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156 sentences in 75 speeches for weapons
Download CSVUkraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 9 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, last year, speaking here, I said that we are living in a time when weapons decide who survives.
- And I've said, if an Asian wants peace, it must work on strong weapons.
- And our great soldiers and our weapons are working for this, only for this.
- sanctions, support, packages, our joint weapon production, all of these matters, of course matters, all of this makes us stronger.
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- Small states face serious challenges from sophisticated criminal networks that move people, that move weapons, that move narcotics, and illicit finance across national borders.
- We intend to place particular emphasis on the curbing of the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons.
- Although the region doesn't manufacture these weapons, the availability fuels gun violence, organized crime, drug trafficking, and loss of life across our societies.
- While serving on the council, Trinidad and Tobago will advocate for greater international cooperation to address the sources, movement and diversion of illicit weapons, stronger tracing mechanisms, information sharing, border and maritime cooperation, and deeper cooperation among source, transit and destination countries to disrupt weapons, narcotics and illicit financial flows.
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- These children perished under bombs with weapons used by the United States and Israel.
- The United States, by using weapons with multiple warheads, targeted that sports hall.
- America and Israel attacked us equipped with the latest technology and weapon systems, and our people stood steadfast.
- We seek energy for progress, not to threaten societies with weapons.
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- San Marino strongly condemns the use of explosive weapons in populated areas and calls for all states to implement the Political Declaration on Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas.
- There can be no acceptable nuclear threat or acceptable use of nuclear weapon.
- San Marino remain committed to a world free of nuclear weapons.
- We support the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- At the very heart of our aspiration for a world without nuclear weapons lies the earnest plea of the hibakusha.
- catastrophic consequences of nuclear weapons must never be repeated.
- It is Japan's mission, as the only country to have ever suffered atomic bombings during war, to lead the efforts of the international community towards a world without nuclear weapons.
- Japan strongly calls for solidarity within the international community to maintain and strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime, to which both nuclear weapons states and non-nuclear weapons states are parties.
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- One of the most urgent threats today is the loss of human control over weapons.
- Today, weapons with increasing autonomy are already used on the battlefield.
- We therefore need international rules for autonomous weapons built around one clear principle No machine may decide to take a human life.
- For this reason, Austria joins the UN Secretary General and the President of the ICRC in calling for a legally binding instrument with clear prohibitions and restrictions on autonomous weapons.
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Those countries amassing nuclear weapons keep us all living near imminent catastrophe.
- All the while, the brandishing of these weapons reinforces adversity and fear, which create a high barrier to achieving rational cooperation necessary to fulfill our responsibility to future generations.
- Commitment on reduction of nuclear weapons towards total deactivation and destruction of nuclear arsenals over a decade.
- Let every weapon fall silent so every child can grow up knowing the sound of peace.
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, 80 years ago, the first resolution of the General Assembly called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
- Later this year, South Africa will preside over the first review conference of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
- As the only country in the world to have voluntarily dismantled its nuclear weapons program, South Africa stands ready to share this experience as a demonstration that, with political will, credible and verifiable nuclear disarmament is achievable.
- We are also deeply concerned by the wielding of economic weapons to coerce countries into abandoning their chosen developmental trajectories.
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Our small planet is home to more than 12,000 nuclear weapons, each one capable of untold damage and sorrow.
- This year marks 35 years since the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, 30 years since the CTBT opened for signature, and 20 years since the signing of the SIPRI-Palatins Treaty on nuclear weapon-free zone in Central Asia.
- Nuclear weapons states must never confuse the absence of agreement with a vacuum of obligation.
- They remain responsible until we secure a world free of nuclear weapons.
Sudan · · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- The UAE does not support the RSF just by weapons, but also they work on disintegration of the various Sudanese components through the role they are playing to destabilize the region using sectarian and sectarian strife and hatred, and also by destabilizing our role in different institutions and by trying to destroy our neighborly relationship using media campaigns and using artificial intelligence and targeting the dignity of the Sudanese people.
- and trying to have a parallel administration in Nyala, and using ethnic cleansing, and using foreign mercenaries that attack Sudanese armed forces, also by counterfeiting Sudanese currency, and smuggling critical minerals, and disrupting energy, electricity, and water networks, and other acts of vandalism that target dams and food storage facilities, and using disinformation, and using about using chemical weapons.
- The weapons used by the RSF militia are in line with weapons that were exported by the UAE, such as the Houser Hounds 55-millimeter gauge.
- and that the UAE delegations have facilities in Chad that are used as transit for Illusion 1176 planes to move mercenaries and weapons, and then move on to Nyala Airport.
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Security requires us to limit the risks posed by weapons of mass destruction and by their proliferation.
- Bulgaria remains determined to strengthen international nonproliferation, disarmament, and arms control architecture, as well as the three pillars of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
- We support the goal of a world without these weapons.
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- The second was to reclaim its national decision-making, so that no authority stands above that of the state, no weapons exist outside its armed forces, and no decision on war and peace is taken outside its constitutional institutions.
- In that spirit, we did not merely affirm the principle that weapons must be exclusively in the hands of the state and that decisions on war and peace rest solely with its constitutional institutions.
- It equally requires the extension of the authority of the Lebanese state through its own forces over the entirety of its territory, with weapons held by the state alone.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- We must confront the reality of arms trafficking including assault weapons that are terrorizing Haitian communities and indeed communities across the Caribbean.
- We don't make these weapons in the Caribbean.
- We therefore call upon all countries to take decisive action to stem the illicit flow of weapons and ammunitions across borders and into the Caribbean.
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Therefore, from this UN hall, we reaffirm that comprehensive, lasting, and just peace in Sudan, in a manner that ensures the non-recurrence of conflict, cannot be achieved without ending persistent external interference, halting the flow of weapons, ammunition, and mercenaries into Sudan, dismantling the terrorist militia, stopping its attacks against civilians, cities, civilian objects, infrastructure, dams, medical centers, and hospitals, disarming this militia, and ensuring that arms remain exclusively in the hands of the state and its established legitimate national institutions.
- The international community's silence and its failure to take steps to deter the atrocities and violations committed by the rebel militia in Sudan, despite the availability of documented and credible evidence, and its disregard for legitimate calls to designate it as a terrorist organization, and its failure to take decisive measures to stem the flow of weapons, material, and mercenaries supporting the terrorist militia across our borders are the factors that prolong the war and encourage the militia's continued aggression.
- Pressure must be exerted on the regional sponsors and certain neighboring states that have not merely facilitated the transfer of weapons, equipment, and supplies to the militia through their territories, but have also created battlefronts and enabled repeated attacks launched by militias and mercenaries from within their territories in broad daylight and established hospitals along their borders to treat militia casualties.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Under the signboard of counterattack capability, Japan has buckled down to the development and possession of long-range attack weapons that put neighboring countries within striking range.
- I'd like to reiterate the official position of the DPRK government, the status of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a nuclear weapons state, that has been uncompromisingly and permanently fixed both physically and legally with absolutely no turning point, can never be reversed in any circumstances or by any means, no matter how hard and loudly the hostile forces may deny in chorus with all sorts of rhetoric.
- The DPRK will continue to strictly control and manage every external threat by dint of its supremacy in overwhelming strength, and be all the more faithful and committed to our mission as a responsible nuclear weapons state to firmly defend the national sovereignty and fundamental interests and to guarantee peace and security of the region and beyond.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- We ask the next Secretary-General to work with us to preserve the integrity of the global disarmament framework, particularly on weapons of mass destruction.
- The DPRK's nuclear weapons and missile programs continue to threaten its region and beyond.
- Halting the NPT's deterioration also requires concrete action from nuclear weapon states, to, at long last, chart a path towards total, verifiable and irreversible nuclear disarmament.
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, trafficking in persons, weapons smuggling, asset laundering, cybercrime and illegal mining transcend national borders and undermine democratic stability, development and the rule of law.
- We did that because we believed that international law could offer greater security than weapons.
- Costa Rica abolished its army more than seven decades ago because it believed that international law could offer greater security than weapons.
Sudan · · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- As for your allegations, the representative of the UAE that Sudan used chemical weapons, this allegation, which was adopted by the UAE intelligence services, that the Sudanese government used chemical weapons, this is part of the targeting that we are being subject to without any technical standards.
- What are the technical standards that you have, representative of the UAE, what do you have that you can use to convince me and to prove that we use chemical weapons?
- Any false allegation outside of this is a political not scientific nor legal allegation and this is what is obvious from the false allegations of the UAE which they reiterate to Target the saf which are fighting against militia funded by the UAE that kill their people rape their weapon rape their women destroy their infrastructure and use uavs against them day and night therefore You must be disgraced for this.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 2 sentences
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- It neither produces nor possesses nuclear weapons, chemical or biological weapons that could constitute an imminent or real threat to the national security of other countries, including the neighboring countries.
- No weapon is more powerful than diplomacy, since all others are used only to destroy lives, infrastructures, dreams and life plans, whereas diplomacy is the only weapon that exists to unite, repair, build and save lives, peoples, nations and humanity itself.
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- For instance, more than three decades ago, in pursuit of its foreign policy to ensure national security through political and diplomatic means, Mongolia declared its territory nuclear-weapon-free.
- In this spirit, the United Nations General Assembly adopts on a biennial basis the resolution entitled "Mongolia's International Security and Nuclear-Weapon-Free Status" initiated by Mongolia in 1998.
Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- We will go beyond building a Korean Peninsula free from war and nuclear weapons to promoting stability and cooperation in Northeast Asia while actively contributing to global efforts to build a world free from war and conflict.
- In this process, we will begin with a stop to further advances in North Korea's nuclear and missile capabilities, followed by their reductions in the medium term, moving toward a Korean Peninsula free from nuclear weapons over the long term.
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- The rule of force, such as witnessed by Croatia during the brutal aggression and occupation of more than one quarter of our territory in the 90s, in the war which claimed nearly 20,000 lives, and after which, more than three decades later, Croatia continues to search for 1,725 missing persons, a poignant example that the consequences of war do not end when the weapons fall silent.
- Renewed nuclear rhetoric makes a firm commitment to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons more important than ever.
Syrian Arab Republic · Ahmad Al-Sharaa · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 2 sentences
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Because the best argument for multilateralism is what it delivers on peace and security with the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, on climate action with the Paris Agreement, on poverty and health with the global response to COVID-19.
- It is essential that Iran never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- We aspire to a peaceful world, a humane global community, where rather than weapons of destruction, reason and debate, diplomacy, education and humanity become the instruments of change.
- As a peace-loving nation, Bangladesh remains committed to the goals of complete and general disarmament, preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and arms control.
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- The pioneers who built this institution from the ruins of war proud Australians among them, were also coming to terms with two terrible truths: the horrors of the Holocaust and the unprecedented horror of nuclear weapons.
- And we continue to call for Iran to halt its indiscriminate attacks on the region and to abandon any program to obtain nuclear weapons.
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- For Pacific people, the consequences of nuclear weapons are not merely historical.
- As state parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of nuclear weapons, we remain committed to advancing the treaties and humanitarian objectives and establishing an international trust fund for nuclear weapons victims.
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Mr. President, the United Nations is long overdue to reflect and renew the same spirit with which our Marshallese people first came to the United Nation by delivering an apology and acknowledgement of the harm caused by impacts from the 67 nuclear weapons tested on our islands during our time as a UN strategic trust territory between 1946 and 1958.
- The United Nations ultimately allowed the testing to continue, but the shock and tragedy of nuclear exposure in the Marshall Islands was a profound driver of the 1963 global ban on atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- In particular, the development of lethal autonomous weapons system raises profound moral questions.
- It is imperative to disarm not only weapons, but the logic of domination, to protect the most in need, to speak the truth in charity, and to rebuild through dialogue and solidarity, a multilateral order that truly delivers for all.
Saudi Arabia · Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- We stress the need to ensure that the entire region is free of weapons of mass destruction and that peaceful nuclear programs are subject to international oversight, verification, and safeguards.
- And we have to ensure that weapons will only be restricted to the state to ensure security and stability in Iraq.
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- In a world with so much wealth and knowledge, vast resources continue to be spent on weapons while children face starvation and are deprived of medicine and education.
- At a time of rising geopolitical tensions and rhetoric of nuclear escalation, We remain firmly convinced that the only real guarantee against these weapons is their total and verifiable elimination.
United Arab Emirates · · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- We also renew our call to expand the embargo to include all of Sudan, which limits the flow of weapons.
- International reports and international investigations are being supported by more and more evidence that proves internationally prohibited chemical weapons were used by the Sudanese regime in this conflict in a blatant violation of the international law and the complete prohibition on the use of chemical weapons this is a war crime against the Sudanese people Mr. President the Sudanese people alone have the right to determine the future of Sudan through a comprehensive and credible political process with an independent civilian leadership that is not connected to the parties to the conflict.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 1 sentence
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Sweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 1 sentence
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence
China · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
United Arab Emirates · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 1 sentence