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Download CSVUnited States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 11 sentences
- Last week, it was announced that the poverty rate has reached its lowest level in American history.
- We lifted 1.5 million Americans out of poverty last year alone, another record.
- U.S. stock markets have set 80 all-time records, and that's just in the last 12 months, we've secured commitments for $21 trillion in new investments from all over the planet, compared to less than $1 trillion in four years in the previous administration.
- As a result, last year, we achieved the largest drop in violent crime ever recorded.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 9 sentences
- As the new British Prime Minister, I'm here today to tell you how Britain will deliver leadership in a changing world for the decade that lies ahead, learning from our experience of the last one.
- True resilience depends on this military strength, but the last 10 years tells us that it is also about something deeper as well.
- Over the last decade, we have given too much ground to those who want to run a negative, corrosive narrative about life in Britain, which bears no resemblance to reality.
- Building on the meeting convened by His Majesty King Charles last week, I can announce today that I am going to put AI at the heart of the UK's G20 presidency next year.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- And at the end of the day, the message I wish to convey to you today, as I've been doing over the last nine years, is a message of determination, optimism through action.
- And that's why over the last few years, we've launched many more initiatives.
- In a similar vein, this North-South partnership requires and will require us to wield our capacity to reopen a dialogue about our common history, our cultural relationships, And remembrance, this is what France has tried to do over the last few years.
- We've done a great deal over the last few years, ever since the Paris Agreement 11 years ago.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- Mr. President, Last year, we meaningfully celebrated the 80th founding anniversary of the United Nations.
- Unfortunately, however, what the world witnessed every day for the last one year was a harsh reality rampant with unprecedented mutual distrust and confrontation, infringement on sovereignty and military conflicts that led to extreme unrest and disorder globally.
- During the last five years, the existence and development of humankind was severely constrained by the global pandemic, abnormal weather conditions, geopolitical confrontation, and the interlinking economic crisis.
- The Korean Peninsula and its vicinity, in particular, are faced with extreme instability and further aggravated tension on a level different from that of last year, due to the persistent hostility towards the DPRK and ever-increasing military confrontation of the U.S. and its followers.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Over the last day, over the last decade, wars erupted with devastating consequences and dragged on with despicable cruelty.
- In advisory opinion last year, The court was clear that United Nations need to be allowed to perform our mandates in Gaza and for our staff and humanitarian personnel to be protected.
- Over the last decade, we achieved an enormous milestone.
- The last decade has fueled one of the most promising shifts in power of our time, the rise of clean energy.
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- The Oslo Peace Institute reported that in 2025 last year, 245, 000 individuals faced battle-related deaths.
- Last year we feared that there was a risk of conflicts in the Middle East widening even further.
- This includes, of course, the Caribbean Communities Eminent Persons Group, which has been helping to build consensus and maintain engagement with key international partners in the last few years.
- Much good has been done by this UN in the last 60 and in fact 80 years.
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, Last year, our Prime Minister, the honorable Doctor Terrence Drew, spoke of our sustainable island state agenda, Cesar.
- Sustainability must be practical, people-centered, and built to last.
- Half of the world's population is under 30, yet 67 million young people were unemployed last year.
- Last year, our Prime Minister introduced this assembly to our Aspire program.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Let it be known that, although President Abbas is unable to be with us here in person, We will, as we did last year, continue to be the voice of a free and sovereign state of Palestine.
- It's just enough to look at the picture that has unfolded over the last one-year period.
- The past 12 months have gone down in history as one of the bloodiest periods of the last 30 years, marked by more than 60 conflicts and wars.
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Because our forests are under even more pressure than when I addressed this meeting last year.
- Last year at this rostrum, I noted that Suriname is diversity.
- Last month, the Republic of Suriname observed its first heritage month under the theme, "Who we hear the same aquama, who we some of further hand," meaning as much as, however we came here, united we move forward.
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- One day, any day, by accident, miscalculation, computer error, madness, or foolish strategic design, we could become the last human generation.
- Every time we let the suffering of people become background noise, we let ourselves forget how small the distance really is, how little separates your daughter, granddaughter, niece, from the girl in the refugee camp you saw on the news last night, how many children right now are learning that a world at war is normality.
- Last but not least, in parting, I want to share selected messages from children and youth who responded to my invitation a few days ago to write a few words expressing their hopes and dreams so that they are here.
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 3 sentences
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 3 sentences
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- We must renew it and strengthen it so that this century it can play the same key role that it plays played last century.
- Feminism, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the main forces of transformation and progress that the world has experienced in the last century, and it's time for this force to guide this institution in much more of a clear and robust way.
- Over the last eight years, my country has opposed all wars of aggression wherever they have started, whether it's in Ukraine, in Lebanon or in Iran.
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- of the last SG's report on children in armed conflict and conflict-related sexual violence are especially alarming.
- For a country such as Andorra, this last aspect is particularly relevant.
- Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, this is the last time that I will have the honor of addressing this General Assembly as head of government of the Principality of Andorra.
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- The violation of the UN Charter and of international law attacks by Russia on Ukraine also threaten the security of civilian populations beyond Ukraine's borders, and it is unacceptable that over the last 12 months, Russia has on several occasions threatened the security of several European Union member states.
- We regret the current stalemate in Gaza and more broadly speaking in Palestine, which is prolonging the suffering of millions of civilians despite the momentum towards the end of the conflict that we thought we saw at the end of last year.
- In the last 12 months alone, we concluded negotiations and signed agreements with India, Australia, Philippines, Mercosur, Mexico, among others, benefiting billions of people.
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Last year at this Assembly, Australian parents spoke to
- Last year, following the killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankham and the deaths of over 1,000 other humanitarian workers in the last three years, Australia and eight partner nations led the development of a declaration for the protection of humanitarian personnel, now supported by 130 countries, that declaration outlines practical measures to ensure stronger accountability, safer access, and better protection for aid workers operating in conflict zones.
- Colleagues, last year, Australia took the considered decision to join other partners and recognise the state of Palestine.
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.
- In the last year, 2 million people in the Southern African Development Community suffered the combined and debilitating impact of floods, cyclones, wildfires, and disease outbreaks.
- In the last two years, the world spent more on military budgets than on resourcing this important body tasked with maintaining global peace.
Cambodia · Sokhonn Prak · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- In the words of the UN Special Rapporteur, who visited the border last July, they need and deserve to go home.
- Last May, Thailand decided to unilaterally terminate the MOU 2001.
- As our Prime Minister, Samdech Mabahavathabodei Hun Manet, stated in his special address last June, we have taken this step to protect Cambodia's sovereignty and maritime rights in accordance with international law.
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, over the last few days, Over the last week, from the rostrum and in the corridors of the General Assembly, the following idea was heard many times: There are tectonic shifts underway in global politics.
- We're particularly disquieted by the fact that the US and Israeli aggression, which began in June of last year also seeks to target the civilian infrastructure in Iran and civilian nuclear infrastructure under IAEA safeguards.
- In October of last year in Hanoi, at Russia's behest, the UN Convention against Cybercrime was open for signature.
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- We welcomed the civil commitment last year, including its call for urgent action to close the $4 trillion financing gap for sustainable development in developing countries.
- Our national budget last year made historic allocations to the healthcare and education sectors.
- My President, who addressed this Assembly last year, also highlighted how narcotics and related organized crime have become a menace for many countries, as well as our government's comprehensive efforts to address this menace.
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Excellencies, last year, this Assembly endorsed the New York Declaration, a roadmap towards the two-state solution, a path to lasting peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians.
- On the contrary, it must inspire us to work harder to sustain and strengthen the structures, instruments and mechanisms we have built over the last 81 years.
- Excellencies, in closing, I am happy to inform you that last week, in this very building, Denmark, Greenland and the United States signed an agreement on security which strengthens the defence of Greenland, the NATO area and the American continent.
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- To share Japan's expertise and technology in disaster risk reduction and contribute to global efforts in this field, I appointed a new Minister of State for International Disaster Risk Reduction Cooperation in my cabinet reshuffle last week.
- I would like to strongly emphasize this position as Japan takes pride and honor in its significant contributions to the efforts of the United Nations for the last 70 years.
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Madam President, with regard to the North African region, thanks to the momentum initiated by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God assist him, the question of the Moroccan Sahara reached a historic turning point with the adoption by the Security Council of Resolution 2797 last October.
- Sixth and last, there can be no tolerance for the continued holding of the population of the camps as hostages for half a century in flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law.
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Distinguished delegates, last year, the world recorded 65 state-based armed conflicts, the highest number of documented incidences in eight digits of global conflict data.
- Over the last four years, we have spent an additional $5.3 billion in education, recruited 100,000 additional teachers, built more than 23,000 new classrooms, and we are developing another 1,600 laboratories while expanding support for universities and technical institutions.
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- I also wish to commend outgoing UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, for his dedicated service to our world body over the last 10 years.
- But, Mr. President, last year from this very podium, I made a solemn pledge on behalf of Africa and the global African diaspora to seek full international recognition of the transatlantic trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Dear colleagues, As was the case last year, we are yet again meeting here against the backdrop of a worrying global juncture.
- No country No peace, no security can be viable, nor can it last without the two-state solution, Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital and Israel, the two living side by side within safe and internationally recognized borders.
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Slovenia · Janez Janša · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Last year, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
- Let me be clear, the search for peace and security in the Middle East is of profound importance and the suffering of Palestinian and also Israeli civilians this serious and sustained consideration every civilian life matters but we are applying the same but are we applying the same standard of urgency when victims are elsewhere last year alone or 4,800 Christians were killed because of their religion.
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Last Thursday, the State Department convened within this General Assembly, a humiliating meeting specifically with the states that are the recipients of this cooperation in order to apply pressure and make threats.
- Last 30th of July, during the closing ceremony of the seventh session of the National People's Power Assembly, President Miguel Diaz-Canel, given the complex situation I've described, referred to how we can continue to grow socialism.
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- On the 28th of October last year, Hurricane Melissa struck our island.
- 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.
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 2 sentences
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Argentina · · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Syrian Arab Republic · Ahmad Al-Sharaa · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Rwanda · Justin Nsengiyumva · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 1 sentence
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · 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
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 1 sentence
India · · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 1 sentence
GA · · Day 5 · 1 sentence
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 1 sentence
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 1 sentence
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 1 sentence