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Download CSVUnited States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 11 sentences
- They're proud like never before.
- From the first day I entered the political arena, I've been Unwavering, I will never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
- Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?
- The only thing that does is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 8 sentences
- You have remained humble, honest, and steadfast in your principles, never losing sight of the millions of women and children who have been abandoned and forgotten, caught in the turmoil of wars unleashed by warlords.
- But it seems that human beings can never really have enough wars and never really learn lessons of history, never really care.
- Friends are friends, we cherish and embrace our friends, never ignoring them or excluding them from the table.
- It is a mother who will spend the rest of her life searching for a face in a crowd that will never appear.
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 8 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.
- It is all too easy and all too great a mistake for us to fall in the trap that repelling the invasion of Ukraine becomes Another never-ending conflict.
- Malta will never accept that despair.
- Europe must never accept that despair.
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 7 sentences
- Any threat to the safety and sanctity of the Haramain Sharifain is a red line that must never be crossed.
- They silenced the enemy, repulsed its attack, and taught it a lesson it shall never, ever forget.
- Mr. President, we must therefore ensure that South Asia never reaches that precipice ever again.
- Helpless Kashmiri mothers and fathers yearn for their sons and daughters who never return.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 6 sentences
- but which has never lost sight of something fundamental, and that is the hope of building a better life.
- to finance myself, I had to ask multilaterals, I have to ask for resources that come late or sometimes never because the slow procedures that those multilateral organizations have mean that organized crime has an advantage when it comes to getting resources from drug trafficking, drug terrorism or the smuggling of gold to then destabilize our democracies.
- But Bolivia will never be on its knees.
- I would like to thank each of the departments in my homeland and tell you that Bolivia is the homeland that never abandons us.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- Never has humanity possessed so much wealth, knowledge and technological capability, yet for billions of human beings, progress remains out of reach.
- At every step, we have never compromised on quality and competence.
- Let's say with one voice, children must never become the test subjects for unregulated systems.
- And let us resolve that life and death decisions must never be surrendered to machines.
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- Humanity has never possessed such immense scientific and technological capabilities.
- And yet, it has never been more evident that technological capability does not automatically produce political wisdom.
- It was in those circumstances on our territory that the United Nations did something it had never done before.
- Never before has humanity had access to so much knowledge, but never before has it been exposed to so much manipulation, half-truths, fabricated images, propaganda, and organized disinformation.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- A government or an economy or technology or religion should never be used to suppress the fundamental human rights of another human being.
- And the might of a religious majority must never be used to suppress those who belong to religious minority.
- But let me make one point clear, our Christianity must and will never be an excuse to deny another human being the freedom of conscience.
- The faith of the majority must never become an instrument for the persecution of minority.
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- Haiti will never forget their solidarity nor their sacrifices.
- It is standing tall because the people's born in light have never given in to the forces of chaos.
- Haiti knows, because it felt it in its own flesh, that these gains are never definitively won, and that when they are under threat, one must have the courage to defend them.
- We need to be the masters of technology and never its subjects, and no people should ever be left behind.
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- We may never have the deepest pools of capital or the largest GPU clusters, but we can build better rules and be more agile.
- Power has never been equal.
- It never will be.
- But inequality of power must never become inequality of sovereignty.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Its credibility has never been lower.
- Its ability to protect the most vulnerable, those who have no army or arsenals, has never been so weak.
- We will never forget the millions of lives lost due to the negligence in the fight against COVID-19.
- As Pope Leo XIV warned, decisions about technology should, quote, "should never be separated from awareness and responsibility," end of quote.
Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- There has never been a time when communication between people in different parts of the world was so easy.
- We have never been so connected, and yet we seem increasingly unable to trust one another.
- And we have never forgotten that the peace could not be taken for granted.
- But reform must never become an end in itself.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 4 sentences
Slovenia · Janez Janša · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- Civilian suffering is tragic and must be addressed, but it can never justify terrorism or the pursuit of political objectives through violence.
- At the same time, criticism of government policy must never become a cover for anti-Semitism.
- The rule of law must never become merely rule by law.
- Russia was never effectively stopped.
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Our belief has never been tried to such an extent since 1945.
- And never since 1945 has the very legitimacy of states and multilateral bodies such as the UN been called into question to such an extent.
- Monaco will never recognize any annexation of territory obtained through force.
- And because science is being questioned, let us recall, as the Prince did in COP30 in Belem, that science has never been as certain, as accessible and as clear.
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 4 sentences
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 3 sentences
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Investment plummeted, employment ground to a standstill and homicide levels rose to an extent that Chile had never seen in modern history as a result of the rising tide of organised crime.
- It had never decreased.
- Chile will never renounce its sovereignty, neither will it to exploit its own minerals.
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- And of course, with her President speaking here, you never know whether this will be the low point or the high point of her career.
- It has never been a perfect system.
- International law has never been merely an effort to achieve universal justice, but neither can it be reduced to a mere instrument of domination.
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 3 sentences
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- The United Nations must prove that dialogue can bridge division, that international law must prevail over force, and that collective action achieves what unilateralism never can.
- Small and vulnerable states like ours should never bear the collateral economic cost of conflicts in which you have no part.
- We may be a small nation, but our voice, our sovereignty, and our aspirations will never be measured by our size on a map.
Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- It has been there all along, never lost, never absent.
- For Nauru, the ocean represents both opportunity and responsibility, never one without the other.
- Achieving that is a great challenge for an institution whose members remain deeply divided on whether deep seabed mining should proceed at all, a question the Convention never asked the Authority to decide.
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Madam President, Despite these concerns, the United Nations has never been more important than it is today in bringing about peace and stability to the world and enabling the international community to overcome new challenges and prosper.
- catastrophic consequences of nuclear weapons must never be repeated.
- Any attempts to unilaterally change the status quo by force or coercion are contrary to the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and must never be tolerated anywhere in the world.
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Partnership must never become pressure, and assistance must never come at the cost of the nation's values, institutions, or the freedom to choose.
- Let me remind you, our region must never be treated as an empty expanse for strategic competition or test of military power.
- It must remain an ocean of peace where nations meet in cooperation, international law is respected, and the security of the Pacific peoples is never compromised.
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Distinguished President of the General Assembly, distinguished Secretary-General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I take the floor on behalf of the Central African Republic with a full sense of responsibility bestowed by this podium and the pride of a people that has never given up hope.
- These crises never remain contained.
- We have never had so many reasons to act together, and we have never found it so difficult to do so.
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- The United Nations was born in 1945 from humanity's determination that the tragedies of war should never again define our common destiny.
- The United Nations must remain the place where the door to dialogue never closes.
- As world leaders, we come here every year to promote dignity, peace, justice, humanity, and cooperation in order to create a better world and we should never give up to fight for it.
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- So Yonai said, "What's going to happen?" He paused, and then he said something I'll never forget.
- 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.
- So Israel has never been stronger.
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- We have never been driven out of a desire to trouble anyone else.
- It has never brought war and it will not bring war against another country.
- Niger intends to fully exercise its sovereignty over its natural resources and will never again accept any restriction imposed from outside on its sovereign right to freely choose its partners.
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 3 sentences
Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 3 sentences
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- For more than a decade, this blind and sustained violence has been sustained armed, financed and instrumentalised by criminal networks and their supporters intent on subjugating the Sahel through fear, but they must understand that they will never succeed here.
- However, our cooperation will never be synonym of submission and our openness will never mean abandoning our own vital interests.
- That is that our organization will never be able to fully respond to the challenges of our time unless it remains true to the principles that led to its founding, the principles in force when the organization was created.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- This ridiculous and never-ending war with Ukraine must be ended.
- When Russia started this war, it could never have imagine that Ukrainian long-range drones would one day reach its factories, its military factories, somewhere in Siberia and on the Yamal Peninsula, thousands of kilometers from our borders, thousands.
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 2 sentences
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Georgia · Irakli Kobakhidzhe · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- The trials of history have also taught us that sovereignty can never be taken for granted, that stability must be protected, and the strength of the international order ultimately depends on the same principles being upheld for every nation.
- We believe that lasting partnerships are built through dialogue and never through pressure or coercion.
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Sweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Pakistan · · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Turning over to the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, Jammu and Kashmir never was, neither is, nor will ever be integral part of India.
- We will defend ourselves whenever aggression is imposed upon us, but we will never abandon the path to peace, for lasting strength lies not in the wars a nation can fight, but in peace.
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- The great waterfall that the peoples of Zimbabwe have for centuries called Mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders, the colonisers "discovered" it 150 years ago and named it after their queen, who had never even set foot in Africa.
- Many of those officials have never even been to the conflict zones, and they are much further away from them than any volunteer on the front lines.
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- My country today, I must say, works very hard to mobilize the resources that we need because the international assistance on its own, however great it is, never developed a country.
- We can see that the international assistance will never be enough and we need to mobilize our own resources and we need to have confidence that we will be able to have other sources of funding.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · 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
Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Argentina · · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Armenia · Nikol Pashinyan · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 1 sentence
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Guatemala · · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 1 sentence
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 1 sentence
China · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Japan · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Indonesia · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
China · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Chad · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 1 sentence