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Download CSVSolomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- Electricity, food and essential services, placing a heavy burden on communities that have no buffer against external shocks.
- The completion of 161 telecommunication towers across the country will lift national broadband coverage from 56 to 86 percent, expanding access to information, education, and digital financial services.
- That is money our essential services urgently need, now diverted to deal with the impacts of this climate extreme.
- The UN80 reform process must strengthen the organization's effectiveness and relevance without diminishing its presence, services, or support in the most vulnerable regions where assistance is needed most.
Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- We did it to make public services more accessible, procedures more transparent, and the state more accountable.
- Artificial intelligence inside an accountable state can reduce the distance between citizens and public services.
- This is systematic fraud as a service.
- We need artificial intelligence that is verifiable, transparent, and accountable, built by free society, shared among allies, and placed in the service of citizens.
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- I also extend Micronesia's appreciation to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for your dedicated and steadfast service, principled leadership, and personal commitment to the values of the United Nations.
- We remain committed to delivering effective public services and advancing Micronesia priorities for our citizens, wherever they reside.
- We are mainstreaming gender across state and national planning, strengthening survivor centered services, expanding women's economic empowerment, and decision making and engaging in preventing gender-based violence and advancing equality.
- Mr. President, on youth, I'd like to say that our youth are taking active roles in community advocacy, climate stewardship, adaptation and mitigation activities, and services across our nation.
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Antonio Guterres, when you leave this building on December 31, 2026, you will take your place among the great Secretaries-General, whose legacies will continue to inspire young people around the world to follow your example of service to those most in need.
- The Science for Development Summit 2026 was held in Delhi, August 2026, under the theme, Science in Service of Life.
- We brought into Timor-Leste more than 20 Nobel laureates, scientists from around the world, leading thinkers to explore how science, technology, and innovation can be placed at the service of humanity and the sustainable development.
- The same spirit of using knowledge, education, and human potential in the service of peace will also guide the chess for peace tournament playing for Dili, Timor-Leste in January 2027.
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- The classroom competes with debt service.
- And too often, the creditor, debt service, is paid first.
- When debt service displaces investment in education, we are not merely balancing budgets.
- It requires that no child lose a classroom because debt service came first, that no mother finds an empty clinic because essential investment became unaffordable, and that the resources of developing countries became foundations for their prosperity rather than pathways for extraction.
Uganda · Jessica Rose Epel Alupo · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Many developing countries lack sufficient financial resources to fund their development needs, with a disproportionate share of revenues directed towards debt servicing rather than critical public infrastructure and social services.
- Uganda fully supports the ongoing intergovernmental negotiation on the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation and its protocols on cross-border services and tax dispute resolution, and we urge all member states to negotiate constructively.
- This includes modernizing health centers, upgrading regional referral hospitals, and integrating digital health solutions to improve service delivery and accountability.
- Ambassador Olara Otunu brings over four decades of distinguished service across the UN system, international diplomacy, and public administration.
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- I also wish to commend outgoing UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, for his dedicated service to our world body over the last 10 years.
- governments are forced into a tragic choice to service predatory debt or to serve their people.
- This strategic investment is opening up the length and breadth of our country, bridging the rural urban divide, unlocking agricultural potential, and guaranteeing equitable access to basic services for every Ghanaian, no matter where they live in our country.
- And so Ghana has officially launched a historic free primary health care program ensuring that every Ghanaian can access essential primary health care services at their community level at zero cost.
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- I take this opportunity to record Guyana's gratitude to the Secretary General, his excellency, Antonio Guterres, for his distinguished service to the United Nations, and to the cause of humanity.
- Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digital communications, and other extraordinary breakthroughs offer the prospect of transforming health, education, agriculture, productivity, and public services on a scale scarcely imaginable a generation ago.
- In Guyana, we have made significant advances including universal health care, free education, modern infrastructure, accelerated access to affordable housing, opportunities for full employment, acceleration of financing for small and medium-sized enterprises and digitizing service delivery.
- We believe that her experience, her convictions, her record of service speak directly to the kind of leadership this moment demands.
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 4 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.
- We are moving forward with sustainable core solutions in order to increase performance efficiency and improve providing services.
- And accordingly, We are working to employ all successful expertise and innovative experiences in the world of economics, finance, and business in service of a renaissance of economic and financial reform for my country.
- In this context, our vision aims to move Iraq to a stage where it can be an effective production partner in the region by gradually reducing the role of the rentier economy, strengthening open market policies, developing production and export capacities, and investing in infrastructure and services.
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- The regime continued building a vast missile and drone stockpile that threatened the security of every American service member in the region and everyone else in the region.
- Iran's Supreme Leader celebrated that massacre and called it a "service to humanity."
- We will never allow U.S. service members or anyone else to be investigated or given show trials by an anti-American tribunal with no jurisdiction over us.
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- wonderful 44-year career in the Finnish diplomatic service, and she will retire in the month of October, and I would like to thank her for her services.
- For example, Gaza continues to be one of the world's most acute humanitarian emergencies, marked by mass displacement, the destruction of infrastructure, and the lack of essential services.
- I would like to thank Secretary-General Guterres for his service and his dedication to reforming and rationalizing the UN system.
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- in the hope that with his vast experience and profound knowledge of our organization, he will render a valuable service to the United Nations, which is facing complex challenges that must be overcome in order to retake its key role in addressing the major issues of contemporary international relations.
- Those countries rendered a great service when they freed humanity from the horrors of Nazism, fascism and the Holocaust, and should therefore preserve that capital and legacy as liberators.
- Today, peoples and nations have an opportunity to make a qualitative leap in their overall living conditions through fair financing mechanisms for development and tools provided by artificial intelligence in order to improve education, health, agriculture, public service, scientific research and economic productivity.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Its forests, landscapes, freshwater, and biodiversity, provide humanity with considerable ecosystem services.
- However, it ought to be accessible, predictable, and proportionate to the services rendered.
- Putting the UN at the service of all means ensuring that no people is too far away to be protected or too deprived to be heard too rich in resources to remain sovereign.
Mauritania · Mohamed Salem Merzoug · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- We try to promote the synergies and develop our economies to limit poverty and provide the basic services to the most needy.
- We have also expanded the medical services through establishing a Medicare fund for all those who are not currently covered with medical insurance.
- We provide certain basic medical services to the most in need, especially mothers the mothers, the elderly, and those with disabilities.
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- And finally, I wish to express our sincere appreciation to Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, for his commitment over the past 10 years in the service of our organization and in the service of peace, development and human rights throughout the world.
- Public spending is increasingly directed today towards a structuring productive investment, better access to basic services and training and employment for young people and women in particular.
- The time has come for us to assume our shared responsibility for a reformed United Nations, refounded, I was going to say, that's how vast the scope of work is, a United Nations that is more just, more representative, and truly the service of all of the people in the world without distinction.
Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Justice Chizumira is a distinguished jurist with extensive judicial legal experience at the national, regional, and international levels, including her service as a judge of the African Court on Human and People's Rights.
- We are confident that her extensive judicial experience, commitment to the rule of law, and demonstrated service to justice and human rights would enable her to make a meaningful contribution to the work of the court.
- For developing countries, including Malawi, AI offers opportunities to strengthen agricultural productivity and food security, improve healthcare and education, enhance climate resilience and disaster preparedness, expand financial inclusion, and improve the efficiency of public service.
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- His Excellency Antonio Guterres has continued his service until the last speech he delivered here early last week.
- We recognize the men and women who serve under the United Nations flag, particularly those who have lost their lives in the service of peace.
- Nation building, state building, and service delivery have, therefore, have to proceed simultaneously.
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Syrian Arab Republic · Ahmad Al-Sharaa · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Leading global companies have established manufacturing, engineering, technology, and service centers in my country, attracted by our conducive business environment and highly skilled workforce.
- This candidature reflects Romania's will to put its experience to the service of Francophonie, making it more strong and more efficient.
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- When nations spend more to service debt than invest in education, job creation, or provision of healthcare, trust in the system erodes.
- Therefore, Developing countries must have a meaningful voice in setting the standards and safeguards that will govern these technologies, ensuring that they expand opportunities, support decent work, and strengthen public services while protecting human dignity, rights, and security.
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- that the loss and damage fund become fully operational and accessible, that adaptation financing should no longer be the forgotten stepchild of climate finance, and that the countries of the Congo Basin, the second largest lung of the planet, should finally be justly compensated for the services they provide to humanity by protecting their ecosystems.
- Population of Burao has more than doubled, exerting intolerable pressure on water resources and on already strained services.
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Faced with these recurring humanitarian emergencies, amplified by climate change, considerable investments are made reflecting the unwavering commitment of our development partners, working every year towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, the SDGs, whether that be fighting hunger, providing education or providing access to basic services for vulnerable populations.
- Our country remains a committed and operational partner in the service of peace, development and security.
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- I also commend Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for his continued service to the United Nations and his steadfast in defense of multilateralism.
- Ensuring free and fair navigation through the strait is therefore essential to protecting vulnerable economies like Somalia and sustaining stability, advancing development, and delivering basic services.
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- The Colombian Geological Service confirmed that this was the strongest magnitude earthquake recorded in Colombia so far this century.
- The government deployed to the affected areas alongside the security forces, emergency services, volunteers and rescue workers, and From the very beginning, we started receiving the generous assistance from friendly countries and international organizations, such as all of you.
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Cote d'Ivoire hopes that this process will result in the appointment of a figure of the highest caliber, whose moral values, independence of mind, diplomatic experience, and commitment to dialogue will enable the United Nations to pursue with ambition and effectiveness its mission in the service of peace, development, and solidarity among nations.
- The challenge now lies in our collective ability to mobilize them and to channel them with greater equity, solidarity, and effectiveness in the service of sustainable development.
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- We continue to strengthen our health systems across our widely dispersed and remote islands, improve access to essential services, and address both communicable and non-communicable diseases.
- Kiribati is proud to contribute in our own way to international peace and security through the service of our police officers under the United Nations flag.
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- And as this United Nations embarks on its ninth decade of service, the need for a step change in how the international community works together, solves problems together, is arguably needed more acutely now than ever before.
- I know that I am preaching to true believers, Mr. President and Mr. Secretary General, when I say that there must be no let up, no slowing down, in the relentless drive for reform of how this United Nations and its agencies does its business and delivers its services.
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- I wish to take this opportunity, Mister President, to thank the outgoing Secretary General, Antonio, Antonio, Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez for his sterling service especially his steadfast solidarity with the Caribbean.
- Her distinguished record of public and international service speaks directly to the kind of leadership this moment demands.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Resolution entitled Promoting Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals through Transparent, Accountable, and Efficient Public Service Delivery.
- Azerbaijan's innovative ASAN and DOS models of transparent, accessible and citizen-centered public service delivery have gained international recognition and are increasingly being adopted by dozens of partner countries.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Nowhere is that promise to universal social protection more concrete than in our health services.
- As non-communicable diseases and a rapidly aging population place growing pressure on our health system, We are strengthening public healthcare through major investment, improved service delivery, expanded specialised care, and a greater focus on prevention.
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- In health care, We have expanded and refurbished facilities, strengthened regional services, and made progress in the comprehensive treatment of chronic diseases and cancer.
- Alongside the revival of road projects and public works in historically underserved communities, the National Digital Connectivity Plan now provides internet service to 383 public entities.
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Through the adoption of successive measures, the government of the United States has been applying new prohibitions on all countries with regard to products and services that cannot be exported or transported to Cuba.
- It's even gone as far as the United States exerting unseen pressure on sovereign governments so that they renounce the medical services they requested from us for the benefit of their respective populations, and which are offered by Cuban professionals altruistically because the US government is opposed to such cooperation.
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- My appreciation also extends to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for his continued service to this organization.
- It also means ensuring They have the security and stability to build their lives with confidence, supported by strong communities, quality health care and essential services, social protection, and a cohesive, resilient society.
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- for his wise leadership in the service of peace, security, development, and justice, and for his tireless efforts to preserve the standing of the Organization and restore confidence in multilateral action at a time of extraordinary international complexity, when maintaining the effectiveness of the United Nations has become a demanding responsibility.
- The United Nations we seek is one that leaves no one behind, does not define need according to selective political criteria, and places justice, equity, and solidarity at the core of its services to all.
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Djibouti alone cannot meet the growing needs for shelter, food and essential services.
- As the mandate of the outgoing Secretary-General, His Excellency Antonio Guterres, draws to a close, I should like on behalf of my president, His Excellency Ismael Omar Guelleh, to express our profound gratitude for his years of service to the UN.
Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- I wish to assure you right now of my delegation's full support and express the hope that your term of office will be marked by a spirit of listening and dialogue and by the tireless pursuit of compromise in the service of international peace and cooperation.
- Gabon, a country with extensive forest cover and a low deforestation rate, as well as being a major carbon sink, therefore calls for greater recognition of its contribution to global climate regulation and the ecosystem services that it provides to humanity.
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- We therefore call for fair and predictable compensation for ecosystems and carbon services, for innovative sustainable financing mechanism, increased capitalization of the Blue Fund, and for the recognition of the Congo Basin as a global priority and with the strengthening of international cooperation aimed at preserving it.
- These technologies must remain in the service of humanity, progress, and the empowerment of peoples.
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Our profound appreciation for his service to this organization and to the international community in general.
- How can countries realize their potential when debt services, repeated shocks, and high borrowing costs consume the resources needed for schools, hospitals, and resilient development and transformation?
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Leader after leader recognized the extraordinary potential of AI to transform public services, accelerate scientific discovery, advance sustainable development, and expand access to knowledge while pointing out potential risks arriving from it.
- Let us govern and promote technological transformation in the service of humanity.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 1 sentence
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 1 sentence
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · 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
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 1 sentence
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Bahrain · Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Belize · John Briceño · 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
Saudi Arabia · Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud · Day 5 · 1 sentence
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 1 sentence
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 1 sentence
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