

🇱🇨Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• Debt limits our ability to invest in people. 4:26:12Copy
• Meaningful debt relief. 4:28:59Copy

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau · Ilídio Vieira Té · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• We live in an interdependent world marked by growing uncertainty and by challenges that transcend borders, climate change, transnational organized crime, terrorism, structural inequalities, the burden of debt, and insufficient financing for development continue to undermine our efforts towards sustainable development. 7:32:16Copy
• Enormous gaps persist in financing for development and climate action, alongside high levels of poverty and social inequality, and a growing and unsustainable debt burden on the economies of developing countries. 7:38:08Copy

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• Including automatic debt service suspension clauses when disaster strikes. 8:12:12Copy
• Trust is restored when a national debt is restructured to be fairer. 8:21:26Copy

🇯🇲Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• Our debt, which once stood at more than 140% of GDP, was brought down to 62% before Melissa, with unemployment then at a historic low of 3.4%. 8:04:12Copy
• Developing countries cannot reasonably be expected to simultaneously finance climate adaptation, modernize infrastructure, strengthen social protection, manage debt, absorb external shocks, and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals without an international financial system responsive to their realities. 8:05:26Copy

🇱🇰Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• However, these developments do not fully reflect the vulnerabilities of countries exposed to debt and external shocks. 2:34:31Copy
• Sri Lanka once again calls for reform of the international financial system and for fairer rules governing debt and development finance. 2:43:44Copy

🇨🇬Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• The ambitions of our development at the Republic of the Congo and many other African countries are impeded by the burden of debt, inequalities in the international financial system, and the consequences of climate change. 3:00:47Copy
• The Republic of the Congo, therefore, calls for an ambitious international action on the issue of developing country debt, including through debt relief and, where appropriate, debt cancellation measures to free resources for SDG-related investments. 3:01:09Copy

🇺🇳President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• Those speaking most urgently about development were often the countries facing the heaviest debt burdens, the narrowest fiscal space, the greatest climate vulnerability, and the least voice in the institutions that shape the global economy. 7:03:17Copy
• Debt was spoken of more forcefully by those who bear it, not by those with the greatest ability to resolve it. 7:03:34Copy

🇺🇳President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• We must better prioritize on how we spend our resources by augmenting development assistance, addressing debt burdens, reforming the international financial architecture, fulfilling our CVIA and Paris commitments. 1:07:11Copy

🇧🇷Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Its exponential dissemination is increasing debt levels and destroying homes. 1:35:17Copy

🇨🇱Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• In the Latin American context, in which many nations were facing inflation crises and external debt, Chile distinguished itself because it continued to show fiscal responsibility, display high rates of growth and poverty reduction. 4:42:29Copy

🇸🇱Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Developing countries need fairer voting power, stronger representation, and increased capital within these institutions, together with affordable finance, concessional resources, and fairer debt treatment. 7:48:36Copy

🇸🇨Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• We require affordable, accessible, long-term financing, meaningful debt relief, and the full implementation of the multidimensional vulnerability index. 9:05:51Copy

🇻🇳Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• must be translated into concrete measures, expanding access to long-term financing at affordable cost, supporting countries burdened by debt, and amplifying the voice of developing countries in international financial and monetary institutions. 9:33:26Copy

🇹🇿United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Currently, when developing countries are accelerating progress, they are restricted by high borrowing costs, rising debt burdens, and limited access to affordable long-term financing. 9:45:43Copy

🇭🇷Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• while reducing its public debt to GDP ratio by 30 percentage points from its pandemic peak. 11:31:51Copy

🇧🇮Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Yet, many developing countries face considerable budgetary constraints, high financing costs, and a heavy debt burden. 1:12:44Copy

🇨🇫Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• They are a demand for justice for the future, recognition of the wrongs committed, restitution of cultural goods and archives, equitable cooperation, debt relief. 6:05:17Copy

🇳🇦Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Middle-income countries continue to face high borrowing costs, limited fiscal space, debt vulnerabilities, climate-related shocks, and persistent inequality. 7:17:42Copy

🇸🇿Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Furthermore, billions of people reside in countries where governments are forced to spend more on debt servicing than on healthcare or education. 9:23:51Copy

🇺🇬Uganda · Jessica Rose Epel Alupo · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Many developing countries lack sufficient financial resources to fund their development needs, with a disproportionate share of revenues directed towards debt servicing rather than critical public infrastructure and social services. 10:50:16Copy

🇪🇸Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• This is an historic debt that we must settle. 11:18:47Copy

🇨🇩Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• The Cevia commitment must now translate into better access to concessional financing, greater mobilization of lateral development banks, and debt relief mechanisms that protect our state's ability to invest. 12:08:50Copy

🇿🇼Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• This civil commitment must now be implemented through greater affordable, long-term and concessional finance, timely development-oriented debt treatment, and more effective channeling of special drawing rights. 27:31Copy

🇸🇴Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Following debt relief in Somalia, economy continues to grow on the foundations of strong reforms. 2:35:19Copy

🇵🇹Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• And we are investing in innovative solutions, such as agreements to convert debt into green investment. 6:05:26Copy

🇸🇳Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• There needs to be sustainable debt. 6:24:01Copy

🇬🇷Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Our public debt is declining faster than any other OECD country. 10:40:20Copy

🇱🇧Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• where some states spend more on servicing their debt than on the health of their citizens and the education of their children. 1:24:39Copy

🇵🇰Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Mr. President, developing countries are in dire need of timely debt relief, affordable long-term financing, and a stronger voice in global financial institutions. 5:25:01Copy

🇭🇹Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Its roots run through centuries of injustice, through the debt of-- and the debt of independence remains the heaviest burden to bear. 7:08:56Copy

🇦🇿Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• At the same time, Azerbaijan maintains one of the lowest levels of public external debt globally. 9:59:37Copy

🇵🇭Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Our metrics must evolve to capture the structural vulnerabilities, debt burdens, and inequalities that continue to affect middle-income countries. 2:42:37Copy

🇹🇳Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Tunisia believes that achieving climate justice Comprehensive development and pandemic preparedness and response requires reform of the international financial architecture to make it more equitable, inclusive, and fair, thus ensuring developing countries have easier and fairer access to financing and enabling them to invest in scientific research, technology, innovation, and digital transformation, thereby reducing their debt burdens, strengthening their resilience, and empowering them to rely on their own capacities in shaping their future. 6:09:52Copy

🇩🇯Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• In this regard, the CBI commitment represents an important step forward whose commitments must now be translated into tangible results, including through improved access to concessional financing, enhanced debt sustainability, and increased mobilization of public and private capital for development. 6:54:34Copy

🇬🇦Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Mr. President, if the United Nations is to deliver results for all, it cannot ignore historical debts. 7:33:31Copy

🇿🇲Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• High borrowing costs, limited fiscal space and heavy debt servicing obligations continue to constrain countries' ability to invest in climate action, health, education, infrastructure and development priorities. 8:51:03Copy

🇧🇫Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Reform of global governments must also transform the international financial architecture, more equitable representation for developing countries in international financial institutions, fair treatment of debt, access to real financing for development, more equitable international trade and respect for national priorities. 1:11:02Copy

🇸🇩Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• This is undertaken in support of efforts to implement a roadmap for debt relief. 3:21:45Copy

🇳🇿New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• In the face of contracting development finance flows and increasing debt levels, we need to ensure our ambitions are matched by more sustainable and predictable financing. 4:12:40Copy

🇸🇸South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Similarly, Developing countries must have a stronger voice in international financial institutions and decisions concerning development, financing, debt, climate, and technology. 5:43:13Copy

🇧🇯Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• worsening inequality, debt levels which are reducing the room for maneuver available to many states, as well as climate upheaval, which is hitting the most vulnerable the hardest. 6:44:15Copy