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Download CSVUnited States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 9 sentences
- Yet even after we agreed to a ceasefire for nuclear discussions, Iran promptly violated it with brazen acts of terrorism against civilian ships from other countries.
- maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world?
- It doesn't even enter my mind.
- We have more munitions than we could ever possibly even think of using, and we're building them at levels that we have never done before.
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 9 sentences
- But after that, he will once again make it clear to the world that even our Donetsk region is not enough for him.
- Someone in the Kremlin even put up a picture with the words, "On to Kyiv."
- After all of this, can you even imagine him without war?
- Today, even the richest countries in the world can't find enough missile interceptors.
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 8 sentences
- The boundary between peace and conflict is becoming ever less distinct, while the consequences of confrontation among global and regional powers increasingly affect even those countries that are not directly involved.
- Do not even try, because it is impossible for you to remember.
- Because such a decision was never made in the first place, and to make things even worse, no one ever even attempted to make such a decision.
- Admittedly, they are even more visible on the numerous battlefields around the world.
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 8 sentences
- But point I wanted to make is that even the more powerful states would ultimately pay a price, because hard power on its own cannot secure supply chains, protect populations from pandemics, or stabilise a warming planet.
- Even big powers need partners to secure their long-term national interests.
- These shared rules and norms provide predictability, they constrain the capricious exercise of power, and they maximize autonomy, even when power is unequally distributed.
- Under the GATT and subsequently the WTO, disputes, even between unequal powers, could be settled by adjudication rather than the exercise of unilateral coercion.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- But even after the ceasefire, the number of Gazans killed exceeded 1,500.
- I believe that with your support, this bridge will become even stronger.
- But even if we remain silent, history will not.
- Even if history remains silent, the truth will not.
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- War continues to destroy lives and communities even though the international community possesses more tools than ever.
- Even though the science is clear enough for us to act, and many of the solutions are already known.
- And, Mr. President, it's not fair to the majority of Member States who still believe in the promise of this body Even as we call for greater equity with the reform of the Security Council, we must equally reform the secretariat to better support peacekeeping and the resolution of conflicts.
- Last year we feared that there was a risk of conflicts in the Middle East widening even further.
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- Because a world without a place where all states, regardless of their size, can sit under the same roof and invoke the same principles would be even more dangerous than the world we see today.
- And ultimately, the capacity to uphold principles even when applying them is politically inconvenient.
- We have continued forward even when processes lasted longer than one generation of citizens could reasonably have expected.
- It is not enough to speak to them about values, we must show that those values have meaning and carry cost, even when defending them requires patience, political capital, or choosing the more difficult path.
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- Yet, Even as we meet, conflicts and confrontations remain our primary preoccupation.
- Even as this is underway, there is an urgent need to address the security of seafarers and supply of food grains and energy.
- Even as India progresses, we are conscious of our global responsibilities.
- Our troops have stood their ground firmly and professionally, even under pressure.
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- Cruelty that isn't even moved when it sees the ribs of a starving child or a hospital reduced to rubble.
- I've seen thousands of activists and public servants confront these reactionary powers, knowing full well that they're putting their professional careers and even their own lives at risk.
- And even then, they dared to imagine a better future.
- If only more of the leaders that came up to this rostrum this week had even half the courage and lucidity of Clara Campoamor.
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- This is the mission of Italian diplomacy, to build bridges, open new paths, and keep dialogue alive, even when it seems impossible, to work for peace, prosperity, and growth, because growth creates prosperity, and prosperity in turn consolidates peace.
- We have also recently approved new development projects for the area, and we will continue to play our part even after the mission's mandate has come to an end.
- Dear colleagues, 61 active conflicts mean that war is advancing even far from the television cameras.
- The risk is that new inequalities, new dependencies, and new concentrations of power, or even new forms of domination, will emerge.
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- We see that the international legal order is under pressure in more and more places, even though it is a very foundation to our freedom and prosperity.
- And even those who don't feel directly threatened because they think it doesn't affect them.
- And this growth in renewable energy has exceeded even the most optimistic projections from 10 years ago.
- Ladies and gentlemen, as I come to the end of my remarks, I have an even stronger sense of what Anne Frank was telling us.
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- Suspicion of governments, suspicion of institutions, suspicion of businesses, even, all too often, suspicion of each other.
- No community can succeed if we blindly believe that our neighbors are out to do us down, just as no country can succeed if it blindly believes that its neighbors, even those it may long have considered and seen as friends, are out to get it.
- We only stand a chance as humanity on getting a grip on technology that seeks to empower humanity if we collectively work together, acknowledging that the rules need to be set globally and they need to be stuck to even as they develop.
- It is that belief in the power of trust, even now, when it can seem a commodity in all too short supply, that convinces me that ultimately it, trust, will prevail.
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Even in the face of conflict and grievance, a region may be able to agree on principles that foster cooperation and prevent further conflict.
- No nation, not even the biggest ones, can go it alone.
- And even if a mightier state dominates in the one domain, a smaller state can respond in another.
- Even when actors claim to abandon the rules, they rather seek to replace existing rules with ones more to their liking.
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Our economies, societies, and technologies has become deeply interdependent, even as the temptation to turn inward returns with force.
- The price of a tank of fuel the price of a loaf of bread, even having a bread.
- The agreement proves that even today, we continue to build international law rather than dismantle it.
- That remains true even when we dislike their rulings or proceedings.
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, the theme of this session, Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation, a United Nations that Delivers for All, perfectly chimes with the concerns of those peoples aspiring to peace and progress, even while bombs and other devices of mass destruction are endlessly causing death and devastation in every corner of our planet.
- How to restore trust when for decades, propaganda has been used to maintain the idea of a poor Africa condemned to do everything it is told to do to survive thanks to the assistance of supposed international generosity, even while its resources, its riches are stolen and locked away for the benefit of other agendas.
- 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.
- A people that has decided to be free cannot be recolonized through fear, through deceit, nor even through savage violence.
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- An even more alarming sign is the collapse of the system of strategic stability.
- And to achieve this, they are prepared to sacrifice even the well-being of their own citizens.
- The great waterfall that the peoples of Zimbabwe have for centuries called Mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders, the colonisers "discovered" it 150 years ago and named it after their queen, who had never even set foot in Africa.
- Many of those officials have never even been to the conflict zones, and they are much further away from them than any volunteer on the front lines.
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- But even as those wars raged, the United Nations stayed and served.
- On my first point, we must be frank about where the challenges lie and what needs to be fixed, even when the necessary changes may prove painful.
- We cannot continue treating a chronic ailment with temporary painkillers when what we need is a deeper diagnosis and a more profound plan for transformation, even if that plan proves painful.
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- And how can we enforce it if we won't even call out its violations?
- And when soldiers watch, enable, and sometimes even participate in violence against civilians, this is no longer about a handful of rioters.
- And every time the international community looks away, Israel learns that it can go even further across borderlines and legal limits.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 3 sentences
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- We need a true bridge builder, a leader capable of engaging in dialogue with all parties, of bringing positions closer together, even when divergences appear unsurmountable, but also of showing firmness, courage, and independence when it comes to defending the principles of the United Nations Charter and ensuring that the collective interest prevails.
- But we must go even further.
- Our intellectual youth has become the target of sustained, deliberate, and organized pursuit by most of the wealthiest nations, even though our youth's first calling should be to serve their parents, their loved ones, and their homeland, who have invested so much in their education.
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- We choose our partners based on our shared values of democracy, human rights, and a rules-based international order, principles that underpin our friendship with Taiwan, a trusted partner that can contribute even more fully if given the space to do so.
- We acknowledge while not yet at the scale required, that the architecture is being built, political momentum is growing, and resources are beginning to mobilize, even amidst a complex geopolitical landscape.
- The promise of multilateralism is that even the smallest can be heard and that the many voices shaped by different histories and experiences can move toward a common shore.
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, even if today we have reservations about the effectiveness of the Security Council, we respect the achievements of the United Nations in maintaining and building peace in many parts of the world.
- This legacy has been stopped in many places, and perhaps even lost.
- attacks on places of worship, discrimination, violence, and even loss of life.
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 3 sentences
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Adapting is costly and takes time, even as we've seen schools destroyed by rising seas, saltwater poisoning our wells, and disease outbreaks linked to environmental change.
- Even before we were a UN member, we fought closely both to participate in UN Law of the Sea negotiations and to secure these rights in our constitution.
- In years to come, every nation in this hall may be told that the question or coercion upon Taiwan is an internal matter, somehow justified by an ancient UN Seeding Chart resolution, a resolution which doesn't even reference Taiwan.
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Regrettably, Mr. President, recently we have witnessed a dangerous surge of hostilities, yet amid the roar of missiles, the drones and guns, the voice for diplomacy must echo even louder and stronger.
- No Muslim can even dare to think of committing such a heinous crime.
- And let us prove that even in a divided world, humanity can still choose to stand together.
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- As a result, the United Nations has moved down the foreign policy agenda even of states who have a strong history of supporting it.
- In Ukraine, there are few prospects for a peace process, even though the aggression has now lasted longer than World War I, without even a nominal role for the United Nations.
- In the often repeated quote, the UN was not built to take us to heaven, but in an era where it might not even be able to save us from hell, this Universal Organization retains the unparalleled ability to meet us where we are.
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- They are also a reflection of the crisis of identity and relevance imposed on the United Nations Organization and even on this General Assembly, the most universal, democratic and representative body of the international community.
- More than 7,000 containers remain stranded in different ports, many of them loaded with foodstuffs, medicines and medical devices, and some of them have even been paid for by private Cuban companies.
- It's even gone as far as the United States exerting unseen pressure on sovereign governments so that they renounce the medical services they requested from us for the benefit of their respective populations, and which are offered by Cuban professionals altruistically because the US government is opposed to such cooperation.
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- For developing countries, particularly mountainous and landlocked developing countries, these pressures are even greater.
- But development also depends on something even more fundamental.
- Even the most difficult disagreements can be resolved when there is political will, dialogue, and mutual respect.
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- And in 2026, with even further reductions, the Global Peace Index ranked Jamaica the most peaceful country in the Caribbean.
- But even more foundationally, security must create the space for political stability, democratic governance, and credible elections led and owned by the Haitian people.
- Our own journey has taught us that vulnerability need not mean helplessness, that discipline creates resilience, that partnership multiplies possibility, and that even in moments of profound crisis, nations can choose to build forward.
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- And something more profound even, the fact is that we now have a society that has recovered hope, grounded in the ability to imagine a different future.
- And we have managed to reach the length and breadth of our country, even the most forgotten corners, and providing immediate care for anyone who needs it, regardless of wherever they live.
- Two, the problems even if they may seem impossible to resolve or not impossible to resolve.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- With even major technology companies sending warning signals that control of AI might slip out of humanity's hands, the time is ripe for collective action.
- At a time of growing global uncertainty and power politics, We need even more multilateralism grounded in international law, the UN Charter, and universal human rights.
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 2 sentences
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Meanwhile, Russia was targeting their energy infrastructure, trying to make them suffer even more.
- If we were to continue to talk about the two-state solution, but fail to back those words with deeds, that trust will fall even lower and our enemies will seek to exploit the alienation that follows from that.
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Czechia · Petr Pavel · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- I believe that dialogue can resolve even the most intractable of global problems.
- Mr. President, Excellencies, I agree that even as we demand a place at the table and call for a more equitable and just global order, As African leaders, we must also do what is required to put our own houses in order.
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- President, When he received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the great French writer Albert Camus defined the task of his generation thus: not to reform the world, but perhaps even greater, to prevent the world from destroying itself.
- Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of His Serene Highness Prince Albert II, I wish to reiterate the commitment of Monaco to the United Nations, to its Charter, and to the ideal that led to its establishment, saving future generations from the scourge of war, and building together a common house where even the smallest states can take their rightful place, because here the law protects them all.
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- This year also marks the historical and first deployment of Tuvalu police officers to serve in the UN mission in South Sudan, a deployment that confirms that even the smallest member of the UN can contribute meaningfully to international peace and security.
- With a temporary overshoot of the 1.5 degree Celsius target now inevitable, a fast, fair, just and orderly transition away from fossil fuel is even more urgent and require serious attention.
Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Artificial intelligence is changing something even more intimate.
- Let us ensure that no democracy wakes up after an election to discover that its people exercise their freedom of choice inside the world secretly designed for them by someone they could not see and they are not even aware that is the force behind their choice.
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Even though the decades-long conflict with Armenia brought immense tragedy to our people and left deep scars across our land, Azerbaijan has chosen to look ahead and turn the page of enmity.
- Ladies and gentlemen, as we inch closer to 2030, it is becoming even more apparent that the world remains off track in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- We place our trust in dialogue, negotiation and the mechanisms provided for under international law, because even the most complex historical differences can and must be resolved by peaceful means.
- restoring trust will depend on our ability to show that even in times of uncertainty and division, we remain capable of building together solutions that none of us could achieve alone.
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- We need even more multilateralism and even more UN, a stronger UN in defending its principles more effective in preventing and peacefully settling disputes, more representative in its decision-making structures, and closer to the realities of the people.
- Our objective is clear, dear friends, to make cartography an even more powerful instrument of knowledge, education, inclusion, and mutual understanding amongst people.
Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- I am pleased to note that even during these challenging times, Sri Lanka has continued to uphold its commitments to international law and ensure sanctity of human life and human dignity.
- while safeguarding our neutrality we placed Humanity above all else as president thean has reiterated we will never hesitate to protect Humanity if there are actions that must be taken to protect human lives we will not hesitate to take them under any circumstance this Mr. President is the Sri Lanka we wish to bring before the world, a small island nation with a big heart which believes that even in times of conflict and profound division, there remains space for humanity.
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 1 sentence
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Armenia · Nikol Pashinyan · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Slovenia · Janez Janša · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Qatar · · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Mauritania · Mohamed Salem Merzoug · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 1 sentence
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Guatemala · · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 1 sentence
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 1 sentence
China · · Day 6 · 1 sentence