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190 sentences in 90 speeches for financing
Download CSVEgypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 7 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.
- We need expanded concessional financing, greater mobilization and lending capacities for multilateral development banks, and accelerated debt workout in a fair and effective manner.
- We need innovative financing tools.
- Countries should not be forced to choose between debt servicing and financing education, healthcare, food security, and essential infrastructure.
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- We need financing mechanisms that allow countries such as Dominica to move faster.
- We have become less successful at financing the transformation that vulnerability requires.
- We call for greater and easier access to concessional financing and grants for adaptation.
- We call for financing mechanisms that can be activated rapidly when disasters strike.
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- Mr. President, Grenada joins CARICOM in calling for the timely renewal of the mandate of the Gang Suppression Force, its full and rapid deployment in close partnership with the Haitian National Police, and the provision of the personnel, financing, equipment, and logistical support necessary for it to fulfill its mandate effectively with appropriate human rights safeguards.
- This requires Greater international cooperation in climate adaptation, disaster preparedness, resilient infrastructure, and accessible financing.
- Climate financing must become more accessible, predictable, and responsive.
- Grenada, therefore, encourages Member States, development partners and international financial institutions to advance vulnerability-informed approaches to development financing.
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- We call for effective implementation of the Security Council Resolution 2719, which must ensure a predictable, adequate and sustainable financing for African Union-led peace support operation authorized by the United Nations Security Council, because investing in Africa's capacity to prevent and resolve conflicts is also an investment in international peace and security.
- The voice of Africans must be heard in all circumstances, at all times, in strategic decision-making processes on issues of peace, global security, financing for development as well as climate issues and global governance of artificial intelligence.
- 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.
- This situation clearly illustrates the need to establish predictable, affordable and additional climate financing without further aggravating the debt of developing countries.
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- 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.
- Tanzania stresses that improvements must be made to ensure expansion of concessional financing, mobilization of private investment, improved access to development and climate finance, and giving developing countries a stronger voice in the global financial decision-making.
- Our experience shows that this is an agenda that Africa can successfully achieve, but it will require sustained political leadership adequate financing and stronger partnerships.
- Let us prioritize delivery on the pledges for climate action by increasing long-term concessional financing and development of newer technologies.
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- In this regard, Burundi believes that discussions on reform must also address the financial viability of the United Nations system by strengthening the predictability, transparency, and sustainability of its financing.
- We also call on the international community to lend greater support to African peace and security mechanisms in particular through predictable and sustainable financing for African-led peace operations.
- Yet, many developing countries face considerable budgetary constraints, high financing costs, and a heavy debt burden.
- Such a reform must in particular provide access to predictable, affordable, sustainable financing, which is essential for accelerating the implementation of the SDGs and Agenda 2063.
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- which requires predictable, accessible, and sustainable financing.
- with energy that crosses borders, infrastructures that transform neighboring communities into single communities, a transformation that requires fair and sustainable financing conditions.
- 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.
- We continue to advocate for a fair international architecture, more predictable and accessible financing, and sustainable solutions for the debt.
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Therefore, we cannot remain trapped in a cycle of financing the consequences of the conflict while neglecting the peacebuilding or responding to humanitarian emergencies while underinvesting in resilience and anticipatory actions.
- We therefore call for a predictable, sustainable support for Somalia's security transition, including adequate financing for African Union mission in Somalia.
- The disruption has also contributed to an estimated 40% decline in our customs basic revenue, a critical resource of financing Somalia's economic reform, growth, and poverty reduction.
- Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, financing is vital for development.
Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- Mr. President, we also call for a massive scaling up of concessional development financing.
- 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.
- Furthermore, the international financing architecture, specifically the IMF and the World Bank, must be radically overhauled.
- Global resources currently being funneled into destructive warfare should instead be redirected towards eradicating poverty, building schools and financing sustainable development.
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- And that is why I renew the proposal that the CARR has been making for several sessions now to establish a global conflict prevention and mediation mechanism with predictable financing and that is managed with complete transparency.
- that the loss and damage fund become fully operational and accessible, that adaptation financing should no longer be the forgotten stepchild of climate finance, and that the countries of the Congo Basin, the second largest lung of the planet, should finally be justly compensated for the services they provide to humanity by protecting their ecosystems.
- Transformation next requires peacekeeping operations with realistic mandates and predictable financing.
- We support strengthening the UN-African Union partnership, including through predictable financing for African-led operations.
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, one of the greatest obstacles to sustainable development is inadequate financing.
- Nigeria, therefore, calls for reform of the international financial architecture, wider access to concessional financing, and debt sustainability frameworks that recognize developmental needs.
- We also support innovative financing through private capital, blended finance, South-South cooperation, and strategic partnerships for sustainable development climate adaptation, and resilient infrastructure.
- We must exchange intelligence, strengthen institutional capacity, interrupt the financing of violence, and prevent weapons from crossing borders that our responses too often fail to cross.
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Adequate, predictable, and timely financing is essential to ensure the fund can fully deliver on its mandate and provide meaningful support to those most vulnerable to climate-related loss and damage, including non-economic loss and damage.
- Mr. President, Tuvalu, like other small island developing states, is highly vulnerable to climate and economic shocks, but the international financing architecture is ill-equipped to respond effectively to those shocks.
- And this is why access to rapid disbursement and crisis response financing is essential for the stability and resilience of small island developing states.
- Mr. President, in the Pacific, Pacific leaders have adopted the Pacific Resilience Facility, a regional financing mechanism to help our communities respond effectively to the growing impact of climate change.
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- We need a financial architecture that delivers timely and accessible financing to those who most need them.
- The financing and partnerships we build around ocean and nature-based solutions will help determine our future and sustain our people.
- And yet the financing to prevent such losses still falls short.
- The Pacific Resiliency Facility, our own financing mechanism for building community resilience, needs a further $328 million in pledges to reach its initial capitalization target of $500 million.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, the crisis in development financing is deepening.
- Concessional financing for developing countries is declining precisely when the need is greatest.
- Mauritius calls for a review of the criteria for access to concessional financing that reflect vulnerability rather than income per capita alone.
- It is of crucial importance to widen pandemic financing eligibility including the pandemic fund to formally incorporate the multi-dimensional vulnerability index.
Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- In this respect, we call for the full implementation of Resolution 2719 to ensure predictable, adequate, and sustainable financing for authorized African Union-led peace support operations.
- or showing moderate progress, while developing countries face an annual financing gap exceeding US $4 trillion.
- Development cannot flourish when its financing is prohibitively expensive.
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 3 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.
- We must close the financing gap for the 2030 agenda and meaningful advance implementation of the Africa's Union Agenda 2063.
- Global action on disaster resilience and predictable financing for a just energy transition is essential if international cooperation is to deliver for all.
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Excellencies, the world is facing a growing development financing crisis.
- The implementation of the multidimensional vulnerability index, MVI, in financing decision making is essential if we are to genuinely address the financial challenges facing developing countries.
- And we look forward to the pilot project to demonstrate that MBI can help developing countries in their financing challenges.
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- We demand accessible and predictable adaptation grant financing to support investments in resilient infrastructure.
- Mr. President and Excellencies, with less than five years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, The international community must respond with renewed political resolve, scaled up financing, and accelerated implementation.
- Doing so would unlock fair access to concessional financing that reflect structural vulnerabilities faced by small, fragile, and highly exposed economies, such as the small island states.
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- We therefore need stronger international solidarity and development financing that is more accessible, predictable and adequate.
- The Dushanbe Water Framework can help us write that chapter, a chapter focused on implementation, on financing, on technology and capacity, on stronger partnerships, and on protecting the sources of our water water, including the world's rapidly changing glaciers.
- Therefore, the Dushanbe process on countering terrorism and its financing has become an important platform for international and regional cooperation.
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Accordingly, countries with the greatest responsibility must fulfill their commitments regarding climate finance while maintaining a clear distinction between climate financing and development financing.
- 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.
- provided that it is accompanied by comprehensive and equitable global governance that ensure that responsible use and prevents the widening of the digital divide between North and South through capacity building, technology transfer, and adequate financing.
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- And yet, developing countries continue to confront a financing system that does not adequately reflect and respond to their development needs.
- Mr. President, regarding sustainable development finance and reform of the global financial architecture, it is widely accepted that sustainable development cannot be achieved without addressing persistent financing gaps facing developing countries.
- We call for an equitable global system that provides developing countries with affordable financing and policy space to transform their economies.
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Commitments on financing for development, including the severe commitment.
- 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.
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- All those who provide them with support, financing, or arms must be held accountable.
- It requires the provision of affordable and accessible financing, technology transfer, and genuine international solidarity, enabling developing countries to fulfill their responsibilities towards present and future generations alike.
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.
- 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.
Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- First, the deployment of the force that today is only funded up to a fifth of and only has up to a fifth rather of the troops authorized, second, fulfilling the arms embargo and sanctioning those who are financing and protecting gangs, and thirdly, strengthening the police, the armed forces, and the Haitian justice system so that the security can be sustained.
- And nevertheless, GDP continues to be used exclusively for concessional financing.
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- The global financial architecture must therefore evolve to reflect the economic realities of the 21st century including financing demands created by climate change, technological transformation, and the imperative for sustainable development.
- We call upon the United Nations and its financial partners to mobilize private capital through innovative and blended financing agreements that de-risk productive investment in developing economies.
Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- We ask that access to cooperation and financing be defined using more fair vulnerability criteria and that the international financial architecture support the efforts of those who are undertaking reforms.
- And today, they are threatened by illegal fishing networks that operate with the same logic and the same financing of other organized crime groups.
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Such reforms should create greater policy space and access to financing to enable countries to expand their economies through value addition to their natural resources, including critical minerals, for our people to have full benefit of our resources.
- It is through sustainable climate financing that we will be able to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 13 to combat climate change.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Following the African Water Forum held in Djamena in July, the DRC has proposed the creation of an African Coalition for Water Security, which aims to strengthen regional cooperation and mobilizing the financing needed to make water a driver of development and for the prevention of tensions.
- 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.
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- As the 2030 deadline approaches, progress towards achieving the sustainable development goals remains insufficient, while financing needs remain considerable in many developing countries.
- The fourth international conference on financing for development rightly recalled that the necessary resources exist.
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- To promote women entrepreneurship, particularly in the small and medium-sized industrial sector, the government has expanded opportunities for cash financing for women.
- For Bangladesh, as well as for all other countries undergoing this process, sustained support in areas such as assured financing, greater market access, technology transfer, and capacity building is essential to make the graduation process sustainable.
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- We further call for reform of the international financial architecture to make it more equitable, fit for purpose, and responsive to the needs of developing countries, as agreed at the Fourth Summit for Financing for Development, FFD4, held in Seville, Spain, last year.
- We therefore call for enhanced cooperation in technology sharing, capacity building, and sustainable health financing to build resilient health systems capable of responding to current and emerging challenges.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 2 sentences
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.
- 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.
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Large ocean states need access to capacity building, marine technology, scientific knowledge, and financing, while benefits from marine genetic resources must be shared fairly.
- We therefore call on the World Bank, the IMF, development banks, climate funds, and every partner here to incorporate NVI into the architecture of financing.
Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- I expand concessional financing to build enduring economic resilience.
- Secretary-General Guterres will be warmly remembered for his tireless advocacy for international financial architecture reform, climate justice, sustainable development financing, and the digital and dignity of the countries in special situation.
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Developing countries continue to face high financing costs, external vulnerabilities and limited fiscal space.
- 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.
Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Mr. President, Gabon, in its capacity as member of the African Union's Peace and Security Council, stresses the urgent need to implement UN Security Council Resolution 2719 on the financing of peacekeeping operations.
- These must be properly valued and give rise to fair, adequate, predictable and sustainable financing.
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- And at the first ever Canada Investment Summit, Earlier this month, we secured nearly $500 billion in new financing commitments to investment in Canada.
- In order to respond to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Sudan, we recently announced financing to the tune of $120 million to help the affected people.
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- We had put in place disaster risk financing, including catastrophe insurance, and an independently sponsored catastrophe bond.
- Last year, from this very podium, Prime Minister Andrew Holness called for a global war on gangs, a coordinated international effort capable of matching the reach, financing, and sophistication of transnational criminal networks.
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- In this context, we call for the multidimensional vulnerability index to be translated into concrete eligibility criteria for concessional financing.
- In the face of the rapid advance of artificial intelligence and the digital transition, Sao Tome and Principe calls for international cooperation that enables developing countries to access the technology, knowledge, infrastructure, and financing they need.
Cameroon · Lejeune Mbella Mbella · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- This is why financing for development should not be considered as some kind of alms or kindness It is an investment in stability, shared prosperity and collective security.
- For this reason, Cameroon calls for the diligent and comprehensive implementation of the commitments made in Seville in July of 2025 on the issue of financing for development, and this specifically implies engaging in the necessary reforms of the international financial architecture and the multilateral financial architecture in order to give countries of the Global South a more fair shot.
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- It's now time to act, to provide equitable financing and achieve economic justice.
- 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.
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 2 sentences
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- South Sudan, therefore, reiterates its call for predictable and accessible climate financing, investment in adaptation, resilient infrastructure, renewable energy, agriculture, and technology transfer.
- Similarly, Developing countries must have a stronger voice in international financial institutions and decisions concerning development, financing, debt, climate, and technology.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- We call for stronger regional early warning system, pre-positioned humanitarian assistance, rapid access to climate and disaster financing, and greater investment in resilient infrastructure and food and water security.
- It must address the financing and capacity constraints facing small delegations.
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- There is indeed another source of fragility at the international level, and that is the fragility of development financing.
- Therefore, Benin calls for ongoing transformation of the international financial architecture, the objective being to allow developing countries to access more accessible, predictable financing, financing that is better tailored to their development trajectories.
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Uganda · Jessica Rose Epel Alupo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 1 sentence
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 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
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Pakistan · · Day 4 · 1 sentence
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 1 sentence
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 1 sentence
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Turkmenistan · Vepa Hajiyev · Day 6 · 1 sentence