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Download CSVDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 11 sentences
- 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.
- 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.
- The U.S.-Japan-ROK military alliance, unmistakably aimed at the DPRK, is being evolved by the United States into a more offensive and aggressive military bloc with a nuclear element.
- and to steadily cultivate and master their performance capability through provocative war rehearsals of all hues and military buildup.
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 9 sentences
- Our military is the most powerful on Earth.
- We've invested more money in the United States military in the past 12 months than ever before.
- Then, in Operation Midnight Hammer, the U.S. military obliterated their nuclear program beneath mountains of rubble.
- In January, at my direction, the United States military conducted a massive military operation, penetrating deep into the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, descended on a heavily defended and fortified military base, one that was supposed to be flawless against attack, and arrested the outlaw dictator, real criminal, Nicolas Maduro.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- The challenges confronting humanity do not recognize the size of our economies, the strength of our militaries, or the boundaries on our map.
- We must therefore continue to work together, respecting the sovereignty of all nations upholding the international law and the United Nations Charter, resolving our differences peacefully, and recognizing that every nation, regardless of its size or economic strength or military might, has a voice and a place in this Assembly.
- The might of military power must not suppress the weak.
- Military strength of a nation does not make the rights of another nation less important.
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- And to begin this debate, it is high time to transfer this conflict from the military sphere to the political and diplomatic realm.
- military security must be complemented by the second pillar of security, that is to say, the contractual and legal pillar, which must guarantee that defensive capacity building provides more security rather than a new arms race.
- For the security of Europe, we must add robust diplomacy to military and economic security.
- This requires strengthening diplomacy, mediation, and political dialogue, as well as effective control over arms proliferation and the military applications of new technologies.
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- However, It is alarming to see the advance of expansionism, usurpation, plunder, conquest, as well as military and economic aggressions.
- The genocidal crime of Zionism against the Palestinian people, the pirate attacks against vessels, and the extrajudicial executions in the Caribbean Sea and some areas in the Pacific, the military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran are new expressions of this atrocity.
- The threat of the use of military force against Cuba persists.
- Any minimally informed observer would understand the unrealistic and barbarous intention to portray a relatively small and developing nation such as Cuba with a modest economic performance as a threat to the biggest nuclear, military, technological and economic power on the planet.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- We are witnessing geopolitical competition, strategic rivalry, armed conflicts, growing military expenditures, economic fragmentation, technological disruption, and a weakening of confidence in the multilateral institutions.
- Small states do not possess the military, economic, or technological capabilities of major powers.
- We therefore cannot accept a world in which international law applies differently according to the size, military strength, or economic power of a state.
- The security of the Pacific is not simply about military deployments or strategic competition.
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Furthermore, Mongolia has made tangible contributions to global efforts to maintain international peace and security through its active participation in the United Nations peacekeeping operations and other international missions, having deployed more than 23,000 military and police personnel to hotspots around the world since 2002.
- Even today, our troops are serving in the Gang Suppression Force, a multinational police and military mission deployed to Haiti.
- Mongolia has been actively advancing the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, Women, Peace and Security, and has become one of the few countries to have reached 15 percent women's participation and representation among its military personnel serving in UN PKOs.
- It is deeply regrettable that, according to the latest report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute released at this critical time, global military expenditure has reached an all-time high of 2.9 trillion US dollars.
Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- However, the terrorist Houthi militias have responded to those efforts with intransigence, using periods of humanitarian truces to advance their military arsenals at the expense of the livelihoods of ordinary citizens.
- Ladies and gentlemen, this coup could not have persisted for so many years, nor could its threat have expanded from Yemen to neighboring states and international waterways without the military support expertise, and technology provided to the Houthi militias by the rogue Iranian regime.
- Supporting the Yemeni government and strengthening its economic security and military capacities is an investment in international peace and security.
- 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.
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- It is unacceptable the fact that force was used to kill the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and members of his family, members of the military and political leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Thus, Chancellor Merz is stating that Germany must once again be a leading military power in Europe.
- In 2022, we began a special military operation to protect people in Donbas and Novorossiya, to protect them from elimination by the Kyiv regime.
- The objectives of our special military operation will be achieved and threats to our security will be eliminated.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- And third, humans are increasingly handing power to machines, with artificial agents going rogue and little autonomous weapons going from science fiction to military reality.
- Military power alone cannot secure peace.
- Excellencies, These and so many other conflicts show what happens when power gets out of control, force outpaces diplomacy, military budgets soar, and accountability goes out the window.
Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- It is made worse by growing nuclear ambitions in the Middle East and Asia, as well as the irresponsible transfer of military-related goods, use items and sensitive technologies.
- In the 12 years since the illegal occupation of Crimea, Russia has escalated from clandestine operations and limited warfare in eastern Ukraine to massive military operations, mass killings, and ultimately the largest drone attacks against civilian infrastructure the world has ever seen.
- In the last 55 months, Russia has suffered 1.5 million military casualties.
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- That is why we have the military power we do for defense.
- They close access for us to our own waterway, yet they keep supplying missiles and deadly military technologies to bring insecurity to all of the lands surrounding that waterway.
- We must not build a world in which military power replaces legitimacy, terrorism replaces politics and negotiations, and war replaces dialogue and diplomacy.
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- We are strengthening our alliances, developing our military and modernizing its equipment, not to wage war, but to prevent it.
- Ladies and gentlemen, we must, however, make it clear, modern security threats are not limited to classical military actions.
- For if aggression, whether military or hybrid in nature, is not met with an adequate response, it becomes an invitation to repeat it.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- With regard to the issue of the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda, the FDLR, long cited by Kigali to justify its military presence in our territory, the DRC is shouldering its responsibility.
- The protocol signed by the political and military leadership of the FDLR on May 30, 2026, provides for the disarmament, demobilization, and containment of their combatants with a view toward their repatriation or resettlement without prejudice to potential judicial prosecution for serious crimes.
- The issue of the FDLR, therefore, should no longer serve as a pretext for maintaining foreign military presence in our territory.
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- This criminal enterprise has been unmasked now that the military, political and media elites that justify it in the name of their own country's interests have themselves removed their veils and removed their masks.
- Those proxies are armed, managed, and led, and they are about to attack our military positions and our oil installations.
- Ladies and gentlemen, this is an opportunity to commend the courage of our defense and security forces and to pay tribute to all of our civilian and military martyrs.
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 3 sentences
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Regarding Iran's lawful defensive acts against the US military facilities in the region, I must refer to this Assembly's resolution on the definition of aggression.
- Our defensive acts against the US military infrastructure were carried out in the exercise of our inherent right to self-defense.
- Our response was confined to the U.S. military installation and assets.
Sudan · · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- We ask the UAE to work on their own political regimes so that they are more representative of their people instead of being a familial government, governing regime headed by military officials.
- Members of companies registered in the UAE contract and purchase the services of these foreign mercenaries and convey and transport the military materiel.
- Despite the reports and this documentation, however, the mission that prepared these reports, and which has proven that individuals and entities are working out of the UAE and are tied to the UAE, and they had a major role to play in networks that recruited mercenaries and financed them and provided them with military support that was benefited by the RSF.
China · · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Decades ago, Japan joined the UN after recognizing its military's crimes and accepted the charter in its entirety.
- In recent years, Japan has made frequent moves in military and security sectors to break free from the constraints of post-war system, expand military capacities, and send dangerous signals.
- laying bare its true intention to depart from the path of peaceful development in pursuit of military expansion.
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- This is the observation of someone who represents a nation that loves peace and freedom, someone who fought against a military dictatorship and defended their country against a coup d'etat.
- In Latin America and the Caribbean region, geographical proximity to the world's greatest military power is inescapable.
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 2 sentences
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- First, the escalation of acute and diverse international crises, military, economic, energy related and environmental.
- deploying high-ranking military officers to the internal security forces, and setting up a military field hospital, in addition to its readiness to lead a program to counter extremism.
Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Today we are witnessing the emergence of a new order increasingly structured around two principal centers of power alongside a growing number of strong regional actors with considerable political, economic, military, and technological capabilities seeking to shape their own environments and influence broader global developments on their own terms.
- We must anticipate the consequences of a world in which force is once again being presented ever more openly as the most reliable instrument of policy, in which military budgets are growing, conflicts are multiplying, arms control mechanisms are weakening, and channels of communication are disappearing precisely when they are needed most.
Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Military action may alter the battlefield, but durable peace is built through inclusive political processes that restore confidence, address grievances, and allow affected communities to shape their socioeconomic and political destinies.
- Artificial intelligence must narrow development gaps, while its military use, including in nuclear command and control must remain subject to human judgment, accountability, and international law.
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Nigeria's prolonged struggle against Boko Haram, ISWAP, and other armed groups has taught us that military victories require enduring foundations in education, economic opportunity, accountable governance, and communities whose rights and dignity are protected.
- We place our faith in diplomacy because military victories alone cannot secure lasting peace.
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- With the end of the international coalition's mission in Iraq, we are moving our relationship with our strategic partners to a new phase, moving from military cooperation to economic and development cooperation in service of our common interests.
- In this manner, We add to Iraqis' victory over terrorism a redoubled determination and momentum to finish building our military and security capacities in order to protect our country, our people, and our sovereignty.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Belize informs this assembly of a serious breach of international law committed on the night of 23rd September 2026 when a Guatemalan military aircraft entered Belize's sovereign airspace and intentionally disabled its transponder.
- Belize further requests heightened monitoring by the United Nations and the OAS to ensure that no member state uses military force or intimidation to influence judicial proceedings.
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Tunisia renews its call for an immediate cessation of military operations.
- including through the establishment of an international platform for exchanging expertise and information, the development of a unified operational manual, and the strengthening of training, capacity building, and civil-military coordination, which should include both men and women.
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- For more than 17 centuries, we have survived not through military power, territorial expansion, economic might, but through dialogue, respect for the law, neutrality, and the conviction that sovereignty of a small state is no less valuable than that of a great power.
- The modernization and expansion of nuclear arsenal, together with growing military expenditure and the rapid development of artificial intelligences and cyber capabilities, increase the risk of escalation.
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 2 sentences
China · · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Among others, it attempts to cover up its ongoing expansion of military capacities.
- In recent years, Japan has been drastically increasing military spending, relaxing restrictions on export of lethal weapons, advancing the deployment of intermediate and long-range missiles, strengthening offensive military capacities.
Burundi · · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- whose military engagement in the DRC is being conducted without the authorization of the Congolese state and in other terms is in a violation of its sovereignty and the notion of the inviolability of its borders.
- Burundi is not in line with any armed group operating against a neighboring state Burundi remains committed to Regional stability to the fight against armed groups and to stringent compliance with the principle of the sovereignty of States its cooperation with the DRC is state to state cooperation based on formal agreements made between two sovereign governments Burundi reaffirms that its military presence in the DRC is something that falls within the exclusive purview of a bilateral framework and has no direct or indirect link to the FDLR.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- In line with the updated 2026 defense white paper, Japan is frantically enforcing militarist policies such as the highest ever military expenditure, introduction of AI into the self-defense force commanding system, and reshuffle of the structure of the Ministry of Defense, to name just a few.
- While hellbent on deploying long-range strike means, Japan is equally involved in bilateral and multilateral joint military exercises with the United States and its vessel forces.
Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Syrian Arab Republic · Ahmad Al-Sharaa · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Uganda · Jessica Rose Epel Alupo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · 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
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · 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
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Mauritania · Mohamed Salem Merzoug · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Sweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Pakistan · · Day 4 · 1 sentence
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 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
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 1 sentence
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Japan · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Philippines · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 1 sentence