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465 sentences in 132 speeches for power
Download CSVSecretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 45 sentences
- They are chapters of the same story, the story of power.
- Excellencies, Power is being reshaped in three fundamental ways.
- Second, we are witnessing an extraordinary transfer of power away from governments to handful of private corporations and individuals.
- 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.
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 13 sentences
- Security will no longer depend on armies and borders, but also on power grids, data centers, cables, satellites, algorithms, and trust in the information we receive every day.
- Great powers have room for strategic shifts that small-sized states simply do not have.
- For a great power, a mistaken geopolitical calculation may mean a change of a strategy.
- Power is being redistributed.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 13 sentences
- The might of military power must not suppress the weak.
- The might of economic power must not suppress the poor.
- Human rights have the greatest meaning when they protect those with less power, minorities, the vulnerables, the vulnerable communities and individuals whose beliefs may differ from those of the majority.
- With greater power comes greater responsibility.
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 11 sentences
- And this has made it so that the path that we have chosen for ourselves requires power to defend ourselves.
- We do not seek power in order to attack or commit aggression.
- They are our source of power and our support, and that's why we stand fast.
- We do not wish to use our power for hegemony, and we do not seek our security in the insecurity of others.
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 10 sentences
- Last year, from this very podium, I stated that foreign policy is based on three pillars: values, interests, and power.
- This order, as it turns out, is based on zero-sum deals, transactions, and unrestrained power.
- It will turn against us, whether you represent a great power, a middle power, or a small state like Finland.
- A new order must be based on a realistic understanding of the power balance in the world.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 10 sentences
- We need to rebalance power in our country and bring it closer to people.
- Not just through hard power, but through softer, slower means that sow fear and despair.
- We will be relentless in building up our hard power and deterrence.
- We work with China and emerging powers like India and Brazil.
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- Political change is a decision about who holds the power.
- Power.
- Two and a half thousand years ago, the envoys of Athens sit before the small island of Melos and told his people a simple truth about power.
- It happened because the balance of power in the room was changed.
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 8 sentences
- Madam President, Excellencies, our world is undergoing a profound disruption, characterised by great power contestation, the wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, Africa, We're witnessing the rise of trade barriers, supply chain disruptions, worsening climate change, and a new industrial revolution driven by digital technologies, biotechnology, and renewable energy.
- Our interstate relations are increasingly dictated by raw power, where the outcomes are determined on the basis of size, leverage and coercion.
- But point I wanted to make is that even the more powerful states would ultimately pay a price, because hard power on its own cannot secure supply chains, protect populations from pandemics, or stabilise a warming planet.
- Even big powers need partners to secure their long-term national interests.
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 8 sentences
- Major power rivalry is sharpening.
- They have heard overt threat over use nuclear weapons, and they are seeing their government choose not to regulate AI and the many ways it is being abused, but instead give it more power.
- In such chaotic times, the only way to course correct is to rebuild trust in the power of proactive governance and multilateralism.
- For centuries, Global power was concentrated in states.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 8 sentences
- 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.
- We welcome genuine partnerships, but we also say clearly, the Pacific must not become an arena for great power competition at the expense of Pacific priorities.
- The decisions taken by major powers affect the smallest economies.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- Every speaker has described the return of imperialism, of arrogance, the return of unrestrained force which knows no rules, a world in which we see power concentrated in the hands of the few, a world in which some believe that they can undermine the international order so as to push their borders outwards, those that believe that people's sovereignty can be toppled over, that they could use that sovereignty, people who believe that they can decide the fate of the planet, whether that be as regards the climate or AI.
- It is our charter that prevents the power wielded by some from making decisions for others.
- We undertook those negotiations working hand in hand with the great powers, that's the BBNJ agreement.
- There are some who wish to make us believe that only two powers, the US and China, will be taking the decisions.
Czechia · Petr Pavel · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- For decades, shifts in global power unfolded within this largely predictable framework.
- Power has always been unevenly distributed.
- When rules are cast aside, raw power fills the vacuum.
- A world dominated by great power competition is a volatile world, less able to address the most pressing challenges of our time.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- In a world in constant flux, the trust of our peoples in multilateralism begins when the law is applied uniformly, regardless of geography, economic power, or alliances.
- Its governance should not be the sole remit of certain powers or corporations.
- Africa has proven itself over time to be a demographic, diplomatic, and geopolitical power, a vital one, but it still remains inadequately represented where decisions are being made about the world's future.
- Any change to its presence must be determined by the conditions of security on the ground, the strengthening of national capacity, and the guarantee that no vacuum of power will remain to the detriment of populations.
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- Our history has taught us that difference need not mean division, that coexistence requires dialogue and negotiation, and that those without the power to compel must learn the power of persuasion.
- We cannot move swiftly to reorganize offices and reporting lines while allowing the most consequential questions of power and representation to remain unresolved.
- But let us also reform the exercise of power.
- It is about how power is exercised.
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- Mr. President, your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, Anne Frank was a teenage girl without power or influence, which had a pen and a diary, a diary that would make its way into the world and inspire millions of people.
- And I think that one of the reasons people are so inspired by Anne is that she had an unshakable belief in the power of people to turn the tides so that good prevails.
- And when major powers choose to pursue only their own interest, it is tempting to respond defensively.
- And the middle powers must take the lead in fostering such international cooperation.
Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 7 sentences
- When a technology has the power to fundamentally change the world, possibly even determine the fate of humanity, we need to ask who controls it, who sets the rules, who is accountable.
- A technology with seemingly unlimited power.
- Such power carries responsibility not only towards customers, shareholders, or governments, but also to humanity.
- And wherever power becomes global, responsibility must become global too.
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- Delivery worthy of the UN Charter must reach those farthest from power and recognize the equal worth of every nation and every human life.
- The credibility weakens when institutions entrusted with the law preserve an unequal distribution of power.
- Developing countries need fairer voting power, stronger representation, and increased capital within these institutions, together with affordable finance, concessional resources, and fairer debt treatment.
- Their legacy continues to be reflected in enduring disparities in wealth, power, and opportunity across our world.
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- Dismantle your nuclear capabilities, And you lose the only deterrent you have against a nuclear power deciding to bomb you into submission.
- Invite all nuclear powers and all major conventional military powers and industries, without exception, to a summit somewhere, maybe a town in Portugal, to talk on no first strike, and hence, regular communication between leaders of the nuclear powers.
- All this happened before our eyes, but from the powers that can make the difference between life and death, there is no response.
- No country, regardless of size or power, can address today's interconnected challenges alone.
Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- We meet today as the world undergoes a profound transformation, not only in the balance of power, but in the very concept of power and the ethics of its use.
- Mr. President, Libya paid a heavy price when regional and international balances of power were transformed into balances within its own territory.
- Temporary deals cannot do so, nor can fragile settlements that collapse whenever the balance of power shifts or loyalties change.
- Experience has taught us that fragile settlements can begin to unravel as soon as the balance of power shifts or their outcomes emerge.
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- No one in this room needs reminding that international politics is shaped by power and by interest.
- It draws a line around what power may be alone to do.
- We depend on states keeping their word, on agreements surviving changes in the balance of power, and on borders not being redrawn at gunpoint.
- Passage cannot depend each time on a fresh contest of power.
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- That is why Paraguay has opened a channel of dialogue with the Venezuelan authorities and is already taking action towards a Venezuela in which power resides with its one true sovereign, the Venezuelan people.
- We cannot wait for the United States or some northern power to resolve our problems.
- It is not the great powers or the wealthiest who pay the price.
- It affects the microchips that power industry, defense, and artificial intelligence.
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- As this very assembly has determined in numerous resolutions, the principle of self-determination does not apply in this case since the population was implanted by the occupying power on a territory whose sovereignty is in dispute.
- is that emergencies eventually pass, fear passes, generations move on, but the institutions and powers created on the pretext of those alleged emergencies remain.
- Granting it control over innovation means granting some people in the best and most naive of cases, the power to limit what everyone else can create.
- History gives us reason to scrutinize such power carefully for centuries.
Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- The law must apply even to those in power.
- They expect public life to change, rule of law, a state that serves rather than controls, courts that decide without pressure, a press that challenges power, and public money that is used for public goods.
- There must be accountability for corruption and abuse of power, but there must be no revenge.
- A republic begins when power accepts its limits.
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- 193 states that have signed up to the UN Charter, that have signed up to one essential principle, that relations between states are not governed by sheer power, but by rules.
- Today, this commitment is being tested by conflicts, by shifts in power, by new technologies, and our global institutions are struggling to keep pace.
- For more than 80 years, this organisation has stood for one answer: power must be bound by rules agreed together.
- Some will say that agreement is impossible when technology moves so quickly and major powers distrust one another.
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- Skepticism, the legitimate questioning of those who hold power over people's lives, is the lifeblood of a democratic society.
- The sheer spread and the sheer power, the sheer speed of artificial intelligence is mind-blowing.
- It is that belief in the power of trust which underpins the values that brought me into public life.
- It is that belief in the power of trust, even now, when it can seem a commodity in all too short supply, that convinces me that ultimately it, trust, will prevail.
Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- What artificial intelligence does instead of us, what it does to us, and who gains the power to reach us.
- Reach is the power to place that idea before millions of people.
- It means revealing the hidden powers seeking to control what people are made to see.
- A moratorium observed by responsible states will not restrain hostile powers, criminal international networks, or industries of manipulation.
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- One year ago, over 2 million gallon per day, solar power desalination plant was nearing completion.
- On the island of Nevis, we are advancing a 30 megawatt geothermal power development with drilling expected by early 2027 and Icelandic drillers contracted to begin the process.
- But the AI divide also concern computing power, data research, skills, energy, cybersecurity, and capital.
- Developing countries need affordable computing power, infrastructure, skills, and safeguards for privacy.
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 5 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.
- When power is not enough to protect you, rule matter.
- These principles are not optional, and they cannot depend on the size of a country or the power of a government.
- Justice cannot depend on political power.
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- Unilateral coercive measures are increasingly being imposed, and the logic of power is once again reasserting itself, eclipsing the virtues of dialogue and disregarding the benefits of consensus and understanding.
- It lies in the transformation of the exception into the rule, to a situation where the rules of international law become applicable at times and suspended at others, subject only to the dictates of power balances.
- We stress that correcting the historical injustice suffered by Africa requires permanent and fair African representation in the Security Council with full powers.
- That hope quickly faded and was extinguished in light of the occupying power's continued settlement policies and its customary disregard for concluded agreements and commitments made.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- This inherent flaw in the UN Charter granted the great powers the luxury of the insensible.
- I'm no stranger to the realities of power, but concessions to the law of the stronger have surpassed all limits.
- In Latin America and the Caribbean region, geographical proximity to the world's greatest military power is inescapable.
- We are building a Brazil where women don't need permission to occupy positions of power or enter the job market, a country free from femicide, where no woman, inside or outside their home, lives under the threat of violence, where Once again, no woman inside or outside their home lives under the threat of violence.
Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Is it still possible to build a world order in which respect and the willingness to work towards common goals can prevail over the pursuit of self-interest and power?
- My longstanding commitment to the Scout movement has taught me a great deal about the power of intergenerational dialogue, solidarity, and the values of the Scout movement.
- It's whether a child is safer because of our decisions, whether a young person can receive an education, whether a family can live in dignity, whether a small country can believe that international law will protect it when power alone cannot.
- We need to recognize this reality, but we should not mistake a world of competing centers of power for a more just or stable international order?
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Amid a shifting balance of power and intensifying geopolitical competition, innocent civilian lives are being lost around the world every day.
- Japan has also launched the Partnership on Wide Energy Resources Resilience Asia, Power Asia, to strengthen energy and resource supply resilience in Asia and has been promoting cooperation in areas such as stockpiling capacity development, and credit provision.
- Such capabilities include establishing the basis for the production and engineering of materials such as green steel, utilizing the world's most efficient gas fire power generation, and popularizing the adoption of energy efficient data centers.
- We will enhance these efforts with a view to strengthening the resilience of the energy supply demand structure and vigorously advance the policy package for wide energy and resources resilience through green transformation or power GX.
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- For us, sovereignty is lived in our ability to feed our people from healthy oceans, power our homes independently from distant fuel markets, and protect our shorelines from rising seas and chart our own path.
- Resilience must also transform into how we power our homes, move our people, and connect our islands.
- How we protect our ocean, confront climate change, and power our islands leads directly to how the world engages with us.
- Let me remind you, our region must never be treated as an empty expanse for strategic competition or test of military power.
Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- It directs all of us, irrespective of power, size, and leverage.
- Great powers have scale, Smaller states must have persuasion.
- UN resolutions cannot be upheld in one case and disregarded, fully disregarded, in another, And the sovereign and territorial integrity of a state cannot depend on its size, its power, or the passage of the time.
- We can allow differences in power to determine whose voice matters, or we can reaffirm the principles on which this organization was founded.
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Concurrently, Our world is undergoing transformation driven by technology, climate change, demographic shifts, and changing patterns of economic power.
- Botswana comes to this podium with a power and weight of genuine conviction.
- Respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity, and equal dignity of every nation, regardless of its size, wealth, or military power.
- This extends to critical minerals, rare earths, and energy resources that power the technological revolution, many of which come from developing countries.
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Peace over war, law over force, sovereign equality over dependency, cooperation over division, and human dignity over ambitions of power.
- Yet, on the gravest question of war and peace, Five nations possess a permanent power that the other 188 do not.
- A power project should not cost more simply because of the passport of the country it is building.
- Not a United Nations of some nations, not a system in which power determines whose voice matter, but a United Nations worthy of its name, where every nation has a voice, every people have a stake, and every child has a future.
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 4 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 are therefore entering a period marked by a more complex and less predictable distribution of power in which the risk of potential conflict is greater than it has been for decades.
- The boundary between peace and conflict is becoming ever less distinct, while the consequences of confrontation among global and regional powers increasingly affect even those countries that are not directly involved.
- And I want to warn all of you, all of you here who belong to the global south, pay the utmost attention while signing all the agreements with great powers.
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 4 sentences
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- We understand that the UN mission cannot be entrusted solely to the great powers or the biggest countries or even the loudest voices alone.
- Mr. President, a safer world is one governed by rules, not by power and force alone.
- We will amplify the voices of small states and middle powers to ensure a wider range of perspectives shape the Council's decisions.
- As a middle power, Australia is showing leadership and working with others on fresh ideas to tackle the big issues now facing the world.
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- It can be undermined when external powers limit a state's freedom to choose.
- Regional competition among major powers must not limit the choices of smaller states.
- No state should be shielded from accountability by its power or political alliances.
- We also know that international law is our strongest safeguard against unequal power.
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Iraq aspires to exercise its influence and have an impact as an effective economic power in the region, and as a bridge for dialogue and cooperation among the peoples of the region.
- We are striving to ensure that the state is the ultimate decision maker in matters of peace and war, and that weapons and tools of power remain in the hands of its constitutional institutions.
- When the countries of the region are connected, through ports, railways, power lines, trade and investments, they have a greater interest in preserving stability.
- In today's world, we find the weak being oppressed because it is the law of the powerful that governs, not the power of the law.
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- And we need a renewed international compact based not on power, but on principle.
- History is not behind us when its consequences remain embedded in wealth, power, institutions, and opportunity.
- Mr. President, technology is the new form of power that is rapidly transforming the world.
- Oceans of water separate us from the global powers, but our challenges are mainly connected to decisions made in the capitals.
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Multilateralism allows us to project the power of our ideas rather than the might of our power.
- The Pacific must not become a staging ground for military escalation or a battleground for major power rivalry.
- But the Pacific's data ocean, biodiversity, critical minerals, and traditional knowledge must not power the next technological revolution while returning only a fraction of their value to our people.
- Not that all nations would be equal in power.
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- These are symptoms of the same disease, a growing belief that power matters more than principle, a growing temptation to seek national advantage at the expense of common rules.
- It's a common investment in a system that reduces risk, friction, and cost for everyone, including the great powers.
- Both wars reminds us about the limitations of military power.
- For 80 years, it has proved a space where nations can negotiate instead of fight, cooperate instead of confront, and build rules instead of yielding to raw power.
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- For the first time since the 1970s, there are no longer any legally binding limits on strategic arms between the major nuclear powers.
- If all those with great power had acted as Truman said, we would have avoided many wars and conflicts.
- During the Cold War, the balance of power was maintained by a system of checks and balances between the two opposing political systems.
- Voting quotas in financial institutions must reflect the demographic and economic realities of the 21st century, rather than the post-war balance of power.
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- Great powers are walking away from global economic cooperation, dismantling economic integration.
- Great powers want the rest of us to accept what we are offered.
- We are already forming these coalitions with small states, middle powers, and great powers alike.
- And we will lead other middle powers to act collectively and decisively, because middle powers are playing a key role in building the framework for the new international order, which is being established as we speak.
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- And it's an admission that our organization is struggling to adapt to the changes The huge changes that we're seeing of a world in constant evolution and an admission that our organization, unfortunately, is no longer there for everyone, but belongs more and more to actors chosen according to their power and their vested interests.
- 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.
- The inability of the Security Council to prevent or resolve in a lasting way these crises reveals the limits of a system that too often protects the interests of powers to the detriment of human life.
- in the way that it redistributes votes, responsibilities and powers.
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 3 sentences
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- That event of great significance for the history of my country took place in a global context in which Angola became a victim of confrontation between world powers in the struggle for control of sphere of influence within the spirit of Cold War.
- At a time when good governance of countries is widely advocated, the governance of the world likewise calls for a new, more democratic and just world order, one that is not only based on the power of the restricted club of victors of a war that took place eight decades ago.
- It is therefore becoming increasingly pressing and urgent to undertake a profound reform of the UN Security Council, in which Africa, Latin America and Asia should adequately be represented as permanent members with all the powers inherent therein.
Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- The Republic of Korea will build on the power of empathy and solidarity that culture has brought to light.
- We will harness that power to address the common challenges facing all of humanity.
- The Republic of Korea can testify more vividly than anyone else to the noble power of solidarity embodied by the United Nations.
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- The shift in the balance of power and development inequalities are placing growing strains on international relations.
- From our own history, Vietnam understands the cost of war, the value of independence, and the power of reconciliation and cooperation.
- Major powers should lead by example in respecting international law, exercising restraint, and responsibly addressing common challenges, and the UN must remain at the heart of these efforts.
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Some of these measures include implementation of the national renewable strategy that comprises of a 2, 115 megawatt Julius Nyerere hydro power project of 650 megawatts of solar and wind power projects.
- 130 megawatts of geothermal power projects and the National Clean Cooking Strategy which aims to ensure that 80% of households adopt clean working by the year 2034.
- Mr. President, in conclusion, I wish to underscore that the UN must not merely reflect on the balance of power, but serve as a platform for justice, solidarity, and progress.
Bhutan · Tshering Tobgay · Day 1 · 3 sentences
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 3 sentences
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, the injustices of the past remain embedded in today's power structures.
- The veto power must never serve as a license for impunity.
- And so Ghana remains an uncompromising beacon of constitutional democracy, media freedom, the rule of law, and peaceful transitions of power on the African continent.
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- At a time when confidence in international institutions is declining, and they're often perceived as favoring power politics over law, Our organization must rise above partisan interests.
- and whose populations face declining purchasing power.
- It is time to move beyond power politics and establish a new human ethic that transcends divisions of race, color, and belief whilst safeguarding our shared ecosystems.
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Nigeria stands by the charter and its promise of a world in which diplomacy prevails over coercion, cooperation over isolation, and international law over arbitrary exercise of power.
- for the world of 2026 cannot remain captive to the distribution of power in 1945.
- Developing countries must recognize as indispensable partners whose contributions to global solutions and shared prosperity extend power beyond their need for assistance.
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- We must do everything in our power to accelerate the deployment of renewables and to reduce fossil fuel production and consumption with equal speed.
- Mr. President, the crisis has the power to divide us or to prove that we all remain willing to achieve common goals.
- As fuel and energy costs are rising beyond our ability to respond, impacts from bigger power plays halfway around the world are amplified tenfold in small, remote economies.
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- There is an urgent need to restore adherence to international law to avoid policies based on power, polarization, and double standards.
- It also requires recognizing Palestinian rights as inalienable rights, not as bargaining chips to be granted or withheld according to power balances, political posturing, or electoral calculations.
- Yet, it may also create a vast new divide in power linked to computing capacity, data, models, skills, and financing.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 3 sentences
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Broader representation of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the Council, as well as greater voice for developing countries and for middle powers, is a moral imperative.
- Kazakhstan advocates the relaunch of high-level dialogue among nuclear powers and is ready to host one of their next meetings.
- Mr. President, the growing role of middle powers in global affairs is opening new avenues for practical cooperation to achieve SDGs.
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 3 sentences
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- 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.
- 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.
- The National People's Power Assembly at that meeting adopted a new program.
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- There are attempts for Bosnia and Herzegovina to be unitarized, the Serbs to be unitarized and forced to give up their constitutional powers, which were guaranteed by the Dayton Agreement, together with the Security Council.
- The former Axis powers ratified this document, and thus they recognized their responsibility for these countless atrocities, a result of Nazi ideology and practices.
- Thus, Chancellor Merz is stating that Germany must once again be a leading military power in Europe.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- The global military and political context is worsening day by day, and the unlimited abuse of power has become commonplace.
- Thus, the regional balance of power maintained by the DPRK's self-defensive capabilities effectively curbs the risk of an armed conflict.
- It further highlights the immutable truth that just power means national sovereignty and prestige and fundamental guarantee of peace and stability.
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 3 sentences
Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Your Excellencies, while we're doing everything within our power to address the situation through diplomatic efforts, we have strengthened our steadfastness to defend our sovereignty, our territory, and our people, and the foundations of normalcy.
- When the extent of global public revulsion at the practices of the Israeli occupation becomes evident, Instead of looking in the mirror, they resort to hurling accusations indiscriminately in all directions, at times invoking accusations of anti-Semitism and at others resorting to conspiracy theories and accusing other powers and states of being responsible for creating their negative image.
Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- The question is whether relations between states will continue to be governed by common rules, or if they will increasingly depend on the weight and power of each individual state.
- This reform must make the UN more coherent, more effective and more results-oriented, while respecting the powers and responsibilities of Member States.
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- I wish to reiterate to this General Assembly the need for Latin America and the Caribbean to have places with greater decision-making power in the Security Council, specifically a permanent seat, a permanent member of the Security Council of this organization.
- Ladies and gentlemen, in a world marked by strategic competition between the great powers, Panama as a result of our history and beliefs, chooses to remain the meeting point where humanity can build a future of peace and shared development.
Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- This is exactly what drives the significance of multilateralism, not as a diplomat convenience, but as a living shield rooted in sovereign equality to address the shifting tides of power politics.
- As one of the powerhouse of clean energy with a total potential of 60,000 megawatts, Ethiopia targets to generate 13,000 megawatts by 2030, aiming also to scale up our energy supply across East African power pool and beyond.
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- The manual digest, one of the great works of our traditional heritage, through which Antoni Fiter i Roset condensed and recounted the essence of Andorran identity, reminds us that the legitimate exercise of power only makes sense when it places the common good above any other interest.
- On eight occasions, I have had the honor of bringing the voice of my country to this forum, sharing its convictions and defending its interests with the certainty that the greatness of a nation is not measured by its size, nor by its economic or military power, but by the strength of its values and by its willingness to contribute to the common good.
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- We need a Security Council that reflects the geopolitical realities of the 21st century, not the power structures of 1945.
- Let us therefore build a United Nations that does not merely reflect the world as it is, but help create the world as it ought to be, a world where law restrains power, cooperation overcomes division, and every human being can look to the future with hope.
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Slovenia · Janez Janša · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- The abuse of religion to justify or reinforce such control is another example of how principles can be distorted when institutions and political power are placed above the rights and dignity of individuals.
- Distinguished delegates, the multilateral system was created to prevent power from replacing principle.
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Given this situation, Togo would like to reaffirm its firm belief international law is not an obstacle to power.
- Togo thus defends a pragmatic type of multilateralism that transforms commitments into results that scaffolds power dynamics with shared rules and organizes the peaceful coexistence of interests.
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- When nations begin to believe that rules are applied differently depending on power or circumstance, the instinct is to turn inward and act alone.
- We owe them a world in which cooperation remains stronger than conflict, where dialogue remains preferable to confrontation, where international law does not bend according to size or strength, and where justice is not determined by power.
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Power is shifting, conflicts are multiplying, and there is a growing tendency to treat the rules and institutions of the international system as constraints belonging to another age.
- The generation that founded the United Nations had seen firsthand what could happen when restraints on power collapsed.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 2 sentences
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
Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Guinea · Mamadi Doumbouya · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Uganda · Jessica Rose Epel Alupo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 1 sentence
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Armenia · Nikol Pashinyan · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 1 sentence
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Bahrain · Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Mexico · Roberto Velasco Álvarez · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 1 sentence
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 1 sentence
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Japan · · Day 6 · 1 sentence