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194 sentences in 102 speeches for trade
Download CSVSingapore · 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.
- And yet, nearly a quarter of the world's seaborne trade passes through.
- In fact, free trade is another success story of the post-war multilateralism.
- Lower trade costs in these decades have boosted global real GDP by an estimated 6.8% and, in the case of low-income countries, by around 33%.
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- World trade, without a shadow of a doubt, is one of the best expressions of the freedom to produce, transport and trade products from one area, one nation to another.
- We're proud of being a country that connects the world through trade.
- This is going to be a reservoir of water to ensure that the canal can continue to be used and provide more predictability to international trade and water supply to hundreds of thousands of citizens.
- We are staunch defenders of sovereignty, after all, and we also have a treaty of neutrality for the canal, which is in our constitution, and which ultimately is the guarantee of free trade and the equality for this passage for all nations of the world.
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Mr. President, On 25th March this year, the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Ghana had the honour of tabling resolution 80/250 in this very august Assembly.
- Mr. President, 123 nations voted to affirm this fundamental truth that the transatlantic slave trade and chattel enslavement were the gravest crimes against humanity.
- It requires dismantling the persistent engines of exploitation, unfair global trade, predatory resource extraction, discriminatory credit ratings, unsustainable debt burdens of the global south, and the continued export of raw materials from Africa while real value addition and job creation occur elsewhere.
- The African Continental Free Trade Area, whose secretariat Ghana is proud to host, is our engine for intra-African trade, structural transformation, and industrial growth.
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- On this basis, we have developed the appropriate roadmap to support the private sector, provide the necessary legal, tax, and customs facilities and guarantees for the growth of business and foreign trade, and build effective partnerships with the global market to accelerate achieving sustainable development.
- It represents a vital gateway and a strategic corridor for trade, investment, industry, and energy, connecting the east with the west, starting from the Grand Al-Faw port to Turkey and from there on to Europe.
- When the countries of the region are connected, through ports, railways, power lines, trade and investments, they have a greater interest in preserving stability.
- We also call for support for efforts for the passage of trade through Iraqi territory with great facilities in order to provide alternatives to complex trade corridors.
Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Yet what is at stake here is not merely a technical issue of trade policy.
- A large part of its prosperity therefore depends on trade, but also on the stability and predictability of the rules that make such trade possible.
- Economic resilience requires us to diversify relationships, forge new partnerships, and keep trade between different regions of the world as open as possible.
- A producer who can trade beyond their local market.
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- For many years, we have engaged in dynamic trade in the free and open seas spanning the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean, and together we have built a strong and prosperous region.
- However, due to the recent intensification of geopolitical tensions, free trade has been hampered, and stable energy supplies and supply chains in general have been disrupted.
- For global energy security, It is crucial to ensure free and transparent energy trade, engage in international coordination on strengthening oil stockpiling, and enhance collaboration between producing and consuming countries.
- Next year, Japan will host the World Horticultural Exposition 2027 in Yokohama, which is an industrial trade fair showcasing green technologies and approaches to sustainable development.
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 4 sentences
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Africa, with its 55 states and more than 1,400,000,000 inhabitants, cannot remain on the margins of the bodies that shape the rules of global trade.
- On behalf of the African Union, I reiterate our continent's call for full and equitable representation within the World Trade Organization.
- With the African Continental Free Trade Area, our continent has already demonstrated its capacity to develop rules and to integrate markets.
- It is now up to global trade governance to draw on this.
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- We have also established bilateral trade.
- Strategic infrastructure projects along the Middle Corridor, spearheaded by Azerbaijan, including the Baku International Sea Trade Port and the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, are helping to create more resilient, diversified, and sustainable supply chains between Asia and Europe.
- This growth demonstrate the Middle Corridor's considerable potential as a key driver of regional connectivity, trade facilitation, and sustainable economic development.
- The Trump route for international peace and prosperity, another key outcome of the 2025 Washington Summit, is expected to facilitate an impeded multimodal connectivity between the main part of Azerbaijan and its Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and unlock new opportunities for regional trade, economic integration, and prosperity as part of the Xinjiang-Uzbek corridor.
Cameroon · Lejeune Mbella Mbella · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- We should also give new impetus to international trade, industrialization, and transforming raw materials locally as well as strengthening regional integration.
- And it is this energy that guided the work of the 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, WTO, which Cameroon had the privilege of hosting from the 26th to the 29th of March 2026.
- Cameroon also has the intention of contributing to the full expansion of the African Continental Free Trade Area, the acronym being AfCFTA.
- in order to strengthen development and trade cooperation among African countries.
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- These painful fiscal trade-offs come at the expense of investment, in the education and health, which should never be the case.
- As an import-dependent country, reliant on the Middle East for much of our food, fuel, trade, Somalia is already facing rising prices, inflation, and increasing transparency and insurance costs, while drought linked to climate change is affecting overall over 6 million people in Somalia.
- Somalia's membership of the East African Community, our leadership in the whole of Africa initiative, our ratification of the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area, and our continuing efforts toward its accession to the World Trade Organization, demonstrates Somalia's commitment to the regional integration and rules-based international order.
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Nigeria further recognizes the African Continental Free Trade Area as one of the continent's most transformative opportunities.
- It can strengthen regional value chains, expand intra-African trade, promote industrialization, and attract investment.
- The African Continental Free Trade area offers exceptional scope to deepen regional integration, accelerate industrialization, and strengthen our place in global value chains.
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Australia supports the rules and institutions that underpin open trade and connectivity.
- In our region, the Indo-Pacific, we are elevating relationships that help to build sovereign capability and offer nations sovereign choice, free from coercion, so that our partners can address the big issues confronting them: economic security, human development, energy security, transnational crime, sovereign capabilities, trade and investment, and science and technology.
- Australia has been consistent in our calls for a ceasefire and for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen and restore the freedom of navigation and trade.
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- A superpower unilaterally deprives all states of their right to export the commodities that they wish to the country that they wish to export them to, and continuously and comprehensively violates freedom of trade and navigation.
- We are prepared for trade, commercial relations with US corporations as we would be with any other country.
- The sister nations of Africa and the Caribbean deserve a fair and differentiated treatment, as well as reparations for the horrors of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade.
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Now let's add to that unfair global trade, where the rules are written to serve the interests of transnational corporations, and also illegal unilateral sanctions that are suffocating entire nations.
- Nevertheless, in the West, they are already beginning to ask questions about their many, they're now being held to account for centuries of colonial plunder for the destruction of cultures, traditions and identifies of enslaved peoples and for the slave trade, which claimed millions of lives.
- Third, reform of specialized UN agencies, first and foremost the international financial institutions, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the International Finance Corporation, the World Trade Organization.
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- In the economic realm, Canada is focused on what we can control, building a stronger economy, diversifying our trade, and catalyzing a trillion dollars of investment in Canada over the next five years.
- Thanks to our strategy for Africa, we are boosting our trade links with our African partners.
- That is why Canada announced earlier this month that we intend to restrict trade in goods with illegal Israeli settlements.
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Geopolitical competition is altering global trade and investment patterns.
- Zambia is positioning itself as an attractive destination for investment and trade with opportunities in mining, critical minerals, agriculture, agro-processing, manufacturing, energy infrastructure, tourism, and digital services.
- Our message to investors is, come to Zambia, invest with us, produce with us, trade with us, and grow with us.
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- The United Nations Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation 2027 to 2036, which was promoted by my country, the Republic of the Congo, Resolution 80/250 the transatlantic slave trade, recognizing it as a crime against humanity, which was promoted by Ghana, and the correct the map resolution promoted by Togo.
- The removal of the visas as of the 1st of January 2027 for Africans promotes free movement into African tourists and solidarity amongst African people, making our trade more inclusive, all the while promoting the African Continental Free Trade Area.
- From this region, countless people were torn from their families and homeland through the transatlantic slave trade.
Turkmenistan · Vepa Hajiyev · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- We proceed from the need to translate the agreements reached into concrete infrastructure, trade, and investment projects.
- We propose considering the establishment in Turkmenistan, under the auspices of the United Nations, of International Center for Sustainable Trade Logistics and Custom Cooperation.
- We are confident that its development would help diversify routes, strengthen connectivity, expand trade, and promote close economic ties among the regions.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 2 sentences
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- We are restoring our stability, building a more dynamic economy, a nation that wants to trade with the world and work together to solve the shared problems we face.
- So we have acted by banning trade in goods with illegal settlements, recognising that the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory is unlawful, and sanctioning those taking part in the construction of illegal settlements.
Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- No thought was given to the tens of millions of fellow human beings pushed back to extreme deprivation by COVID-19, Ukraine-Russia war, And as if innocent bystanders on the periphery had not suffered enough, we are presented with another catastrophe, the Iran war and disruption of vital waterways for trade.
- Trade relations between Cuba and the U.S. and the rest of the world could be improved.
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- These are peace, development, equality, the climate crisis, free trade, energy security and, more recently, artificial intelligence.
- 4. Equally, the institutional failure of global trade is today patently clear, because no nation can thrive in supranational systems which do not promote national industry and which prioritise outsourcing and award that strategy.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Ukraine, the Middle East, the Gulf, Sudan, the Sahel are not separate crises, nor are trade wars, AI competition, hybrid attacks, and their economic and social repercussions, nor is terrorism in all of its many forms, which we continue to fight in every corner of the world.
- Defending freedom of navigation means defending trade, jobs, growth, and dialogue, because where goods can move freely, weapons are less likely to do so.
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- The global economic environment remains particularly difficult for developing countries with decline official development assistance, high borrowing costs, disruptions in international trade, inflationary pressures, and food and energy insecurity, narrowing fiscal space, and threatening development gains.
- Trade must remain an engine of development, and developing countries must be enabled to participate more effectively in regional and global value chains.
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Georgia · Irakli Kobakhidzhe · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 2 sentences
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- We approach our leadership of a regional bloc that is home to a quarter of Africa's population, the Southern African Development Community, with a firm resolve to champion greater regional integration, industrialization, and trade.
- We want to increase trade amongst our countries so that our citizens can share in the prosperity of our region and our economies are better prepared to absorb the shocks of unilateralism.
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- During his term, the world confronted unprecedented challenges, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the eruption of new conflicts, the catastrophic effects of climate change, and unstable trade regimes throughout this crisis.
- We have accelerated reforms in business development, trade facilitation, public financial management, youth empowerment, and renewable energy.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Protracted armed conflicts, an energy crisis, and disruptions to global trade have been compounded by destabilization orchestrated by those who pursue their own selfish ambitions.
- A second tuna cannery at Bina Harbor, upgraded airports, agricultural treatment facilities to support trade, and expanded road networks and maritime ports will shift the trajectory of our economy.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- This is why we welcome the decision taken by the administration of President Donald Trump to extend through 2028 the trade preference known as Hope Help.
- And we call upon more countries to put in place similar mechanisms that are capable of transforming access to markets into opportunities for trade and investment.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- International conflicts far from our shores in Ukraine and the Middle East continue to have devastating consequences for our daily lives, disrupting agricultural trade and global food stability, and driving up fuel prices and shipping premiums.
- Whatever disagreements exist, the collective punishment of an entire population, denying medicine, denying trade, denying fuel, denying ordinary development, cannot be reconciled with the Charter we all signed.
Bahrain · Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Such actions would set an extremely dangerous precedent because what is accepted today in one strait may be demanded tomorrow in every international waterway upon which global trade depends.
- The Kingdom is proud to participate in the alliance as a founding member in support of efforts to safeguard international trade routes and global energy supplies in accordance with international law.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- We also call for the strengthening of the rules-based multilateral trading system and for fair, transparent and equitable mechanisms for resolving trade disputes.
- 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.
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Nearly 90% of world trade moves by sea, supported by close to 2 million seafarers, more than 25% of whom are Filipinos.
- From undersea cables carrying 90% of global data to strategic sea lanes and ports sustaining trade, to offshore facilities fueling economies, disruption of critical maritime infrastructure can send shockwaves across borders.
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Repeated armed confrontations in the Persian Gulf and the Hormuz Strait are ongoing, despite the fact that this is dealing a blow to global navigation and trade.
- We insist that the U.S. lift its siege on the island of freedom and lift all restrictions on trade with Cuba, striking it off the list of that vile list, list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Saudi Arabia · Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- The stability of this vital region is directly linked to global energy security, the steadiness of international trade, and the resilience of global supply chains.
- Mr. President, the In light of the rapid developments the world is witnessing in the field of regional and international trade, there is need for ensuring continuous trade influx, especially from the east to the west.
Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- This need for inclusiveness is particularly important in the Gulf of Guinea, a maritime area whose importance to international trade is growing by the day.
- Gabon therefore welcomes the adoption of UN General Assembly resolution 80/250 on the African slave trade, characterizing it as the gravest crime against humanity.
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- In this regard, the Confederation of Sahel States welcomes the adoption in March 2026 by the General Assembly of the resolution recognizing the transatlantic slave trade of enslaved Africans and the system of racial servitude as the gravest crime against humanity.
- Reform of global governments must also transform the international financial architecture, more equitable representation for developing countries in international financial institutions, fair treatment of debt, access to real financing for development, more equitable international trade and respect for national priorities.
United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Amid growing threats to navigation in our region and beyond, my country has continued to emphasize the principles of freedom of navigation and the right of transit passage, We stressed the need to secure and protect the safe flow of supply chains, trade and energy in accordance with international law, including the law of the sea and the principle of state sovereignty, recognizing these as pillars of food security, development and prosperity of nations.
- This is complemented by the empowerment of human capital, building a knowledge and innovation-based economy, and the harnessing of the opportunities offered by the comprehensive economic partnership agreements concluded between the UAE and 38 nations and other frameworks to diversify markets and supply chains and to broaden horizons for trade and investment.
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 1 sentence
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Rwanda · Justin Nsengiyumva · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Armenia · Nikol Pashinyan · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 1 sentence
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Oman · Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi · Day 5 · 1 sentence
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 1 sentence