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🇩🇲Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 11 sentences

• The United Nations provides shelter and protection to people enduring conflict displacement, and natural disaster. 8:18:49Copy
• We have chosen not only to rebuild after disaster, but to build differently, build better, build stronger. 8:21:54Copy
• Resilience should never begin after the disaster. 8:22:53Copy
• Resilience must begin before disasters. 8:22:58Copy

🇳🇵Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 10 sentences

• The Bhotekoshi-Trishuli disaster was not just a local tragedy. 11:29:33Copy
• Nearly three years ago, standing in the shadow of our Mount Everest, the Secretary General of United Nations warned humanity about the madness and impending climate disaster. 11:29:44Copy
• As in rebuilding after a post-disaster like 2015 Gorkha earthquake, we count on your solidarity and support. 11:31:48Copy
• But we must also understand why this disaster matters beyond Nepal. 11:31:55Copy

🇬🇩Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 6 sentences

• But experience has also taught us that resilience cannot begin after disaster strikes. 5:15:31Copy
• This requires Greater international cooperation in climate adaptation, disaster preparedness, resilient infrastructure, and accessible financing. 5:15:53Copy
• Our objective should not simply be to help vulnerable countries recover from the next disaster. 5:16:52Copy
• Our vulnerabilities are shaped by exposure to climate change, natural disasters, external economic shocks, and other circumstances that cannot adequately be captured through income per capita. 5:17:37Copy

🇻🇺Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 6 sentences

• It is about whether a child in Tanna can attend school, whether a farmer in Malekula can bring a produce to market, whether a family in Toba has access to reliable electricity, whether a community in Penama can recover quickly after a natural disaster. 6:19:47Copy
• Vanuatu has experienced cyclones, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and economic shocks and other disasters. 6:21:15Copy
• We cannot rebuild every road, bridge, school, and hospital after every disaster from domestic resources alone. 6:21:41Copy
• Therefore, when we speak about climate finance, development finance, disaster resilience, and sustainable development, we are not asking merely for charity. 6:22:01Copy

🇯🇵Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 5 sentences

• Several large scale disasters have occurred and continuously caused extreme damage around the world this year, including in Japan. 10:49:03Copy
• Natural disasters are becoming more severe and frequent, Japan is striving to become the world's leading nation in disaster risk reduction. 10:49:12Copy
• To share Japan's expertise and technology in disaster risk reduction and contribute to global efforts in this field, I appointed a new Minister of State for International Disaster Risk Reduction Cooperation in my cabinet reshuffle last week. 10:49:20Copy
• I myself, in 2015, as Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, attended the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction, where the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction was adopted. 10:49:35Copy

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

• In November 2025, South Africa classified gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster, recognizing that dealing with this scourge demands exceptional measures from our population and will require international partners to continue to fight this through technology and other means that must support our measures to fight gender-based violence in our country. 12:04:38Copy
• Climate disasters and extreme weather patterns threatens our people. 12:05:08Copy
• Global action on disaster resilience and predictable financing for a just energy transition is essential if international cooperation is to deliver for all. 12:05:40Copy

🇸🇧Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• They can accelerate sustainable development, transform education and healthcare, strengthen disaster preparedness, and open new economic pathways for developing countries. 4:03:08Copy
• Disasters are more frequent and more devastating. 4:04:45Copy
• A single natural disaster can erase years of investment and progress and push the nation backwards. 4:12:53Copy

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• Small states cannot continue borrowing merely to replace what climate-related disasters repeatedly destroy. 8:11:09Copy
• Including automatic debt service suspension clauses when disaster strikes. 8:12:12Copy
• Mr. President, friendship also forms -- is a form of trust, and I wish in this august body to recognize our country's 45 years of diplomatic ties and friendship with Taiwan that has seen us work together in development, in disaster response, education, and in public health. 8:18:25Copy

🇯🇲Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 3 sentences

• We had put in place disaster risk financing, including catastrophe insurance, and an independently sponsored catastrophe bond. 8:01:06Copy
• A country does not become less vulnerable to hurricanes and other natural disasters because its per capita income has crossed an arbitrary threshold. 8:03:33Copy
• We built macroeconomic stability, strengthened investor confidence, and created the fiscal space that ultimately helped us respond to the greatest natural disaster in our modern history. 8:04:25Copy

🇰🇷Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• These words of the second Secretary-General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjold, compel us to ask ourselves: Is the United Nations today capable of saving humanity from war, poverty, and disaster? 7:03:42Copy
• We hope that opportunities will emerge for us to work together in the international community in areas such as public health, disaster response, and the climate crisis. 7:14:09Copy

🇨🇭Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• climate change and the increase in the number of disasters, humanitarian crises, inequalities, and also technological upheavals, notably artificial intelligence, which are often advancing faster than our collective ability to assess their implications. 8:44:13Copy
• Because our institutions do not exist for their own sake, they exist for the people, for those who live in fear of conflict, for those who have lost their home following a disaster, for those seeking work or building a future for themselves, for the children whose lives depend on access to education and the new opportunities we are creating today. 8:53:10Copy

🇵🇱Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• Ladies and gentlemen, Today we must show courage while remembering that sometimes courage alone is not enough, that without prudence courage can lead to disaster. 6:46:11Copy
• In Lebanon, Poland is developing the operational capabilities of the Lebanese civil defence units in the area of disaster and natural disaster response. 7:01:01Copy

🇷🇸Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• They told us that they had attacked a sovereign, free and independent country in order to prevent a potential humanitarian disaster. 8:25:45Copy
• The humanitarian disaster did not occur, and I have still not managed to hear or see where a similar example has occurred anywhere in the world. 8:25:54Copy

🇲🇬Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• Mr. President, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, we must acknowledge that the challenges that we have faced for decades, namely food insecurity, disease, armed conflict, or natural disasters, are still with us. 38:56Copy
• Multilateralism is a privileged forum where states unite in a shared responsibility, enabling them to define common and appropriate solutions in the face of challenges such as epidemics and climate disasters, or armed conflicts arising from contemporary geopolitical rivalries and latent multidimensional tensions. 50:32Copy

🇸🇴Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction estimates that every $1 invested in proactive measures, resilient infrastructure, or early anticipatory actions saves between $3 to $15 in future damages and the response costs. 2:30:07Copy
• The Independent National Human Rights Commission established to strengthen the protection and the promotion of human rights, and the Somali Disaster Management Agency establishment, which is on the front line of responding to the humanitarian crisis in Somalia. 2:38:08Copy

🇬🇲Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• However, we are responding with determination by investing in renewable energy, coastal resilience, mangrove restoration, disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, water security, and nature-based solution. 4:43:27Copy
• We have also adopted our first national disaster mitigation plan. 4:43:59Copy

🇫🇯Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• The Pacific Resilience Facility is the first climate and disaster financing facility owned, governed, and hosted by the states it serves. 6:39:56Copy
• National income alone cannot capture remoteness, disaster exposure, and the repeated burden of rebuilding. 6:43:45Copy

🇰🇮Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• Through our long-term national development mission, the GIDA vision for 20 years, our national priorities, and the Tamusindano policies, we continue to invest in resilience infrastructure, water security, coastal protection, disaster preparedness, renewable energy, and community-based adaptation. 30:25Copy
• The Pacific Resilience Facility is a Pacific-led, Pacific-owned mechanism that strengthens the region's capacity to finance climate and disaster resilience. 32:32Copy

🇼🇸Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• Resources intended for education, Health, water and social protection are now diverted to disaster recovery. 8:47:49Copy
• and investment in resilience today will reduce the cost of disasters tomorrow. 8:50:08Copy

🇰🇿Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• Climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and the growing frequency of natural disaster are placing increasing pressure on our societies and economies. 10:19:20Copy
• The recent devastating floods in the mountainous regions of Nepal and China remind us of the growing risk associated with water and climate-related disasters. 10:22:03Copy

🇱🇦Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• Mr. President, despite severe external economic shocks and natural disaster, the Lao economy continues its steady recovery through strong national ownership and strategic international partnership. 2:11:55Copy
• Fourth, protecting natural resources, building climate resilience and mitigating disaster risk. 2:13:10Copy

🇮🇳India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• Initiatives like the International Solar Alliance, the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, or the Global Biofuels Alliance are all making steady progress. 4:51:43Copy
• India has sent medical shipments to conflict zones, epidemic locations, and after natural disasters. 4:52:03Copy

🇲🇼Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• Mr. President, Malawi therefore calls for enhanced, predictable and easily accessible climate finance with greater emphasis on adaptation and disaster risk reduction. 2:18:35Copy
• For developing countries, including Malawi, AI offers opportunities to strengthen agricultural productivity and food security, improve healthcare and education, enhance climate resilience and disaster preparedness, expand financial inclusion, and improve the efficiency of public service. 2:26:54Copy

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

• The erosion of trust is reflected in unresolved conflicts, humanitarian crises that outpace available resources, increasingly frequent climate disasters, widening inequalities, and technological advances that are moving faster than governance. 2:32:10Copy
• Cyclone Dittha was one of the worst natural disasters in Sri Lanka's recent history and devastated several parts of our country. 2:34:57Copy

🇰🇵Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• The effects of disaster-prone abnormal climate gave rise to a succession of extreme high temperature, droughts, heavy rains and floods in many countries and regions, seriously threatening the survival of mankind. 3:44:35Copy
• On the other hand, Japan, an A-class war criminal that inflicted untold sufferings and disasters upon mankind in the last century, is taking advantage of the present international turbulence. 3:52:05Copy

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

• 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

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

• and the heartbreaking natural disaster in Nepal and China was not just an isolated event, but yet another horrible climax to our collectively insufficient response to climate change. 1:01:44Copy

🇺🇸United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• These are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all, that robots are going to attack us, and that everything is going to be a total disaster. 2:20:00Copy

🇯🇴Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Economic disparity, food insecurity, climate change disasters. 2:33:53Copy

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• As we all know, global problems and disasters often have their origins at the local level. 3:44:50Copy

🇶🇦Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• We also make efforts to address the humanitarian suffering of people caused by wars and natural disasters, while supporting human development in numerous countries across our region and beyond. 4:04:29Copy

🇳🇷Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• The true cost of our geographic isolation, the fragility of our limited economic base, or the devastating impact a single disaster can have on our people and our progress. 9:20:12Copy

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

• Climate change, natural disasters, pandemics, and emerging technological risk continue to pose direct threats to the lives of the people and their livelihoods, and to the development and stability of many nations. 9:28:21Copy

🇨🇿Czechia · Petr Pavel · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• The Czech Republic has offered its support and stands with those working to rebuild their communities, but support after disaster is not enough. 2:19:07Copy

🇵🇼Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Endorsed by the Pacific leaders, the PRF is the first Pacific-led, owned, and managed regional financing facility dedicated to climate and disaster resilience, and the first international financial institution collectively owned by the Pacific focused on turning resources into real community-level resilience. 3:53:50Copy

🇨🇾Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• And through Cyprus Aid, we have provided humanitarian assistance to countries facing natural disasters. 4:11:59Copy

🇵🇦Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• People trafficking organizations linked to drug trafficking used and abused this space to transport more families, and the result of it was women and children, children ending up orphaned in one of the worst social disasters that my country can remember. 6:11:54Copy

🇲🇿Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• on the path to our national independence as a people in the pursuit and building of peace in Mozambique and in the national reconstruction, in the responding to natural disasters and in the promotion of sustainable development. 8:45:53Copy

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

• Yet, at a time when conflicts persist, inequalities deepen, climate-related disasters intensify, and countless communities continue to struggle against poverty and insecurity, the international community must renew its commitment to global cooperation. 9:22:13Copy

🇭🇳Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Our response is not simply to react to these disasters. 9:52:06Copy

🇻🇪Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Elsewhere, we are looking to ensure the material, moral, and spiritual recovery of our homeland that has been beset by a devastating natural disaster. 10:33:22Copy

🇺🇿Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• It didn't dry up due to a natural disaster. 12:35:58Copy

🇬🇭Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• 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

🇨🇴Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• The government that had barely started its work was forced to confront one of the greatest natural disasters in our recent history. 4:55:28Copy

🇧🇧Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• We have found that it has great capacity to detect disease earlier, predict disasters, improve agriculture, and expand access to education and public services. 8:25:45Copy

🇦🇺Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• When countries facing disaster and conflict reach out for help, Australians always respond generously with humanitarian assistance. 11:03:25Copy

🇹🇻Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Mr. President, Tuvalu extends its deepest sympathy and condolences to all communities worldwide that are affected by ongoing armed conflicts and recent natural disasters, including the devastating floods in Nepal and Myanmar, the earthquake in Colombia, and the tragic loss of lives at sea in Vanuatu. 3:08:00Copy

🇱🇨Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Through the many challenges and disasters our region has faced. 4:34:23Copy

🇧🇸Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• The people who bear least responsibility are asked to adapt first, pay more, and recover from disasters they did not cause. 6:34:48Copy

🇹🇴Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• The Pacific loses an estimated of $500 million every year due to natural disasters such as cyclones, flooding, Early warning systems give communities time to prepare and reduce these losses. 8:31:39Copy

🇲🇺Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• We also call for enhanced, accessible and predictable climate finance accompanied by comprehensive capacity building and disaster risk management for the most vulnerable. 11:12:00Copy

🇸🇪Sweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Further, the veto should never be used to prevent the UN from acting against serious violations of international law or in humanitarian disasters. 12:26:00Copy

🇫🇲Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Micronesia stands in solidarity with all nations that have endured the recent waves of natural disasters around the world. 34:34Copy

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

• A single disaster can erase decades of hard-won progress. 2:40:37Copy

🇮🇸Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Conflicts, poverty, Poverty, drought, natural disasters, and the growing effects of climate change are pushing millions of people from their homes. 4:02:31Copy

🇲🇾Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Yet too often, we respond only after disaster has arrived. 7:01:40Copy

🇮🇩Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• We have lived through financial crisis, a global pandemic, climate disasters, geopolitical rivalries and conflicts around the world. 8:57:31Copy

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

• Natural disasters and the growing impacts of our changing climate are becoming more severe and more visible. 4:02:36Copy

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Today, countries that contribute least to climate change must borrow at high cost and rebuild from disaster given overwhelmingly by emissions that we did not have anything but that comes from afar. 4:50:52Copy

🇩🇰Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Extreme weather and climate-related disasters are hitting record highs. 5:49:30Copy

🇺🇳President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Climate disasters are erasing hard-earned development gains and deepening inequality. 7:04:02Copy

🇰🇵Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Japan, an A-class war criminal state that inflicted untold sufferings and disasters upon mankind in the last century, is taking advantage of the present international turbulence to accelerate its attempts at rearmament with an unprecedented commitment, including the revision of the peace constitution, abandonment of exclusive defense, reformation of the military structures and arms buildup. 8:20:37Copy