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346 sentences in 102 speeches for small
Download CSVVanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 23 sentences
- Your visits to our region reflect an understanding that the concerns of small island development states deserve to be heard at a higher level.
- Vanuatu hopes that the next Secretary-General will carry forward that same commitment to all member states, large or small.
- For small states, this is deeply concerning.
- Small states do not possess the military, economic, or technological capabilities of major powers.
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 14 sentences
- No nation is too small to be sovereign, no people too poor to be equal, and the strong should be bound by the same law as the weak.
- The message to small nations is very clear.
- Similarly, a nation should never be too small to be left behind.
- 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.
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 13 sentences
- Through a decade of turbulence, he has defended multilateralism and stood with small island developing states, and Fiji thanks him dearly.
- For small island developing states, distance no longer insulates us from the global shocks.
- For small states, the principles of the charter, sovereign equality, territorial integrity, and the peaceful settlement of disputes are the safeguards against a world in which the size of military strength decides whose rights matters.
- When the world asks small states to choose between competing power blocks, Fiji chooses principles.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 12 sentences
- We thank you for standing up for small and vulnerable nations.
- The theme, Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation, a United Nations that delivers for all, speaks directly to the anxieties of our time, and also to the hopes of small states like mine.
- We are a small democratic multi-island Caribbean nation committed to multilateralism and the peaceful resolution of disputes.
- We also feel enormous strains imposed on small nations.
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 12 sentences
- For small island developing states, these are questions of survival.
- He understood what we small island developing states have been telling the world for decades.
- He returned to Antigua and Barbuda for the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States.
- He never relented in demanding a fairer world and he constantly placed the concerns of small island developing states before the international community.
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 10 sentences
- For a small size country like mine, this is not an academic question.
- Perhaps that is why small countries sometimes see international politics differently.
- Great powers have room for strategic shifts that small-sized states simply do not have.
- For a small-sized country, the same mistake can mean a lost decade.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 10 sentences
- Mr. Secretary General, you have been a true champion of multilateralism and of small island developing states.
- For small island economies, these are not distant events.
- Mr. President, as a small island developing state, our vulnerability remains a fundamental reality.
- Redirecting even a small share of this spending would fully capitalize the Pacific Resilience Facility and the Loss and Damage Fund.
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 9 sentences
- In 1979, 54 years after the creation of the of this United Nations, my country Saint Lucia, though small in geography, but large in courage, dignity, and conviction, took its seat among the community of nations, brimming with hope, optimism, and trust in the promise and goals of this body.
- For small island developing states, these crises are not abstract.
- While the world focuses on headline grabbing events like monster hurricanes, melting glaciers, and tidal waves, climate change is affecting Saint Lucia daily in small but significant ways, such as the unusual bouts of drought in the rainy season, unprecedented floods in the dry season, and stifling of our beaches and coastlines by sargassum.
- A loan is not justice when a small vulnerable nation is forced to borrow to repair damage it did not cause.
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 9 sentences
- Small countries do not choose their geography or their size.
- But small does not mean powerless.
- A democracy that has learned to resist interference, an emerging economy a country contributing to stability on Europe's eastern frontier, and a small state willing to experiment, reform, and move quickly.
- Being small imposes constraints, but it can also be an advantage.
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 8 sentences
- For more than 80 years, This organization has embodied humanity's highest collective aspiration, that countries, large and small, rich and poor, can work together to prevent conflict, protect human dignity, and improve the lives of their people.
- Mr. President, in 2017, Category 5 Hurricane Maria demonstrated with devastating force the vulnerability of small island states like Dominica.
- It demonstrates that small states can lead in the transition to clean energy.
- And together, let us demonstrate what a resilient small island economy can look like.
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- It will be restored by what this organization delivers for every country, large or small.
- This small state can be highly vulnerable to external threats and acts of influence.
- In response, this Assembly adopted resolution 44/51, an initiative led by the Maldives, affirming the importance of protecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of small states.
- This is why the Maldives comes before this Assembly with a clear message: every state, large or small, must have the freedom and capacity to shape its own future.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- The United Nations reminds us that whether we are big or small nations, rich or poor nations, developed or developing, Powerful or less powerful, we are all members of one international community.
- The United Nations provides a place where small nations can sit alongside the largest, where a voice can be heard, and where we can work together on the common challenges facing humanity.
- Thank you for being a strong voice of not just Papua New Guinea, but small nations, especially my small Pacific Island nations.
- Economic decisions made in the world's largest economy can reach an ordinary family in a small developing country.
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- For small island developing states like ours, the question is immediate.
- But our experience proves that small states are not powerless.
- With investment, partnership, and political will, small nations can deliver big solutions.
- We are investing in resilient infrastructure, but no small island developing state can adapt indefinitely to a crisis the world continues to intensify.
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 7 sentences
- It speaks directly to our realities of our small islands in Micronesia.
- Instability in the Middle East and volatile fuel prices are the vulnerability of small island developing states to expensive fuel, unstable supply, a widespread economic fragility.
- This impact imposed disproportionate cleanup and economic burdens on small island governments whose waste management infrastructure is inadequate.
- Doing so would unlock fair access to concessional financing that reflect structural vulnerabilities faced by small, fragile, and highly exposed economies, such as the small island states.
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 7 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.
- For a small state, cooperation, rule, and dialogue are precisely what allow sovereignty to be exercised and protected.
- And it must be a multilateral that works, that protects the weak as well the strong, on that apply the law equality, and one that give every state, large or small, a meaningful voice.
- For small state, international law is our protection.
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 7 sentences
- For small states like ours, a rules-based international order is not an abstract diplomatic preference.
- Small states have long served the international system as bridge builders, consensus makers.
- But no level of prudent national planning can fully insulate a small developing state from a climate event of that magnitude.
- And therein lies the fundamental inequity faced by small island developing states.
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- For small developing states such as ours, trust depends on institutions applying agreed rules consistently, honouring commitments, and ensuring that those most affected by decisions have a meaningful voice in shaping them.
- Transnational organized crime, continues to pose a serious threat to the security and development of small island states.
- Small states face serious challenges from sophisticated criminal networks that move people, that move weapons, that move narcotics, and illicit finance across national borders.
- The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago intends to bring the perspective and experience of a small island developing state to the council.
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 6 sentences
- 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.
- And the choice of its next Secretary-General will be, in no small measure, its choice about the kind of United Nations we wish to leave to the generations that follow.
- We need leadership capable of restoring trust without compromising principles, of listening without surrendering conviction, of building bridges across the widening chasms between north and south, between large states and small, between the developed and developing world.
- An Indigenous woman coming from a small Indigenous village, defying the odds, the odds against Indigenous persons the odds against women, the odds against poverty, defining every challenge and rising to the top amidst those challenges.
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- The credibility and effectiveness of multilateral institutions is imperative for small nations.
- Pacific Island leadership and that of all small island developing states as we find every multilateral milestone for oceans and fisheries, and we will continue to do so.
- 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.
- The international community is not listening closely to small island developing states, and it is not responding fast enough.
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- And restoring that trust in that architecture is critical, particularly for small island developing states like Tuvalu, whose sovereignty and future are anchored in that very architecture.
- Mr. President, For the Sustainable Development Goals, SGG, Tuvalu is seriously concerned that the world is not on track to achieve them, because the consequences of such shortfall will be acutely felt by small island developing states.
- Yet, it is the most fundamental to the survival and prosperity of small island developing states.
- Mr. President, Tuvalu, like other small island developing states, is highly vulnerable to climate and economic shocks, but the international financing architecture is ill-equipped to respond effectively to those shocks.
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- It has built one instrument at a time, the body of international law on which every state in this hall, large or small, now depends.
- Vulnerability should be legible in financial decision-making without small states being required to prosecute their own case again and again.
- But Taiwan's contribution does not stop at the borders of our small and steadfast allies.
- We hold no illusion that a small state can resolve these crises.
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- Excellencies, for Cabo Verde and other small island states, The climate crisis is not a distant threat, it is a present reality.
- In January 2027, Cabo Verde will take over the presidency of the Alliance of Small Island States, AOSIS.
- We will take on this responsibility by working for the unity of small island states, the implementation of the Antigua and Barbuda agenda for fairer financing, for climate adaptation, and for ensuring that the oceans remain at the heart of the global agenda.
- In 2034, we will host the fifth International Conference on Small Island Developing States.
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- Such coalitions already serve large and small economies alike.
- And in July, 19 small and medium-sized trading nations of the future of investment and trade partnership met in Auckland, not to negotiate a grand bargain, but to systematically reduce trade frictions and to strengthen supply chain resilience.
- For small states, this entails especially developing our people equipping them with the skills necessary to master and deploy AI quickly, widely, at scale and safely.
- We will continue to contribute through platforms such as the digital pillar for the Forum of Small States and by making our governance frameworks and testing tools available to all.
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- Her election would represent a historic milestone for Caribbean region and a powerful affirmation that every region including small island developing states can contribute to leadership at the highest level of a multilateral system.
- It means respecting the voices of small states as much as those of large ones.
- Mr. President, as a small island developing state, Grenada understands resilience.
- Small island developing states should not be viewed simply as victims of climate change.
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- Small states like ours do not seek strategic competition.
- 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 island developing state, but we sit as an equal participant in this hall.
- For small island states, that sustainability is a matter of national survival.
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- Excellencies, we are gathering in this hall of nations, countries large and small, some insanely rich, too many shockingly poor, but all enjoying equal voting rights.
- Every time we let the suffering of people become background noise, we let ourselves forget how small the distance really is, how little separates your daughter, granddaughter, niece, from the girl in the refugee camp you saw on the news last night, how many children right now are learning that a world at war is normality.
- Mr. President, Excellencies, For developing countries, particularly small island developing states and least developed countries, efficiency must translate into stronger delivery on the ground, not reduce essential support.
- We are a small island developing state, a least developed country, and a nation whose history demonstrates both the necessity and the possibilities of multilateralism.
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- As a small island nation, we stand as a consolidated democracy and a state governed by the rule of law, grounded in peace, stability, and harmonious coexistence among our citizens.
- Mr. President, for small island developing states, geographic, economic, financial, and social vulnerabilities are compounded by the effects of climate change.
- We also maintain that the vulnerability of small island states should be assessed beyond per capita income, taking into account their specific characteristics and structural constraints.
- Excellencies, the experience of Sao Tome and Principe as a small democracy also shapes the way we view representation at the international level.
Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- It may seem a small courtesy, but it means a great deal at home.
- The Asian Development Bank, ADB, weighs vulnerability alongside income, and its own policy names my nation as the clearest example of why income alone conceals what small island states face.
- Mr. President, small states are increasingly asked to choose between partners, between blocs, between competing visions of the world.
- And we deliver for all only when you deliver for the small.
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Your climate leadership, steadfast defense of multilateralism, international law, human dignity, and the voices of the vulnerable carries a special meaning for small island developing states.
- Small island states, young people, scientists, civil society, indigenous communities, and responsible partners have already raised climate ambition, accelerated the shift to renewable energy, and exposed the true cost of inaction.
- We have called for ambition that matches science, demonstrated that ocean stewardship can protect while supporting livelihoods and insisted on a stronger voice for small island states in decisions that shape our future.
- Under the UN Charter, small states are sovereign states with the right to determine their own future, choose their partners, and pursue development that serves their people.
Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- This achievement is clear evidence that even small states can make a meaningful contribution to addressing global challenges.
- The negative consequences of unjustified unilateral sanctions also affect small countries such as ours, which are at the stage of formation and development.
- Therefore, Kyrgyzstan stands fully ready to serve with the United Nations as the voice of small and developing countries in addressing the climate-related challenges affecting mountainous regions.
Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- We do this humbly, but firm in our conviction, our conviction that a small country can offer up a different perspective, can bring different positions closer together and help find common ground when this is particularly difficult.
- 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.
- Small island developing states already experiences consequences that threaten their very existence.
Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- For small-sized countries, the principle of equality of states is fundamental, and it has formed the binding trust between us.
- And in a rapidly changing world, small size states must seek synergies while continuing to pursue strategic autonomy.
- And we believe that small-sized states have a particular role to play, not on the margins of international affairs, but as active participants in shaping our common future.
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Small island developing states equally confront threats that now reach squarely into the council's mandate.
- In the growing age of AI, governance cannot be left to voluntary corporate practices or to a small number of technologically advanced states.
- Now, that figure seems small to you, but that actually generates an estimated $62 billion more a year in excess interest payments each year.
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- When a climate-driven disaster destroys infrastructure of a poor country, the answer cannot simply be another mega loan or a patchwork of small grants.
- This is why we need United Nations, in which presence of small, poor country is felt and we can work together towards outcomes.
- It is about whether the future of mountain communities, small island states, landlocked and least developed countries, and generations yet unborn count equally.
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- We did so driven by the conviction that we, as one of the smallest members of the international community, should be part of the most important conversation on global governance, with the participation of all states, big or small, in developing international norms and standards, and also in upholding respect for them.
- To this end, we also decided to make our own contribution to make best use of the opportunity offered to us as a small state to be an active part of the biggest peace project in the history of humankind.
- We hope that both small and medium-sized states will come together in our common interest for a strong multilateral system on the basis of respect for international law.
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 3 sentences
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Bhutan · Tshering Tobgay · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- For small and medium-sized countries, just like the Republic of Serbia, such an environment represents an enormous challenge.
- The attack against the small yet free and freedom-loving country Serbia, of which I am the proud President, was carried out with the intention of finally destroying the UN order established after the world World War II and formally and informally confirming the dominance of at that time unison Western world of United States of America and Europe.
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- He will be essential for that voice to defend the aspirations of developing countries, particularly small island and vulnerable states, and to foster collective responses to the challenges we share.
- For a small island state such as ours, income indicators alone do not capture our multidimensional vulnerability.
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Through inclusive multilateralism, all states, large or small, particularly developing countries, must have the opportunity to participate equally in global decision-making.
- In recent years, Azerbaijan has significantly expanded the scope of its international aid, with particular attention to small island developing states and African partner countries.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- The graduation of countries, including small island developing states, should be encouraged and supported and not prejudice access to affordable finance.
- For small open economies such as Mauritius, which depends on maritime trade routes for over 90% of its primary energies imports, and more than 70% of its food supply, these effects are felt acutely.
Cambodia · Sokhonn Prak · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- All member states, large or small, are equal before the Charter and are bound by the obligation it establishes.
- And for the United Nations to deliver results for all, Every Member State, whether large or small, developed or developing, must see its dignity, its voice and its future reflected in this Organization.
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 2 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.
- As a small island developing state, we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters who share similar circumstances.
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 2 sentences
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- On the contrary, its legitimacy is achieved when the organization is really truly able to preserve and save people's lives and to ensure a decent future for all people and this is something that El Salvador has firsthand experience in Mr. president for decades my small but great country was known for a reality that it seemed impossible to change the scourge of violence was deeply entrenched in our society.
- Number three, that the size of a country, we're a very small country, does not determine the size of our responsibility and that the future does not necessarily have to belong to those that have the most power, it belongs to those who dare to engage in transformations with a sense of determination.
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- while safeguarding our neutrality we placed Humanity above all else as president thean has reiterated we will never hesitate to protect Humanity if there are actions that must be taken to protect human lives we will not hesitate to take them under any circumstance this Mr. President is the Sri Lanka we wish to bring before the world, a small island nation with a big heart which believes that even in times of conflict and profound division, there remains space for humanity.
- For many of us in the developing world, the United Nations is also an expression of a fundamental promise that every nation, large or small, has a voice, that every people has a right to dignity and development, and that in an interdependent world, no country should be left to confront global challenges alone.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 1 sentence
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 1 sentence
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · 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
Eswatini · King Mswati III · 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
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 1 sentence
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 1 sentence
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 1 sentence
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 1 sentence