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🇳🇷Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 7 sentences

• Today, I focus on a part of it that belongs to no one, the deep seabed area beyond national jurisdiction. 9:14:53Copy
• Mr. President, the convention established the International Seabed Authority and charged it with a clear legal obligation to put in place regulations and regulate activities in parallel with sponsoring states. 9:15:00Copy
• We are participating in the first contentious proceedings before the Seabed Disputes Chamber because our obligations as a sponsoring state require legal clarity. 9:16:41Copy
• 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. 9:17:15Copy

🇲🇭Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• As an ocean people, the consequences of getting it wrong are not from distant impacts, but adjacent to our waters, particularly in the North Pacific, both within the International Seabed Authority and unilateral actions. 2:11:37Copy
• We are joined by Guam, Northern Marianas, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau in expressing our alarm at seabed mining actions where the decisions are made before impacts are well understood and where adequate safeguards remain undefined. 2:12:02Copy
• The Marshall Islands joined 45 nations seeking a moratorium on seabed mining. 2:12:23Copy

🇺🇿Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• New Uzbekistan is creating green areas on the dried seabed to reduce the scale of this problem. 12:36:10Copy

🇲🇨Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• We now need to translate these commitments into acts to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030, to finally agree on an ambitious and binding agreement on plastics pollution, and exercise extreme caution with regards to deep seabed mining. 1:55:09Copy

🇼🇸Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Coupled with unchecked exploitation of deep seabed mineral resources, our oceans face a crisis of limitless proportion. 8:52:18Copy

🇲🇺Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• reaffirm our unwavering commitment to UNCLOS as the legal framework governing all activities in the oceans, including the seabed and subsoil beyond national jurisdiction. 11:14:23Copy

🇫🇲Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Mr. President, on deep sea mining in the international seabed area, Micronesia employs a precautionary approach. 43:36Copy

🇱🇰Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• We look forward to the further operationalization of the agreement, complementing the processes of the International Seabed Authority. 2:46:04Copy