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Download CSVLibya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 9 sentences
- This brings us to the essence of what sovereignty means to us.
- Sovereignty means that national decision-making is free.
- It also means that our cooperation and integration with United Nations bodies are based on transparency, seriousness, and impartiality, free from selectivity and double standards.
- Sovereignty means protecting the rights and dignity of the Libyan people from violations, whoever the perpetrator, and ensuring that no one is above the law and no one escapes accountability.
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 7 sentences
- Trust means that the founding principles of the United Nations Charter must be respected.
- Trust means that international agreements must be honored.
- Trust means that development commitments must be financed.
- Trust means that the voices of developing countries matter in a world in word and in deed.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 7 sentences
- For us, security also means food security, energy security, water security, health security, economic security, cybersecurity, environmental security, and the security of our people from the impacts of climate change.
- For Vanuatu, restoring trust also means restoring confidence in the multilateral in multilateralism itself.
- These principles are particularly important to Vanuatu because we know what independence means.
- Independence means the right of our people to determine our future.
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- For Grenada, removing trust means demonstrating through our actions that international cooperation produces results.
- It means listening to one another.
- It means respecting the voices of small states as much as those of large ones.
- It means building genuine partnership.
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- For Dominica, this means resilient roads and bridges, resilient buildings, reliable communications, modern water systems, strengthened health infrastructure, and disaster-ready communities.
- For Dominica, restoring trust means closing the gap between international commitments and the lived experience of our people.
- It means ensuring that when the world says it supports climate resilience, resources actually reach the communities that need them.
- It means ensuring that when we call for sustainable development, financing mechanisms do not make sustainability harder to achieve.
Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- Engaging in dialogue means maintaining contact when positions begin to diverge.
- Above all, it can serve as a means of prevention before crises arise.
- It also means being able to make a real contribution to decisions that will affect one's own future.
- This means that as many countries and societies as possible must be able to benefit from advances in AI, develop their skills and contribute to the debate on the rules that will govern its development and use.
Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- For my country, that means ensuring no nation, regardless of size or distance, is left behind as the world changes around us.
- It may seem a small courtesy, but it means a great deal at home.
- That means I am from Naro, and so is every person I have the honor to speak for today.
- Those with the means to act will not wait.
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Above all, it means working for the well-being of people.
- It means understanding that peace demands something more difficult than merely taking sides.
- It means that we need to work so that that confrontation can be brought to an end as soon as possible.
- On the contrary, it means recognizing our own limitations while at the same time trusting in the abilities of others.
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Rebuilding trust means addressing each of these concerns.
- For Thailand, peace means more than the absence of war.
- Mr. President, having a stronger voice in global institutions means countries working together on the problems closest to them.
- For my country, Thailand, that practical cooperation means serving as a trusted platform.
Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- For Indonesia, this means building greater self-sufficiency in food and strengthening our energy security.
- 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.
- But believing in the United Nations also means believing that it must evolve with the world it serves.
- Indonesia knows what it means to struggle against colonialism.
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- Never has humanity had so many different means to shape its fate.
- However, nor has humanity ever been so acutely aware of the need to make collective decisions about how these means should be used to serve the common good.
- Defending multilateralism also means taking a lucid look at the United Nations Organization.
- Let's manage these transformations, and that means deciding to prepare for them rather than simply enduring them.
Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- But this moment also makes me reflect on what the United Nations means from the perspective of my own generation.
- Placing our trust in young people means giving them responsibilities, allowing them to take action.
- As we confront these transformations, we should endow our young people with the means to develop their critical thinking skills and their creativity.
- Madam President, restoring trust also means making our institutions worthy of that trust.
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 4 sentences
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- 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.
- This means we need to rebalance access to financing.
- This means advocating a for faster, more predictable and more inclusive sovereign debt restructuring mechanism.
- For its part, Madagascar is preparing at the national level a framework for the effective implementation of this transformation within our means.
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Restoring the legitimate presence of the state also means providing security in accordance with the law, strengthening prevention, protecting communities, and pursuing criminal networks rather than only their visible manifestations.
- It means improving investigations, institutional coordination, and the tracing of the financial flows that sustain illicit economies.
- Disputes must be settled by peaceful means.
- We place our trust in dialogue, negotiation and the mechanisms provided for under international law, because even the most complex historical differences can and must be resolved by peaceful means.
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- Therefore, investing in our young people, in education, in knowledge, and in the possibility of building a dignified life means also investing in peace.
- Excellencies, learning also means embracing change.
- Development means transforming knowledge into opportunity and opportunity into dignity.
- Learning today also means Understanding that educating a child, providing opportunities for young people, protecting our planet, fighting poverty, promoting development, and building peace are not separate missions.
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- It means equipping ourselves to face the world that is emerging, from conflicts and climate change to sustainable development and emerging technologies.
- That means equipping our people with the knowledge and skills to adapt to change.
- It also means ensuring They have the security and stability to build their lives with confidence, supported by strong communities, quality health care and essential services, social protection, and a cohesive, resilient society.
- Therefore, to build a United Nations that delivers for all, we must always remember who all means.
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- First, there must be a sincere determination and responsible commitment by all states to respect international law founded on agreements and the principle of sovereign equality among states, and to uphold the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, particularly refraining from the use of force, the settlement of disputes by peaceful means, and fulfilling international obligations in good faith.
- and that the United Nations, through its principal organs, should consider the means and measures required to bring that presence to an end as rapidly as possible.
- for wisdom and reason to prevail, and for a return to dialogue and negotiations, giving absolute priority to political and peaceful and diplomatic solutions as the only means of resolving existing disputes in a manner that strengthens the foundations of security and stability in the region and prevents further escalation.
- Rather, it means ensuring that everyone benefits from the UN system while directing greater support and attention to those in greatest need and to the peoples and countries facing war, poverty, marginalization, and the effects of global crisis.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- This means tackling persistent violations and cases of non-compliance.
- Meeting this challenge means exercising your powers to achieve the most impact from the resources available.
- It means demanding a culture of continuous improvement, one that focuses on effective implementation and results.
- It means setting the highest standards for performance within the secretariat and holding staff accountable for delivering.
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- 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.
- Mr. President, for South Sudan, restoring trust means delivering on the promises of peace.
- Managing transformation means moving from conflict to institutions, from dependency to national capacity, and from transition towards democratic governance.
- And a United Nations that deliver for all means ultimately help nations develop the capacity to deliver for their own people.
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- We're seeing agendas that, however noble they might appear, have ultimately postponed what this organization committed to do with the with its founding charter that is maintain peace protect right life and defend the freedom of its peoples we believe in the United Nations and believing in the United Nations means ensuring that the organization discharges its mandate I propose three things reducing bureaucracy and focusing resources where there are lives at stake.
- That means that we now have the first UN body to ever have had a headquarters in Latin America and this is an agreement which brings together many different sectors in Chile to play this role.
- That means making progress as quickly as our ability to administer progress allows.
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 3 sentences
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- This means a global order of rules by and for all, for countries small and large, without double standards.
- This commitment also means ensuring that each of us has the ability to participate and to be heard.
- For Bulgaria, investment in education, science and culture means an investment in the long-term viability of our societies.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Restoring trust means applying the law, even when it is costly, not only when it is convenient.
- Supporting transformation means sharing its benefits equitably.
- Putting the UN at the service of all means ensuring that no people is too far away to be protected or too deprived to be heard too rich in resources to remain sovereign.
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- For the Palestinian people, a sovereign future means freedom, dignity, self-determination, and the right to live their security in their own state.
- But resilience demands the means to act.
- That means finance must reach those who need it at the scale, at the speed, and on the terms needed to build resilience.
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- For us, decarbonizing also means greater energy security and protection from global fuel price shocks.
- Come to the Pacific and confront what 1.5 degrees means for our water, our people, our food, our homes, and our security.
- For Tonga, resilience means taking greater control of the forces shaping our future and turning the resources within our geography into greater self-sufficiency.
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- This means we face both great peril and great promise.
- And this is customary international law, which means it is binding on all states, whether or not they consider themselves parties to UNCLOS.
- And since the risks from AI do not remain confined behind borders, it means we also need rules of the road that will form a shared global understanding of how we will collectively confront this challenge.
Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 3 sentences
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 3 sentences
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- For SIDS, that means protecting development the development pillar advancing implementation of the Antigua and Barbuda agenda for SIDS, a bus, and bringing effective support closer to those who need it most.
- Salt water destroys fresh water and throws upon it, forcing countries like Antigua and Barbuda to spend increasingly more costly means to secure fresh drinking water.
- Centuries of enslavement and colonial extraction transformed transferred wealth from our societies and denied generations the means to build prosperity.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- We remain deeply convinced, and our conviction is based on realistic considerations, convinced that the crisis in the Gulf can be resolved through diplomatic means, by reopening the Strait of Hormuz to maritime navigation and returning to negotiations in order to avert war, paving the way toward a lasting solution that ensures security and stability for the entire region, including Iran, while opening prospects for cooperation across various fields and ensuring non-interference in the internal affairs of states.
- It's as though there were no means of communication, as though Israeli soldiers had not boasted through both sound and visuals of their crimes.
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 2 sentences
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- and a United Nation that delivers for all comes at a time when our world faces multiple crises, aggression against states, internal armed conflicts fueled from outside, and expansionist conflicts that are breeding mistrust among states and rendering the international community unable to resolve these crises through peaceful means.
- With regard to socioeconomic development, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and those of Agenda 2063 requires financial means that are commensurate with our ambitions.
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- We also see instrumentalization of migration as a means of exerting pressure on countries, whether on the European Union, Eastern and Southern borders or elsewhere.
- For me, this role means both trust and responsibility to help ensure that AI serves people, that its use is secure and reliable, and that its benefits reach as many countries and communities as possible.
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- When countries have the means to invest in their people, and when international institutions respond effectively to shared threats, trust is strengthened.
- That partnership helped to mitigate an epidemic by means of one of the world's most successful national responses and placed Botswana firmly on the path towards ending HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Which means restoring trust, rebuilding alliances, remaking friendships must be the central mission for all of us here, at home and abroad.
- Not just in Ukraine, Gaza and Israel But across the world, be it the conflict in Sudan, the ongoing violence in Myanmar, or the instability across the Sahel, it is evident that diminished trust means diminished chances of finding solutions.
Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- It means building artificial intelligence that understands our languages and our lives, and not only the lives of those in the wealthy North, dominating languages and dominating cultures.
- And it means taking part in the digital age on our own terms, not as consumers of other people's systems, but as builders of our own.
Bahrain · Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- When international law means what it says, and when the people of the world can look to this hall and believe that their voices still matter.
- That means managing the enormous demands that tech infrastructure places on water, energy, land, and other resources so that the benefits of AI can be shared more broadly across the borders.
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- For the Confederation, rebuilding trust must go hand in hand with the immediate interest of dealing with state support for terrorists because terrorism can must not continue to be a tool of foreign policy on the part of certain powers the Confederation of Sahel states does not just face a simple sum of isolated terrorist groups we face a persistent enterprise of destabilization supported by considerable means and focused against the right of our peoples to live in peace, to choose their leaders and to have control over their resources and fully exercise their sovereignty.
- and say things clearly, the supply chains, the technical capacities and coordinated use of conventional means do not come out of nowhere.
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- And because we built a system of international relations whose central purpose was to reject war and to safeguard a lasting peace, but without providing this system with the means and instruments necessary to achieve an ambition of this size, For this reason, the theme that was chosen by the President of our General Assembly for this session, namely, Restoring Trust and Managing Transformation, a United Nations delivering results for all.
- Nor can we advocate for international peace and security while the system of international relations continues to favor war as a means of resolving dispute.
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- It further highlights the immutable truth that just power means national sovereignty and prestige and fundamental guarantee of peace and stability.
- I'd like to reiterate the official position of the DPRK government, the status of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a nuclear weapons state, that has been uncompromisingly and permanently fixed both physically and legally with absolutely no turning point, can never be reversed in any circumstances or by any means, no matter how hard and loudly the hostile forces may deny in chorus with all sorts of rhetoric.
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Sudan · · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- The number of Colombian fighters is about 2,000 fighters, including the Diab al-Sahra and other fighters from neighboring countries, which means the RSF no longer have any national characteristic.
- And it means that the UAE support is an external aggression led by mercenary networks that transcend borders.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 1 sentence
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Bhutan · Tshering Tobgay · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Guinea · Mamadi Doumbouya · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Rwanda · Justin Nsengiyumva · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 1 sentence
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 1 sentence
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 1 sentence
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cambodia · Sokhonn Prak · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · 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
Philippines · · Day 6 · 1 sentence