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Download CSVSecretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 17 sentences
- Building a networked future begins with the recognition, especially by superpowers, that their power isn't so super, that their power has limits.
- Will we act to ensure that power is governed by law or by force, by cooperation or coercion, by responsibility to young people and future generations, or indifference to their fate?
- Looking ahead, our future will be shaped by how we address four great tests of power: the power over war and peace; The power that concentrates wealth and drives inequality.
- It is the recognition, as enshrined in the UN Charter, that force cannot be the final arbiter of whose lives, rights and future matter.
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 12 sentences
- This is why the Maldives comes before this Assembly with a clear message: every state, large or small, must have the freedom and capacity to shape its own future.
- A sovereign future, and that future begins with peace.
- The right to a sovereign future must belong to all.
- For the Palestinian people, a sovereign future means freedom, dignity, self-determination, and the right to live their security in their own state.
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 10 sentences
- witnessing Montenegro's transformation from a newly independent state into a country helping shape the Balkans, defined not by the conflicts of the past, but by the opportunities of the future.
- On the geostrategic front, Montenegro has paved the path towards our future in the European Union, which is now within our reach.
- Much work remains ahead of us, but the foundations have been laid for a society in which talent and effort open doors, and a country where young people can imagine their future at home.
- It demonstrated how far our country has traveled and how close our European future has become.
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 9 sentences
- As he prepares to turn this important page of his life, I wish him, on my own behalf and on behalf of the entire Burundian people, every success in his new endeavors, as well as good health and a future filled with serenity and prosperity.
- During this dialogue, I sensed the enthusiasm of young people and women to build a community with a shared future in the spirit of Ubuntu.
- It must be better represented and more closely involved in the decisions that shape the future of our planet.
- The African Union is deeply concerned by the persistence of conflicts and crises that continue to cause massive population displacement, destroy infrastructure, and deprive millions of children of their right to education and to a better future.
Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 9 sentences
- We do not ask the world to mourn every Yemeni child whose future has been stolen.
- Rather, we ask how many more children must be deprived of their future before the world stands resolutely with the Yemeni people and their struggle to restore their state and their stability.
- The heroes of the Yemeni armed forces and all military formations, legitimate military formations, are on the ground confronting these Houthi terrorist militias in defense of our people, our land, our sovereignty, and our future.
- You will never be outside the national project of a Yemeni state, nor outside its future.
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 9 sentences
- And restoring that trust in that architecture is critical, particularly for small island developing states like Tuvalu, whose sovereignty and future are anchored in that very architecture.
- The challenge is not to stop transformation, Rather, the challenge is to manage transformation in a manner that protect people, preserve what is valuable, and give every country the capacity to determine its own future.
- For Tuvalu, sea level rise is not a future threat, it is a present reality.
- The declaration affirms that Tuvalu's nationhood is not negotiable, that our maritime rights are not erasable, and that our people should never be forced to choose between their homeland and their future.
Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 8 sentences
- We affirm Ukraine's right to self-defense its sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders, and the right of its people to decide their own future.
- If taking territory by force becomes an accepted way of settling disputes, every smaller country will have reasons to worry about its own future.
- People also need the chance to build the future where they live.
- Hungary will continue to support development that helps communities build that future based on their own needs and priorities.
Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 8 sentences
- We emerge from a world devastated by war with a shared conviction that never again should humanity leave its future to war and division.
- And we share a founding promise to build a future of peace.
- A nation is resilient when families can provide for their households, when farmers can produce when workers can find decent jobs, and when children can learn, grow, and dream about their future.
- Most importantly, this also means investing in the future of our people, ensuring our children receive quality education and ensuring our people have access to essential healthcare.
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 8 sentences
- It's not a future tragedy.
- They just want peace, security, jobs, freedom, and a safe future for their children.
- On the contrary, its legitimacy is achieved when the organization is really truly able to preserve and save people's lives and to ensure a decent future for all people and this is something that El Salvador has firsthand experience in Mr. president for decades my small but great country was known for a reality that it seemed impossible to change the scourge of violence was deeply entrenched in our society.
- 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.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 8 sentences
- It was a call to build the future.
- The message of a national celebration was one of unity, national pride, resilience, and determination to build a stronger, more prosperous Vanuatu for future generations.
- Protection of it is essential for the future of our people.
- Yet, some of these global issues have already escalated to a level where ensuring sustainability for future generations has become a critical concern, highlighting the urgent need for improved management of our ocean resources.
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 8 sentences
- I would like to convey to you the warmest greetings of the Beninese people and to carry before you the voice of these people, a voice resolutely committed to peace, dialogue and multilateralism, a voice which yearns to fully partake in our collective reflection about the future of our organization and the future of our world.
- You can't just wait for the future.
- A more effective United Nations should be better positioned to prevent conflicts, to respond to humanitarian crises, to shore up development, and anticipate the transformations which are already shaping our future.
- We stand convinced that while we might have different national trajectories, these trajectories should nevertheless converge towards the same end goal, giving all people the necessary conditions for them to be able to forge their future, living in peace, dignity, and stability.
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- And our future is very, very bright.
- Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?
- In addition, in the very near future, massive munition plants will be opening.
- And we're working closely with the leaders of Venezuela to forge a much better future for the Venezuelan people.
Bhutan · Tshering Tobgay · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- It is being deliberately created by Bhutan, within Bhutan, on sovereign Bhutanese territory for the future.
- Jobs, opportunities, enterprise, a future.
- Our people have embraced GMC as a people's project, an investment in our children, our economy, and our shared future.
- That electricity will power GMC and the industries of the future.
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- Behind every child killed, a future that disappears.
- We have strengthened our support for UNICEF programs and are taking an active part in negotiations of the future Convention on Crimes Against Humanity, with particular attention to the protection of children.
- It is a promise, the promise that the place where a person is born should not determine their opportunities, life expectancy, or future.
- And we have once again confirmed that climate change is not a challenge for future generations.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- Mr. President, Secretary-General, Excellencies, distinguished heads of state and government, it is my privilege to convey from this rostrum, on behalf of His Excellency, Mr. Felix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the DRC and head of state, the Congolese vision of the future of our organization.
- For the DRC, this session is another occasion to reaffirm its faith in a multilateralism based upon the unwavering quest for peace and justice, which paved the way not to the prosperity of a select few, but to the creation of a true common horizon for peoples and generations of the future.
- Africa has proven itself over time to be a demographic, diplomatic, and geopolitical power, a vital one, but it still remains inadequately represented where decisions are being made about the world's future.
- Because the peace that we seek cannot be limited to a ceasefire, it ought to also help our country regain full control of its future by transforming the wealth that has too often gone to fuel conflict into tools for development and shared prosperity.
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- The theme of this 81st session calls upon us to assume our shared responsibility for our destiny and for that of future generations with clear vision.
- This priority commitment serves the entire population, particularly women and children, while providing our youth with the means to build their future with confidence and contribute to national development.
- Driven by a firm political determination to build a brighter future for this dynamic youth, we recognize the importance of an education system which is fully aligned with labor market realities, an essential condition for sustainable development.
- Our aim is to focus on future-oriented sectors, while redefining our indicators of success to prioritize the practical acquisition of skills and medium-term employment outcomes.
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- and within every uncertainty, the possibility of shaping a better future.
- Ultimately, the future of Haiti must be Haitian-led and Haitian-owned.
- It must become an instrument for the future.
- For it is in times such as these, when wars rage across borders, when the shadow of existential threats falls across the future of human civilization, when the old certainties are dissolving before our eyes, that multilateralism must rise.
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 7 sentences
- And yet today, as we prepare for the future, millions of people are living through war or under the threat of war.
- It must be a foundation on which people can plan their future.
- Excellencies, The future international order will not be shaped only on battlefields or in diplomatic halls.
- Artificial intelligence is not longer a subject of the future.
Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- What kind of world do we want to bequeath to future generations?
- We often talk about young people as if they came from the future.
- Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to ask ourselves if we're really preparing a future that is going to earn their trust.
- Our interests may differ, but our future is shared.
Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude and respect to all member states of the United Nations and the staff of the UN Secretariat for their dedication to a prosperous future for all of humanity.
- Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, and distinguished delegates, the United Nations, which has a history of upholding human dignity and pioneering the way for future generations, now stands at a grave crossroads.
- Younger people around the world in particular are facing growing anxiety about their employment and their future as the pace of change becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with.
- In 2015, the international community adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as our shared commitments for a bright future.
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- Trust grows when promises are honored, when the law protects everyone, when institutions serve their people and when citizens can see a future for themselves.
- which we committed to in the pact for the future.
- Sierra Leone stands with Africa, the Caribbean, and the wider African diaspora in advancing this cause, not to remain captive to the past, but to build a more just and equitable future.
- A young person without work, opportunity, or a stake in the future becomes vulnerable to the recruiter, the smuggler, and the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean.
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- The very future of humanity is at stake.
- The future demands that the choice be freedom, democracy and equality before the law, and that those who make that choice be held accountable for it.
- Moreover, the future is bright, not only because our electricity supply is abundant, stable and 100% renewable, but also because our region possesses land, energy, critical minerals and, most importantly, its extraordinary people.
- We believe that Paraguay has much to contribute to that future.
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- The Pact for the Future provides an important guideline, but it must be supported by real reform.
- Bulgaria, as a member state of the EU, calls for the holding of a debate on this topic and on the broader goal of the future of a post-war Europe, as well as the Europe before the war.
- This is the only way in which the two peoples can look forward to a decent life and a peaceful future.
- The rights of the child, access to education, equal participation of women and girls, in societal processes, as well as the full inclusion of young people in these processes, are vital for building societies in which each of us has a voice in decisions that determine our future.
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- The common African position as articulated in the Ezulwini Consensus and the SALT Declaration has also been reaffirmed in the Pact for the Future, which recognizes Africa as a special case.
- Mr. President, the Pact for the Future, which was co-facilitated By Namibia and Germany provides an ambitious framework for transforming global governance and addressing contemporary and emerging challenges.
- While the pact gives due consideration for the interest and the needs of the future generation, its implementation has not been as effective as we had wished.
- For Namibia, effective implementation of the key commitment of the Pact for the Future would be beneficial in accomplishing Namibia's national priorities, namely agriculture, sports, youth empowerment, quality education and training, creative industry, health and social welfare, land, housing, and sanitation.
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 6 sentences
- In other words, that our common future required common institutions.
- Mr. President, peace must be built and nurtured through institutions that command public confidence, societies in which trust can be restored and justice pursued, and a future in which women and young people have a meaningful voice and economic opportunity is within reach.
- A part in which institutions are strengthened, citizens are heard, differences are resolved peacefully, and democratic gains are consolidated for future generations.
- We are expanding opportunities for women and young people, improving lives, and strengthening the human capital upon which our future depends.
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- We must have a place where AI's future is decided.
- Mister President, the future of multilateralism also depends on its leadership.
- Mr. President, few bridges carry greater historical meaning or future potential than between Africa and the Caribbean.
- Our shared history must help build a shared future to capital, trade, technology, knowledge, culture, and coordinated diplomacy.
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- It is a pleasure to be here representing Cabo Verde in this forum where the world comes together to discuss the challenges we share and the future we want to build.
- The 2030 agenda, the African Union's Agenda 2063, and the Pact for the Future point us in one clear direction, sustainable development centered on the people capable of transforming global commitments into concrete changes in the lives of populations.
- because school is where society begins to shape its future and education is a powerful development strategy.
- It's a question of protecting national territory, the economy, the culture, and the future.
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- That is why, in the face of this rupture, Canada's goal is to achieve greater strategic autonomy, greater autonomy to make our own choices and to determine our own sovereign future.
- Alongside the European Union, we are building an alliance for the future.
- As an energy superpower, we are providing energy supplies to many of our partners around the world while supporting the transition to a more environmentally sustainable future.
- Canada is an Arctic nation, and the Arctic is central to our identity, our security, and our future.
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- And what future awaits humanity if imposing fait accompli and once again becomes a tool for managing conflict or determining their outcome.
- and our capacity to preserve and develop the order we established after two world wars, so that future generations would not suffer the scourge of war.
- Only the Libyans are entitled to take decisions related to the destiny of their nation and their future.
- Ending this is an essential element in creating the conditions necessary to end division and build a Libyan state that is single and unified and stable, a Libyan state that is able to determine its own future with the will of its people.
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- There, I appealed that it is essential for countries to acquire the capabilities to freely determine their own futures and resilience across economic, social, and security domains.
- For the sake of the future of both Japan and North Korea, I am prepared to engage in dialogue and take concrete action to establish a mutually fruitful relationship in accordance with the Japan-DPRK Pyeongyang Declaration.
- To protect the lives of present and future generations, all states must take serious action to tackle global warming.
- This policy will remain unchanged in the future.
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- I stand before this assembly for a people whose future depends on a healthy ocean and a stable climate, and the sovereign right to determine their own path.
- We have called for ambition that matches science, demonstrated that ocean stewardship can protect while supporting livelihoods and insisted on a stronger voice for small island states in decisions that shape our future.
- Protecting our future requires expanding prevention, enhancing cessation support, and enacting strong policies to diminish the appeal and affordability of these harmful products.
- Our energy future reflects a larger truth.
Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- They are principles that transcend time, the essential ingredient for the present and for the future.
- The Pact for the Future and the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals are also part of the effort to ensure that multilateral cooperation can respond to the needs of our time.
- This cannot and will not be the future for my country and my people, ever.
- I therefore call on my Turkish Cypriot compatriots to perceive our future together as the opportunity for prosperity.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- We want a long-term relationship with jobs, training, technology, infrastructure, productivity, a future.
- What Bolivia wants is a firm and strong future, respecting our traditions and our original and indigenous peoples, but also giving them opportunities to grow with dignity and to develop our nations.
- Ladies and gentlemen, there are other challenges which I believe to be inseparable from the future of our nations.
- There will be the United Nations, Bolivia and countries in the future if we give that meaning to our young people, a meaning and a purpose in their lives, the very reason for being.
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- We are losing the capacity to staff our own future.
- For the Pacific, climate change is not a future scenario.
- As a large ocean state, Fiji's identity, economy and the future are inseparable from the ocean.
- Let us build a Pacific that remains an ocean of peace, united in purpose, confident in its identity, and strong enough to shape its own future.
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Excellencies, we refuse to surrender our technological future to paranoia.
- Mr. President, Africa is ready for the future.
- Such a partnership requires a United Nations that evolves with the aspirations of the present and future generations.
- Our generation has the privilege of shaping the future and the responsibility to answer for it.
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Trust weakens when principles are applied selectively, when countries have little say in decisions that shape their future, and when promises made in this Assembly fail to improve lives beyond it.
- And representation must also mean that women have a meaningful voice in the decisions that shape our common future.
- No country can write its future alone, and no international order can earn lasting trust if too many countries feel that the system is written for them but not with them.
- A rule-based international order with shared ownership in shaping our common future is the condition that will help rebuild that trust.
Georgia · Irakli Kobakhidzhe · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Developments in different parts of the world are challenging existing arrangements and raising questions about the future of the international order.
- The divisions of today cannot erase that history, nor should they determine the future of our children.
- It must reach the people living in our occupied historic regions as well, who remain and will always remain part of our shared future.
- Today, we see a genuine opportunity to turn a new page and build a more peaceful and interconnected region based on shared commitment to a better future.
Slovenia · Janez Janša · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- They had a future, but they were not allowed to live that future.
- All nations, as well as the United Nations as a whole, have great responsibility as well as an enormous opportunity to prevent atrocities in the future.
- Ukraine must participate fully in decision concerning its future.
- Ukraine's future belongs in the European Union.
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- I stand here to renew my country's commitment to the United Nations Charter and principles, and to present Iraq's vision for its future, its region, and the world at this critical juncture.
- Despite these difficulties that have made our country over several decades an arena of war and conflict, today, We are confidently presenting our vision for the future.
- Ladies and gentlemen, Iraq believes that our responsibility towards the peoples, their security and stability requires working to end conflicts through negotiation in order to secure a safe future and prevent future wars.
- Given the high proportion of young people in our society, we seek to make them a true driving force of the future economy through education, the diversification of employment opportunities, support for entrepreneurship, and the advancement of digital economy.
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- To destroy the international settlement without any idea of what comes next would be an act of wanton destruction that would rightly never be forgiven or forgotten by the tens of millions whose future it would betray.
- The people of Israel need to have trust that Hamas will be disarmed and that they will play no future role in the governance or security structures of Gaza.
- So, Malta remains thoroughly committed to the implementation of the Pact for the Future and all of its associated actions.
- If we don't, if we don't realize that mutual suspicion can only lead to mutual destruction, if we don't realize that closing our minds to those who don't share our worldview limits our chances of solving the world's biggest problems, If we don't realize that limiting dialogue only to those who are like-minded in reality can only drive us further apart, we face a very bleak future indeed.
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- Her dedicated leadership, skill, and tenacity of purpose in strengthening multilateral cooperation during a period of profound global uncertainty gave us hope that the future of this organization can be secured when all nations work together for the common goal of leaving no one behind.
- Mr. President, we must acknowledge that climate change is no longer a future threat, but a present reality.
- The implementation of these outcomes without further delay, together with the Pact of the Future, will undoubtedly help restore eroded trust.
- Mr. President, as we contemplate the future of community of nations, we must renew our collective commitment to a United Nations that is more inclusive, effective, and responsive to modern times global challenges, and one in which developing countries, particularly African nations, have a stronger voice in global decision making.
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- We remain committed to strengthening water security, climate resilience, and sustainable management of water resources while working with the international community to ensure that climate and water action delivers tangible benefits for our people and future generations.
- We have a wealth of young Africans with potential to become entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, farmers, innovators, and artists, and indeed, future leaders.
- Recognizing continued vulnerability to epidemics, Zambia calls for the expedited conclusion of negotiations on the pathogen access and benefit sharing annex under the World Health Organization pandemic agreement, alongside strengthened access to technology and preparedness capabilities to detect and respond to future health threats.
- By inviting our people, particularly women, girls, and young people, we are investing in Zambia's future.
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- Climate change is not waiting for the future.
- But, Excellencies, gratitude for the past must now match by courage in shaping the future.
- It is about the future direction of this organization.
- It begins when young people see a future, when solidarity provides food, education, employment, and opportunity.
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- For South Sudan, therefore, restoring trust must mean strengthening partnership between the United Nations and member states, respecting national ownership, recognizing progress while acknowledging remaining challenges, and ensuring that international engagements ultimately strengthen the capacity of the nations to assume the responsibility of their own future.
- The responsibility today is to consolidate peace, strengthen institution, and create conditions through which the people of South Sudan can once again determine their political future through democratic means.
- That is the future they deserve.
- And under the leadership of His Excellency, President Salva Kiir Mayardit, South Sudan remains committed to the long journey of transforming the sacrifices of liberation into peace, dignity, development, democratic future for which the people of South Sudan have waited for generations.
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- More than a billion people lifted out of poverty, standards of living transformed, colonial empires brought to an end, independent nations emerged, peoples gained the right to shape their own future.
- Excellencies, in Syria, the fall of the brutal Assad regime offers a historic opportunity to build a brighter future for all Syrians.
- And in the occupied West Bank, settler violence and settlement expansion threaten the daily lives of Palestinians, and undermine the prospects for a future Palestinian state.
- It creates jobs, opportunities, and hope where people live, allowing them to build a future at home increasing stability and mutual prosperity.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Now it needs to focus on issues crucial for the future of humanity.
- They challenged the past to envision a future of peace.
- Change means moving towards a more participatory future and more achievements.
- They will decide between democracy and denialism, if Brazil will move towards a future with more opportunities or go back to a past of exclusion.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- our African brothers and sisters will look to their future with as much confidence and hope as the citizens of prosperous countries?
- We are shaping our future with the European Union precisely through this strategic vision.
- Either we'll deepen uncertainty through fear, through conflict and isolation, or we'll build the future together through justice, solidarity, and common will.
- I invite our friends listening to us in this very hall today and from every corner of the world to embrace this shared vision of the future.
Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Therefore, I would like to reiterate, Kyrgyzstan firmly adheres to international law, justice, and the protection of human rights, and supports the multilateral system based on mutual respect, balance of interest, and responsibility toward future generations.
- It means the duty to carefully preserve what our ancestors have entrusted to us and to pass it on to future generations.
- Safe, just and sustainable future can be built only through collective action.
- The destiny of our planet and future generations is the responsibility of each and every one of us.
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- At the same time, we have our sovereignty, of course, but at the same time, we say that the energy of the future must serve humankind, and energy must not be held hostage by monopolies or actors that do not abide by the rules.
- Latin America is the continent of the future, and those of us that lead the continent today are ready to give momentum to that change.
- It's not only a leadership problem, one of the present or the future, but rather a problem in terms of action.
- But I have one more thing to say, that is that a future can be built without being held hostage by others' decisions.
Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, My government's priority is investing in our people and our future generations.
- We take our seats under that name, proud of where we have come from, confident in who we are, and determined to carry our name into the future.
- We are not merely guardians of the ocean, but rightful participants in its future.
- We will work with every partner who respects our sovereignty and our right to decide our own future.
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Present disregard for international law and the principles of the Charter reinforced by the sense of impunity, too often dominates over adherence to the rule of law and cooperation between countries for a better future.
- We have provided food aid to hospitals in Gaza and stand ready to offer our digital transition expertise in its future reconstruction.
- Above all, we need action, action that strengthens the UN as a main actor responsible for multilateral cooperation and prepares it for future challenges.
- Let us preserve that matters, adapt where we must, and design the future together.
Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- And today we are experiencing a crisis, a profound crisis, and recovering security means giving people about their future for a young person to be able to choose university rather than being trapped by a criminal gang for a family to open a business without fear for a company to invest and create jobs and for institutions to respond to the needs of citizens and not to elicit interests therefore the success of an economy is not measured only by how much production grows but rather how much is able to reduce poverty is measured in young people with decent jobs and children with a better education, and citizens who are able to build their future with dignity.
- Latin America and the Caribbean is a region with a lot of talent, energy, food, strategic resources, and above all, youth that is resolved to building a different future.
- One of the greatest challenges of the future is artificial intelligence.
- Ecuador has come to this assembly to defend collective solutions because no country can build a safe, prosperous, and sustainable future alone.
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Neo-imperial and neo-colonial policies are, in essence, an attempt to return to a world in which the borders, security and future of states and nations would be decided not by the states and nations themselves, but by other states that consider themselves stronger and predestined to dominate.
- However, it cannot overlook one more dimension of responsibility, the responsibility for the world we will leave to future generations.
- It is our duty to future generations to leave them a clean, safe environment.
- That is why, in the center of our reflection about the future of the world, What must remain is human and their dignity.
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- For others, it means food, water, energy, or the future of their children.
- Slovakia sees its engagement in UN reform as a part of its responsibility to this organization, including through UNAT and the implementation of the Pact for the Future.
- We should support every serious diplomatic effort that can help end Russia's war against Ukraine and build a safe future for our neighbor.
- But the future of the United Nations will not depend on one person alone.
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Investment must underpin our future.
- In the Pact for the Future, Member states agreed that redressing the historical injustice against Africa must be a priority in the Security Council reform.
- They ask the same fundamental question, whether the institutions that govern our common future will reflect the sovereign equality they proclaim or preserve inequalities inherited from another age.
- Not a United Nations of some nations, not a system in which power determines whose voice matter, but a United Nations worthy of its name, where every nation has a voice, every people have a stake, and every child has a future.
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- We did it because the majority of us believed in this common promise, because we were convinced that peace, sustainability, equal opportunities were not ideological positions, but rather a comprehensive part of the future of humanity.
- And even then, they dared to imagine a better future.
- At the end of the day, the future of our children is more important than the pockets of these tech oligarchs.
- And we're not going to do this because we believe that delivering for our children because we know that in a few years, future generations will look back.
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- It must have the ambition to imagine the future and recognize its limitations, overcome its paralysis, and reform its instruments without abandoning its deepest raison d'etre, to be the place where conflict gives way to dialogue, confrontation to diplomacy, and fear to the search for shared solutions.
- We will continue to support Ukraine for as long as necessary while working towards a just peace and towards a future in which Russia can once again be a partner in dialogue rather than a threat to Europe.
- We have opened our universities and research centers to young Palestinians because a future state also needs a future generation of leaders.
- Turning back is neither possible nor desirable, but neither can we hand over our future to technology without rules.
Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- On the contrary, striving for peace means taking responsibility for the future.
- we choose young people who are determined to pursue education, acquire a profession, and define their own future, because we do not measure the true strength of a statehood by its military or economic capacity.
- If a child is not born healthy and doesn't receive a quality education, we put the future of not just one person, but the entire society at risk.
- The future, however, will judge us not by the opportunities before us, but the ways we use them.
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- the possibility for people to live, to work, to educate their children, pursue their aspirations and to look to the future without fear.
- We come from a country that is diverse in its opinions, but one that is deeply committed to the possibility of building a common future.
- And we believe that this combination, diversity of ideas and cohesion around the future, can also serve as our contribution to the international community.
- The future of humanity will, to a large extent, depend on our ability to understand that we are profoundly interconnected.
Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- which is very complex and difficult, but I wonder if it makes sense for all of us to be so dependent on speculation and the volatility of financial and futures markets, which affect the entire production sector, even when the instability originates only from a portion or a limited period of that production.
- Protecting human dignity by combating poverty and safeguarding fundamental rights, food security, and the future of the new generations.
- That is why Portugal looks to the future with renewed commitment to the mission of the United Nations, with confidence in our collective capacity and with hope that it is together that we can build and leave behind a better world.
- And we are going to do it and leave to future generation a better world than the one we are living in.
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- To start with, here in the UN, improved African representation in the Security Council at the very least, because If we want to preserve the UN for the future, we must change the balance of power in line with the changing times and modernize our institutions.
- Ladies and gentlemen, cooperation is the cornerstone of our history, and cooperation is what the world expects of us, now and in the future.
- Or do we decide together, within the logical setting of the United Nations, what our future should look like?
- For decades, the Netherlands has been working with partners around the world to develop climate-smart agriculture and future-proof water management solutions.
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- It can have no role, I repeat, no role in Gaza's future.
- At the same time, reconstruction needs to move forward with Palestinians themselves taking ownership of Gaza's future.
- Actions that are illegal under international law and undermine the viability of a future Palestinian state cannot be allowed to continue.
- Ukraine must have a decisive say in its own future, and Europe cannot be absent from these negotiations.
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- Eight decades ago, the citizens and leaders of our nations made a solemn promise to future generations.
- It is a world in which all countries have the freedom to decide their own future, and all countries have their decisions listened to.
- We uphold international law, including the UN Charter, and support bold, practical reform to ensure the UN can best fulfil its mandate into the future.
- We will continue to speak out against actions that damage that prospect of peace, including illegal settlements in the West Bank, just as we continue to oppose any role for the terrorists of Hamas in Palestine's future.
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- It destroys clean energy infrastructure that we need to fuel our future.
- People of our country be allowed to build their future instead of constantly rebuilding their past.
- It is about whether the future of mountain communities, small island states, landlocked and least developed countries, and generations yet unborn count equally.
- The Nepal floods signal a future shaped by rising climate extremes.
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Yet it also raises challenges for the future of work and for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
- It is trust in institutions that protect rights, in a judiciary that guarantees justice, in an economy that restores prosperity to the people and gives young people the opportunity of a better future.
- Lebanon's future will not be decided on its behalf nor may its security and stability become the price of settlements concluded in its absence third our position on the war has been clear from the outset we want it to end we want the ceasefire consolidated we want Israel to withdraw from all Lebanese territory up to our internationally recognized borders in accordance with the 1990 with the 1949 General Armistice agreement and as firm by resolution 1701 we want the release of all our detainees, the safe and dignified return of our people to their villages and towns, and the reconstruction of what the war has destroyed.
- Africa and the Arab world cannot remain without permanent representation on the Council, nor can small and medium-sized states remain mere spectators to decisions that concern their security and their future.
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- We have developed our national adaptation plan, working across ministries and with our people to determine how to make a safe future.
- Engineered by rising seas, it now protects 8,400 people and critical energy infrastructure, reduces annual coastal flooding losses, and anchors resilient future development on Ebeye, including schools, housing, and the proposed new hospital, while providing a safe public space that strengthens community well-being.
- Mr. President, my nation underscores the importance of the Law of the Sea as a key legal pillar of our future.
- As a region of vulnerable island nations, we rightly define our own security priorities, and these deeply cut across every sector, placing a safe future for our youngest generation beyond grasp.
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Saint Lucia stands with the Cuban people in the hope for a better future, supported by the friendship and solidarity of the international community.
- The digital future must not be owned by a few.
- The people of Saint Lucia remain confident in our collective capacity to shape that better world even as Saint Lucian, Nobel Laureate, Sir Derek Walker, reminds us that the future happens no matter how much we scream.
- Our task is to meet that future with courage and purpose.
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 4 sentences
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- To restore trust, every Member State, large or small, must have a voice in shaping this organization's future and a stake in its success.
- The financing and partnerships we build around ocean and nature-based solutions will help determine our future and sustain our people.
- For Tonga, resilience means taking greater control of the forces shaping our future and turning the resources within our geography into greater self-sufficiency.
- However, the forces shaping our future are not solely environmental or economic.
Mauritania · Mohamed Salem Merzoug · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Defending the United Nations is a defense of the right of all peoples to determine their future and participate in decision making those decisions that define their destiny.
- As 2030 approaches, we call for accelerating the implementation of the SDGs, and we support the UN80 initiative as well as the Pact of the Future.
- People's mobility strives for a better future, better job opportunities, better development.
- We have to leave to the future generations a better world than the one we've inherited.
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- livelihood, and future prosperity.
- Our national efforts must be matched by strengthened international cooperation, including technical assistance, predictable finance, and collective actions across the plastic life cycle to prevent pollution at its source and protect the blue Pacific for present and future generations.
- Strengthening youth voices in decision making, expanding skills training and pathways to decent work, supporting youth-led climate and community action, addressing substance abuse and mental health, and ensuring that young people have the opportunity to lead to serve, and to build a future for themselves and their nation.
- In the spirit of camaraderie, let us choose cooperation over division and build a peaceful, just, and sustainable future in which every nation can thrive.
Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- The Holy See strongly emphasized the urgent need for an immediate and total cessation of hostility as a prerequisite for any serious engagement in restoring and building the future.
- The Holy See, while calling for the end of the conflict, remains concerned about the sporadic episodes of violence which prevent internally displaced persons from returning to their place of origin and force them to continue living in a situation of suffering and food insecurity, with no prospects of a better future.
- The Holy See encourages all Haitians to prioritize dialogue in the pursuit of the common good, and renews its appeal to the international community to accompany the country with determination and generosity on its arduous journey towards peace, democracy, and a renewed confidence in the future.
- The Holy See will continue to play its part in building a better future for all.
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- It must be diligently built, and it must be steadfastly protected, and it must be passed on to future generations.
- It is precisely in this spirit that Tajikistan initiated the proclamation of 2027 2036 at the International Decade of Strengthening Peace for Future Generations, which was adopted by the General Assembly resolution on 25 June 2026.
- It was achieved through dialogue, through compromise, and through the determination to put the future of the country above division.
- That is our responsibility to our peoples, to one another, and above all, to future generations.
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- This cannot be a future of multilateralism.
- Partners involved in the decisions that will shape our future.
- Mr. President, most nations in this hall are not great powers, yet Decision taken by few can shape the future for all.
- These are the qualities we will need to face our future as an organization.
United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- The UAE has also stood ready to support nations undergoing positive transformations, such as Syria and Lebanon, as they move towards a secure and stable future.
- The future of Sudan must be decided solely by the Sudanese people, and the international community must press the leaders of Port Sudan authorities and those of the Rapid Support Forces as parties to the conflict to engage seriously with international initiatives.
- These efforts embody our firm commitment to turning the challenge of water scarcity into an opportunity for innovation and joint international action, including through the Mohammed bin Zayed Water Initiative, which harnesses innovation, partnership, and investment to deliver lasting, sustainable solutions for present and future generations.
- We are building a society in which women participate fully, equally, and meaningfully, and in which young people are genuine partners in shaping their future.
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 3 sentences
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Our duty, today more than ever, is to hold firm here at the United Nations in order to make decisions to further our common interests so that people can choose their fate freely their development model, choose their future, to refuse their sovereignty being taken hostage by unjust forces, by fear.
- Today's challenges, future challenges, ones we do not know about yet, challenges we haven't yet tackled.
- France will continue providing unstinting support for the legitimate aspirations of the Ukrainian people to peace, security, and to a future.
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- From what we have observed, we do not discern encouraging signs regarding the likelihood of reaching any peace agreement in the near future in the wars between Russia and Ukraine, in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East, and in the Persian Gulf.
- The important decisions adopted under the Pact for the Future and the severe commitment can help advance development programs in Africa.
- We, political leaders and rulers of today, will be judged in the future by our ability to replace confrontation with dialogue, predatory competition with cooperation, exclusion with solidarity, and the force of arms with the force of law.
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 3 sentences
Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- It also means being able to make a real contribution to decisions that will affect one's own future.
- Every society must be able to shape its future in accordance with its history, needs and priorities.
- 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.
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, there can be no way to sustain peace and development without effectively addressing the challenge of climate change, which is no longer a future threat.
- 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.
- Since then, this regional dispute has embarked on an irreversible course, breaking with the past and looking to the future with a view to its final settlement.
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- so as to avoid being threatened, to avoid its future being threatened.
- We seek to think about a worthy future in which security, fairness, justice, human dignity will become unalienable rights for all people, for all humans.
- A future in which no people are driven to the sidelines, no voice is lost in the chaos of power, and no power will have the right to determine the future of a people other than those people themselves.
Czechia · Petr Pavel · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- The future legitimacy of the United Nations will depend on it.
- Nor we can allow an unchecked race for technological dominance to determine the future of AI with the pressure to move first, pushing safety, oversight, and responsibility aside.
- We need concerted global action, both to limit further damage and to adapt to changes that are already affecting our lives and will shape the lives of future generations.
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- But the seeds of future wars were sown, just as NATO and Gorbachev inked the post-Cold War arrangements.
- All the while, the brandishing of these weapons reinforces adversity and fear, which create a high barrier to achieving rational cooperation necessary to fulfill our responsibility to future generations.
- As with any situation of this nature, the people directly interested must be consulted on the future status.
Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- And the obligation of the international community is to make it possible there in their country for children to be able to go back to school and for Haitian youth to be able to have a future in their own country.
- So we're calling for a process like the one that was initiated in the Path for the Future to achieve a common framework to measure progress beyond GDP.
- The future is no longer a distant prospect.
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- We also believe that implementing the Pact for the Future, together with the UN80 initiative, offers an opportunity to translate our shared commitments into practical improvements in the functioning of the United Nations.
- We manage transformation when change creates opportunity rather than deepens inequality, when developing countries have a meaningful voice in shaping the system that affect their future.
- Let us ensure that history remembers this 81st session for the trust we built, the promises kept, and the future created.
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- that the fact that in the past we tore down and violated the charter by which we opened a Pandora's box which is impossible to be closed and today we would like without consequences to return to the future.
- To that, either there is no answer or they supposedly give us some well-intentioned advice and tell us not to look to the past, but to the future.
- At a time when the next enlargement of the European Union does not appear likely in the near future, we have sought to remain constructive and to propose practical ways of overcoming the current impasse.
Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- We commend his defense of multilateralism as well as efforts to advance dialogue for conflict prevention and resolution, sustainable development, and the pact for the future.
- It ensures that all have an equal voice under international law and an equal role in shaping our shared future.
- Zimbabwe is ready to play its part in building the future we all want.
Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- And it has targeted all the basic necessities of life and the future of entire generations.
- Palestinian people remaining on its own land, determining its future for itself, and the Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel, and the Palestinian-Israeli peace that paves the way to regional integration, cooperation, prosperity, and security for everyone.
- And we will not allow anyone to decide our future on our behalf.
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- And throughout this long war, our goal never wavered -- to win, to win with unwavering resolve, to win with unrelenting courage because this is Israel, one nation fighting for one future, left and right, young and old, religious and secular.
- And I ask them, what will this future, what will this behavior, what will the world hold for you?
- We seize the future.
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- The trust of peoples, for its part, is nourished by tangible results and by the certainty that the decisions taken on their behalf genuinely serve their security, their dignity, and protect their future.
- That is why Cote d'Ivoire welcomes the progress achieved through the Pact for the Future and calls for its swift implementation.
- Finally, it is incumbent upon us to ensure that the United Nations remains for present and future generations a true crucible of human dignity and the guarantor of a better world.
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- If the international community fails to ensure justice for the displaced Rohingya people, this could turn into a humanitarian crisis in the near future.
- Mr. President, Science and technology will shape the future of the world.
- Bangladesh stands ready to work together to build a fair and prosperous future for all.
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Girls are being denied the education that should shape their futures.
- Ireland will continue to work with Lebanon, European Union and international partners to support Lebanon's future peace and security.
- We welcome the Secretary-General's report on the future of peacekeeping, and Ireland will work with others to ensure that this essential capacity adapts to the 21st century.
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Kiribati reaffirms its support for frameworks that embody the spirit of partnership including the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Cities, ABAF, and the Pacific for the Future, which provide important foundations for strengthened international cooperation, solidarity, and collective action.
- Our youth Meanwhile, represent not simply the future of Kiribati.
- We come here, we come to speak of the future we choose.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Excellencies, distinguished delegates, I stand before this Assembly conscious that I speak on behalf of a nation and a people whose future is being shaped in halls like this one.
- It is our identity, our heritage, and our future.
- It must provide practical pathways to the full emancipation of peoples in non-self-governing territories and to their freedom to determine their own political future and development aspirations.
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 3 sentences
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 3 sentences
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, as we work to correct the imbalances inherited from the last century, We must not allow them to be reproduced in the future.
- Egypt will continue to support every effort that restores trust and effectiveness to our multilateral international system and contributes to managing the transformations of our rapidly changing world in a fair and participatory manner, serving the interests of our peoples and future generations.
- As I express our profound gratitude for all that he has done, I wish him every success in his future endeavors.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- However, the UN must now look to the future, building on its record of achievements, as well as from lessons learned from what it could not achieve.
- The historical injustice regarding the composition of the Council was acknowledged in Action 39 of the Pact for the Future, but the process for reform is still stalled.
- Internally, there is the process launched by the Secretary-General to update the administrative and financial structure of the Organization to allow our Organization to be better equipped to overcome future challenges.
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- It is a direct threat to democracy, the rule of law and the ability of our peoples to freely determine their future.
- When a family is protected from poverty, when a child learns in a decent school, when a woman lives free from violence, when a community is no longer isolated, and when a young person can envision a future without being forced to leave their country.
- We also face an important decision for the future of the organization, the selection of the next Secretary-General.
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- These initiatives provide strategic guidance for the building of a community with a shared future for humanity.
- At a time when countries of the world find their futures so closely linked, More and more of them want to join hands to shoulder the historic mission of addressing difficulties and challenges and advancing the well-being of all humanity.
- China will join hands with all other countries to build a community with a shared future for humanity and make the world a better place for all of us.
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 3 sentences
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Brunei Darussalam therefore supports initiatives such as the Pact of the Future and the UN80 initiative.
- For Brunei Darussalam, preparing for the future begins with our people.
- Our ambition is therefore not merely to build a more prosperous country, but a society in which people feel secure in the present, confident about the future, and equipped to shape that future for themselves.
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- A vision that restores hope to future generations for a better future in which the conditions for a dignified life are available to all.
- 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.
- Mr. President, in conclusion, I wish to reaffirm that the United Nations remains for Tunisia, the home of international legitimacy, the house that carries the hopes and aspirations of future generations for a more just and equitable international order, and a unique forum for finding practical solutions to achieve the balance of peace, security, and comprehensive and sustainable development in accordance with the UN 2030 agenda.
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- We've also submitted our updated nationally determined contribution, completed our long-term strategy for a low-carbon, climate-resilient future, and advanced our national adaptation plan.
- The Pact for the Future, the Global Digital Compact, and the Abbas provide important foundations.
- Armed gangs cannot be allowed to determine Haiti's future, nor that of the region.
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- At the same time, in the face of threats posed by illegal fishing and transnational crime, Sao Tome and Principe will continue to work with the states of the region and international partners to strengthen maritime security and promote a sustainable blue economy, thus preserving our resources for future generations.
- The future of Sao Tome and Principe hinges on our ability to create opportunities for the next generation.
- These acts of recognition must translate into an international order in which Africa participates fully in shaping the future, rather than remaining merely in the position of responding to the decisions taken elsewhere.
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- The Pact for the Future, the Compromisos de Sevilla, the Doha Programme of Action, the UNAT Initiative and the OASO Programme of Action for landlocked developing countries can contribute to making the multilateral system more effective, more inclusive and more focused on results, as long as they do not just remain promises.
- It's only if these conditions are met that we will be able to restore confidence and trust between our nations to make our organization credible again and to offer present and future generations a safer, more prosperous world that is more respectful of the aspirations of all peoples.
- We remain convinced that through dialogue, solidarity and determination, the United Nations, together with our people, will be able to overcome the challenges that we face and to build the foundations for a future of peace, dignity and shared prosperity.
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- The technology shaping humanity's future must not create another divide between those countries that can afford to innovate and those that cannot.
- Mr. President, Grenada approaches the future with confidence.
- Mr. President, Grenada stands ready to work with all member states and the international partners in advancing a future that is peaceful, resilient, inclusive, and sustainable.
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Restoring Mother Nature to its pristine state and creating conditions for future generations to live in a healthy environment with confidence and contentment must be a noble duty of humanity.
- This demonstrates that these historical contributions embodied progressive ideas that could serve as a foundation for today's collective efforts to safeguard peace and For example, the renowned Mongolist Vladislav Kotvich, in his work ******** are the promoters of the idea of global peace from the early 14th century," noted that Oltcit, Ilkhan of the ****** Empire, in his letter sent to King Philip IV of France in 1305, eloquently underscored the value of harmonious relations among nations and peoples in the thoughtful words, "What could be better than true concord?" History is the foundation upon which we reflect on the past, shape the present, and build the future, and is the memory of our statehood.
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Expressing appreciation to your predecessor for her stewardship of of the 80th session of the General Assembly, and I wish her every success in her future endeavors.
- And at a time when diversity is too often manipulated as a source of division, Suriname has chosen the path to recognize the distinct histories of its people while strengthening their unity and their shared responsibility for the future.
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- It is for this reason that the Pact for the Future and the 2030 Agenda, our promises to present and future generations, must be implemented earnestly and in full.
- The future of technology does not automatically guarantee equitability, and technological progress must help narrow divides and expand development opportunities, rather than creating new forms of dependency or new sources of conflict.
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Trinidad and Tobago stands in full support of international efforts to help restore security and stability in Haiti whilst maintaining that the country's political future must ultimately be Haitian-led and Haitian-owned.
- Mr. President, the Secretary-General's UN80 initiative to make the organisation more efficient and better equipped for the future is necessary and timely.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- We need to do more to help people with the everyday cost of living and seize the opportunities that give them hope for the future.
- That is the level of ambition that we need now to renew the UN for our times, to tackle challenges like improving global health and preventing future pandemics, to end the wars that are causing so much suffering and instability, including the terrible conflict in Sudan, and to tackle climate change.
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Syrian Arab Republic · Ahmad Al-Sharaa · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- A case in point is Ethiopia's initiative of 5 million quarters program and the soon to be commissioned University of Artificial Intelligence reaffirms that our continent is ready to build the future.
- This will certainly revive multilateralism to meet the demands of the current and future generations.
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- To this, It's important to strengthen international cooperation and equip the UN with greater capacity to address the challenges of the present and make sure that the future generations can have a stronger organization than the one we have received, an organization equal to the challenges of our time, capable of serving the people with dignity, protecting the planet, and promoting a shared prosperity at international level.
- Those words do not belong to the past, but their commitment to a future which the United Nations remain the expression of our shared responsibility towards unity in the humanity.
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Uganda · Jessica Rose Epel Alupo · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Mr. President, 80 years ago, the United Nations was established in the aftermath of the Second World War to foster international cooperation and prevent future armed conflicts.
- This challenge requires urgent reform of international financial architecture to afford developing nations a stronger voice in decision making, alongside the full implementation of the Seville commitment of the Pact for the Future.
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 2 sentences
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- The countries of the global South need cooperation that preserves peace, that drives sustainable and inclusive growth, and that expands the ability of each state to build its own future.
- And it is in that regard that Equatorial Guinea will continue to contribute based on mutual respect, sovereign equality, and dialogue to turn our cooperation into development and opportunities for future generations.
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- We would be remiss not to applaud the efforts, good offices, and initiatives of the Secretary-General aimed at strengthening multilateralism and that include initiatives such as UN80 and the Pact for the Future, as well as the ongoing efforts to address global challenges, crises, conflicts, wars, climate change, and terrorism, as well as the efforts to assist member states in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and to strengthen international cooperation on artificial intelligence.
- We believe that peace is the path to a future where rights are protected, nations are stable, and generations enjoy security and prosperity.
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Lastly, preparing for the future and ensuring it benefits everyone means mastering technological changes.
- 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.
Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Our organization no longer seems able to deliver on the key promise of the UN Charter to save future generations from the scourge of war.
- Unless we have a clear understanding of the methods, processes and purposes of the huge variety of AI systems, how can we risk the consequences to human rights, to our environment, to the long term capacities for our critical thinking and ultimately to the future of the human species?
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Cambodia · Sokhonn Prak · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- It is essential to the future of our bilateral relation and to a shared interest in lasting peace and good neighborly relations.
- And for the United Nations to deliver results for all, Every Member State, whether large or small, developed or developing, must see its dignity, its voice and its future reflected in this Organization.
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- At the same time, we must secure our future by ensuring responsible behavior in outer space, reducing space threats, and preventing an arms race in outer space.
- As we look to the future, we are reminded that everything we strive for ultimately depends on how we choose to navigate these trials together.
Saudi Arabia · Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- The Kingdom has taken a leading role in establishing the International Network of Artificial Intelligence Capacity Building Centres, one of the recommendations emanating from the Pact for the Future.
- The Kingdom will continue to work with its partners in the international community to advance sustainable development, peaceful solutions to crises, and every pathway that reinforces stability and builds confidence based on mutual respect with a view to building a safer and more prosperous future for the region and the world.
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 2 sentences
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- I pay special tribute to the memory of the General Sadio Camara, Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs, whose legacy of patriotism, courage, and sacrifice will continue to inspire future generations of Malians and people in the Sahel.
- It requires strengthening representation within multilateral institutions, including multilateral financial institutions, and ensuring that Africa's voice is heard more clearly in decision-making bodies which affect the future, our world, the future of humankind.
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- As founding member of the agreement on marine biological diversity of areas beyond nation jurisdiction, the BBNJ agreement, we reaffirm our commitment to safeguarding the oceans as a common heritage of humankind for present and future generations.
- Sri Lanka is in the process of building a digital future that includes everyone.
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- As we marked the watershed in UN history, reviewing its past 80 years and looking ahead into the future, mankind ardently desired and aspired to put an immediate end to the current chaos of international relations and regain peace and stability.
- The United Nations should firmly secure its authority and future by promoting equality and cooperation among sovereign states.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- The promotion and protection of universal and indivisible human rights is fundamental to the world we live in today and to a collective vision of our future.
- The fundamental premise of the United Nations is that every state, regardless of size or circumstance, has a stake in shaping our shared future.
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Mr. President, Costa Rica has demonstrated that environmental leadership is not measured by the size of a country's territory, but rather by how unstinting its commitment is to both present and future generations.
- The future of the United Nations will not depend solely on the strength of its charter.
Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Rwanda · Justin Nsengiyumva · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Armenia · Nikol Pashinyan · Day 3 · 1 sentence
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Guinea-Bissau · Ilídio Vieira Té · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Mexico · Roberto Velasco Álvarez · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cameroon · Lejeune Mbella Mbella · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Turkmenistan · Vepa Hajiyev · Day 6 · 1 sentence
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Japan · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
United Arab Emirates · · Day 6 · 1 sentence