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Download CSVHaiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 9 sentences
- Our international financial architecture must evolve to better respond to the needs and the realities of the most vulnerable countries.
- This same requirement for dignity needs to guide our approach to migrations as well, because behind statistics and debates, there are women, children, and men who carry with them a history, talents, hopes, and sometimes the burden of exile.
- Equipment is needed, and one needs to resolve to see the effort through.
- But because it's not enough to arrest those who are terrorizing the population, they need to be judged and justice needs to be done.
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 8 sentences
- More trust between states needs to come about, but there is a crisis in that trust.
- There needs to be a wholesale reform of international financial architecture.
- There needs to be sustainable debt.
- There needs to be equitable taxation and better access to concessional financing.
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- It needs delivery.
- It needs institutions that respond faster.
- It needs financing that reaches vulnerable countries more efficiently.
- It needs partnerships that produce measurable results.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- Mr. President, Fernando comes to this 81st session of the General Assembly with a simple message: the world needs the United Nations more than ever, and the United Nations must deliver for the people who depend on it.
- A small island country cannot finance all of its resilient needs alone.
- Access to such finance must be made easier for the small island developing island state and must respond to the needs of our communities.
- The call from the Pacific Forum leaders for the UN human rights commissioner visit to West Papua remains unheeded and needs to be actioned.
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- The world today has an unprecedented capacity to meet humanity's most pressing needs.
- The world needs a functioning UN Security Council.
- The UN needs to be at the center of rulemaking and institution building.
- What the world needs now is a new San Francisco moment, a moment where the world leaders come together to chart a way forward.
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- It needs a more sophisticated capacity for peace.
- The United Nations needs leadership that can bring its different organs agencies and programs into greater unity of purpose.
- The United Nations needs its next General Secretary to work with all Member States to restore confidence in the Organization, mobilize its energies, and turn the language of multilateralism from aspiration into action.
- We must renew it because humanity still needs it.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- We have the capacity to provide the world with the resources that it needs to be able to develop a better world.
- The world needs cleaner energy sources, but it also needs minerals, lithium, copper, other critical minerals.
- It needs new supply chains and it needs to do that in a responsible way.
- The energy transition also needs to represent productive diversification.
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- We need a stronger General Assembly and institutions that respond effectively to the needs of the majority of our members.
- It is in this spirit that Tonga has nominated Ambassador Yvonne Baki of Ecuador, whose vision for a renewed, reformed United Nations speaks to the needs of vulnerable States.
- The Pacific Resiliency Facility, our own financing mechanism for building community resilience, needs a further $328 million in pledges to reach its initial capitalization target of $500 million.
- Weather Ready Pacific, designed to reduce the human and economic costs of severe weather events, needs a further $160 million to reach its target.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- Humanitarian needs are growing faster than our collective ability to meet them.
- The UN Security Council needs to fulfil its responsibilities.
- We will work with you to ensure the UN is more coordinated and focused on strengthening local capacity and partnerships to address a country's development needs.
- The rise of attacks on protected individuals, including civilians and humanitarian and medical personnel, needs particular attention.
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- There is a general feeling that the United Nations today needs revitalizing in a number of aspects in order to bring it into line with the priorities of a changing world.
- On my first point, we must be frank about where the challenges lie and what needs to be fixed, even when the necessary changes may prove painful.
- Africa needs to be at the table, not on the menu.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 3 sentences
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 3 sentences
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 3 sentences
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- A country particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change knows that adaptation, risk management and the protection of rural livelihoods require national efforts, but also financing and cooperation commensurate with the needs, capable of building capacity and delivering results.
- Guatemala hopes that the process will be transparent and inclusive and will identify an independent leader able to build bridges, defend the principles of the Charter, and lead the reform our organization needs.
- In closing, I wish to say that Guatemala will continue to do its part, strengthening democratic institutions capable of meeting the needs of our people, resolutely confronting transnational organized crime and those who seek to capture institutions, defending international law consistently, promoting regional responses based on shared responsibility, and working for a United Nations capable of transforming itself to fulfil the promise contained in the opening words of our Charter: "We, the Peoples".
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 3 sentences
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Each situation needs to be resolved according to each country's individual experience.
- And we have managed to reach the length and breadth of our country, even the most forgotten corners, and providing immediate care for anyone who needs it, regardless of wherever they live.
- So enough with the conformism, enough of personal and national interests prevailing over the needs of the world and global crises.
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 3 sentences
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 2 sentences
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 2 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.
- supporting the organization that the United Nations also needs to involve a willingness to transform the United Nations and that's why we support the UN80 initiative and pose an essential question, what United Nations of the world needs today?
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- I'm saying it because it is the world that needs to show itself that on the road to equality, there's no going back.
- And it's for these reasons, ladies and gentlemen, that I believe I believe that in order to get off on the right footing in this new decisive step forward for the United Nations, the UN needs a female Latin American Secretary-General.
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 2 sentences
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- It needs competition with limits and rules that all must respect, alliances that take responsibility, and international institutions that remain a space for a dialogue precisely when dialogue is most difficult.
- Responsible policy must bring together security, human dignity, development, and the real needs of labor markets.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- And it is why the world needs a stronger, more agile United Nations, one equipped to respond to the realities of today.
- I call on this Assembly to match the courage of our Pacific communities with collective international resolve to scale up adaptation and resilience finance and to support communities facing climate mobility needs.
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- We are grateful to Secretary-General Guterres for his service to the Organization and for his proposals to adapt the Organization to the needs of today.
- We hope that this decision will come very soon in order to give the new Secretary-General the time she needs to prepare for this most unique of jobs.
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Rather, it needs effective multilateralism in which every state has a voice and every people receive a fair share of decisions, opportunities, and resources.
- and a fairer system for assessing countries' needs and investment risks, thus enabling the mobilization of private capital without shifting risks onto the most vulnerable countries.
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Cambodia · Sokhonn Prak · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- We believe not because we harbor nostalgia for the world of 1945, but because in 2026, the world more than ever needs a forum where states can talk to one another, listen to one another, and act in concert.
- They must accelerate their development and at the same time fund their energy transition as well as adapt to climate change, on top of investing in health, education, the digital sphere, and meeting growing social needs.
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Bhutan · Tshering Tobgay · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Guinea · Mamadi Doumbouya · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Uganda · Jessica Rose Epel Alupo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · 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
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Armenia · Nikol Pashinyan · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 1 sentence
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · 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
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Bahrain · Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Mexico · Roberto Velasco Álvarez · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cameroon · Lejeune Mbella Mbella · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 1 sentence
United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 1 sentence
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 1 sentence