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Download CSVUnited States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 28 sentences
- Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, First Lady of the United States, distinguished delegates, ambassadors, and fellow leaders, it's my great honor to welcome the world to America as we celebrate 250 years of glorious freedom and independence.
- Our economy is the envy of the world.
- We passed the largest tax cuts in American history, and as a result, more money is being invested in the United States right now than has ever been invested in any nation anywhere in the world.
- And now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 28 sentences
- In today's world, cooperation is undermined by a lack of trust, disregard for rules, and the weakening of institutions.
- Now, I want to begin by analyzing how the world is changing today.
- And as a pragmatic Finn, I will always try to deal with the world as it is because it often helps in building a world that I wish we would have.
- In other words, a world which we can build together.
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 24 sentences
- We do not know exactly what the world in which that young person will live will look like, but we already know that it will be different from our own.
- 33 years ago, since we become a part of the United Nations, the world looked very different.
- The world taking shape before us is a world of sharper competition.
- alliances are changing under the pressure of this same world.
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 20 sentences
- In 1961, Mongolia made history by raising its national flag with the golden Soyombo at the United Nations and becoming the 101st member of the United Nations, the guarantor of global peace and security and the beacon of hope and trust for the world's nations.
- Mongolia welcomes the convening of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly under the theme Restoring Trusts, Managing Transformation, a United Nations that delivers for all, reaffirming its belief in the central role of the United Nations in fostering mutual trust, mutual respect, and cooperation among the nations and peoples of the world.
- As the conflicts and confrontations flash across the world, the walls of distrust rise higher and the chasm of misunderstanding grows deeper.
- It is becoming crucial to shape and develop international relations, not through a form of multipolarity that risks driving the world toward division, but through a multi-pillared principle that respects the pluralism inherent in each nation's history, culture, civilization, core national interests, and chosen path of development.
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 20 sentences
- Amid a shifting balance of power and intensifying geopolitical competition, innocent civilian lives are being lost around the world every day.
- People across the world are suffering from high cost of living.
- Progress towards development goals is not on track, and human rights issues are rising in various places around the world.
- Against this backdrop, has the United Nations, now 80 years on since its foundation, been failing to fulfill its role in promoting peace and stability around the world?
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 20 sentences
- And that promise changed the world.
- Decolonization transformed the map of the world.
- The United Nations system helped eradicate smallpox, vaccinated generations of children, fight hunger and disease, expand access to education and bring clean water and humanitarian assistance to communities across the world.
- The United Nations has not fulfilled every promise of its charter, but without it, our world would have been poorer, more dangerous, and less free.
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 19 sentences
- The UN was established in response to the greatest tragedy in human history, World War II, but it was not founded on a simple and fundamental principle that every wrongdoing must be met with accountability and sometimes with just punishment.
- Thousands of Polish heroes who fought for the freedom of Europe and the entire world were at that time imprisoned, tortured, and sentenced to death.
- Prudence in this case means not only knowing what we want, it also is about pursuit of goal while calling aggression by its name and also condemning those who disrupt the world order without turning a blind eye when they violate the rules.
- It displays the same imperial arrogance that in the past led to unimaginable suffering and the tragedies of two world wars.
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 19 sentences
- You will notice, dear friends, that today, with the exception of a few countries, everyone speaks of and invokes the UN Charter, the spirit of the Charter, and the principles on which the world order that was in force until recently was based on.
- The humanitarian disaster did not occur, and I have still not managed to hear or see where a similar example has occurred anywhere in the world.
- 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.
- I am certain that most of you, dear friends, who are among those best informed about world politics, no longer remember much of this either, and especially not the fact of who in the UNSC voted for that decision, or perhaps in the General Assembly.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 18 sentences
- Mr. President of the General Assembly, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The fault lines in our world are widening.
- Excellencies, we are clearly moving towards a multipolar world, and that movement is irreversible.
- One possibility is a world of fragmentation and transactionalism, a world of rising tensions and deepening mistrust, of fractured markets and weakened institutions, of shrinking cooperation and zero-sum calculations.
- a path towards networked multipolarity, a world built on interdependence and sustained by a dense web of economic, political, social, and technological connections, a world in which multiple centers of influence coexist with a common framework of international law and shared rules.
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 18 sentences
- Mr. President, Heads of State, representatives of the peoples of the world.
- What is lacking is consequences, because an institution that cannot ensure that its words carry weight in the real world loses the most important thing of all, its authority.
- We have decided to cooperate with the world, but to do so standing tall, in the understanding that only a nation that is politically relevant, economically influential, and militarily respected can truly be a master of its own destiny.
- Because alongside that failure, they have built a bureaucratic Leviathan devoted to deciding how the peoples of the world and their citizens should live.
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 18 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.
- You bring to this house the wisdom of 5 billion people, 60% of the world's population, representing some of the world's oldest and most sophisticated civilizations.
- Excellencies, at one time in history, waking up from the horrors of World War II, we were intoxicated with the dreams of a United Nations promising a new dawn for humanity.
- After the unimaginable World War II, started by Christian civilized Europe, we could not have hoped for anything less.
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 18 sentences
- And instead of surrendering to fear, or dealing in retribution, or abandoning their fate to a world governed by force alone, they came together to renew and affirm their faith in humanity, in the essential and equal dignity and worth of every individual, in the sovereignty of every nation, and in the capacity and indeed the responsibility of all of us to give the Universal Declaration of Human Rights life and weight and real meaning by engaging in the dialogue that builds trust and deepens understanding, and backing those words with actions.
- Whether it is climate change or artificial intelligence, there is always the temptation to say that our generation is being confronted by issues that our predecessors could not possibly have imagined while dealing with the world they would not recognise.
- Nor can it be subcontracted to the world's richest companies or dictated by the pace of technology.
- Then, Now and always, shaping a secure, peaceful, and prosperous world is a task for all of us.
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 18 sentences
- The world needs a UN that strengthens and re-establishes trust, a UN that listens without turning away from the concerns of those people that it serves, who decide without losing sight of those for whom it works and which promises without forgetting that it needs to keep its promises.
- Mr. President, On the 26th of September 2025, almost to the day a year ago, right here before this august assembly, I challenged the universal conscience on the distortion of the map of the world which wrongly shrunk the size of Africa on the map of the world and in the global collective imagination.
- Just a few days ago, on the 4th of September 2026 to be precise, in this very hall, Togo's call was heard and a reform of the map of the world was adopted.
- The need to represent the world based on scientific truth and respecting the equal dignity of the people.
Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 17 sentences
- When I try to paint an honest picture of the world we live in, one thing strikes me in particular.
- As a relatively young man who has had the privilege of traveling the world, I have been fortunate to meet people from very different cultures, backgrounds, and traditions.
- And I remain convinced that it is only by working together that we can overcome the many challenges our world is facing today.
- But precisely because the world is becoming more difficult, I believe we must resist the temptation to give up on cooperation.
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 17 sentences
- It's the bridge of the world and connects continents, cultures and markets.
- I'm a president that comes from a great nation, a crystal of different cultural heritages that was the forged society that's open to the world with a strong belief in peace.
- I'm convinced that the United Nations has immense potential in a world with so much volatility and such strong asymmetries.
- 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.
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 17 sentences
- His place in the history of this institution is assured, not merely by the office he has occupied, but by the principles he has steadfastly upheld, the courage and profundity with which he has spoken when silence would have been easier, and his rare ability to hold before the world a clear mirror of the perils that confront our age and the possibilities that still beckon beyond them.
- Mr. President, one year ago, I stood at this very podium and reminded this Assembly that if the United Nations is to remain humanity's surest hope for a just and peaceful world, it must have the courage to confront aggression and the will to engage fully with the defining question of our age.
- I also argued that we must be bold enough to undertake the institutional reforms necessary to strengthen the organization, enhance its credibility, and enable it to meet the challenges of a changing world.
- Yet, if history has taught us anything, it is that even when the world seemed to stand at a precipice, Humanity has never been entirely without the means to draw it back from the brink.
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 16 sentences
- One of those, the country that I represent, is one of the fastest growing countries in the world nowadays.
- Let us come together to help Venezuela, this beautiful country, to reintegrate into the world and achieve a democratic government that respects human rights.
- There are problems all around the world.
- What's happening there in that part of the world is simply too dangerous for us all.
Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 16 sentences
- We do not ask the world to mourn every Yemeni child whose future has been stolen.
- Rather, we ask how many more children must be deprived of their future before the world stands resolutely with the Yemeni people and their struggle to restore their state and their stability.
- The Yemeni government accepted that initiative, while the Houthi militias rejected it and instead escalated their actions in the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb to serve an Iranian agenda that goes beyond the interests of Yemen and its people, turning one of the world's most important waterways into a tool of pressure and bargaining.
- in Iran's confrontation with the world.
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 16 sentences
- The transformation we seek for a better world will only happen when we trust each other and we accept our responsibility for each other.
- It is as though that we through this torturous and shared history of migration, conquest, slavery, and the difficult work of constructing a common national and regional destiny that we give the world an example to follow.
- And yet despite constituting one quarter of the world states.
- And the world we know has already changed.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 15 sentences
- The year of 2025 record the highest number of armed conflicts since the World War II.
- In an interdependent world, leading is to reconcile the interests of the nation with those of humanity.
- This General Assembly recently corrected a historical distortion in the world map.
- It approves a more accurate representation of the world map.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 15 sentences
- We want to integrate into the world.
- We make up 60% of the water that the Amazon receives comes from Bolivia, one of the greatest cultural wealths of the continent and the world, and not just from one culture, many cultures within a single nation.
- And we have strategic natural resources which could be important for the energy and technological transition for the world.
- We have the capacity to provide the world with the resources that it needs to be able to develop a better world.
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 15 sentences
- Standing on this world stage of the United Nations, I am somewhat nostalgic at this moment.
- It was from this very world stage that my father, Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman, the proclaimer of Bangladesh's independence, and my mother, former Prime Minister Late Begum Khaled Zia, addressed the world on behalf of the country and its people.
- Today, I too stand here to speak for the interests of my country and its people and in the hope of a peaceful world community.
- In this age of globalization, Whatever happens in any part of the world has, to varying degrees, a negative impact on every country.
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 15 sentences
- People often say that the world lacks political will.
- The world has never lacked political will.
- What the world lacks is not political will for change, it is political change itself.
- The United Nations was the world's answer to meet us.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 14 sentences
- As the new British Prime Minister, I'm here today to tell you how Britain will deliver leadership in a changing world for the decade that lies ahead, learning from our experience of the last one.
- 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.
- That's what I want to talk to you about this evening, how the world can come through the turbulence of today to reach towards something better in the decade ahead.
- That is the kind of promise and hope that led Britain to host the very first meeting of this General Assembly in London, and led to the world to create this institution, these United Nations, our United Nations.
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 14 sentences
- I do not know a single world leader who would say otherwise.
- 21 centuries in the world have smaller populations 21 countries in the world have smaller population than the number of Russian troops lost in the just eight months.
- But after that, he will once again make it clear to the world that even our Donetsk region is not enough for him.
- The more freedom Putin has to act, the more dangerous the world becomes for everyone else.
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 14 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.
- That prayer inspires me today to follow in the footsteps of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Hail Selassie, Nelson Mandela, and other global icons who have stood at this very podium before me and have spoken boldly and fearlessly about the state of affairs in our world.
- The world may not transform overnight because of the speeches that we deliver here in this August assembly, but history would faithfully record the truths we choose to speak and the silences that we choose to keep when we are granted the privilege of addressing this global town hall.
- Their unpaid labor built the cities, industries, banking institutions, and empires of the modern Western world.
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 14 sentences
- I vowed to prevent Iran's murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs, nuclear weapons aimed at destroying Israel, nuclear weapons that could threaten the entire world.
- of the landmass of the entire Arab world.
- He boldly confronted an enormous danger to America, Israel, and the world.
- I salute the courage of the people of Israel I salute the courage of our brave soldiers, Jews, Christians, Druze, Muslim, the most moral army in the world, the IDF.
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 14 sentences
- Mr. President, your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, Anne Frank was a teenage girl without power or influence, which had a pen and a diary, a diary that would make its way into the world and inspire millions of people.
- She wrote, and I quote, "How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- But when we look at the world today, we see similar challenges as which preceded the founding of the United Nations.
- We see the unending human suffering in Gaza, Sudan, and so many other places in the world.
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 14 sentences
- The impacts of the climate crisis are felt in every corner of our world.
- But that would be the wrong conclusion, because the answer to a world under strain is not less international cooperation, it is more.
- And if our multilateral system is not working effectively, the answer is not to walk away from it, it is to make it stronger, fairer and fit for the world we live in.
- Mr. President, the people of Ireland understand that we live in an interdependent world, that the challenges we face are interconnected, cross borders, and require collective solutions.
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 13 sentences
- Of course, a screen is not the world.
- But that says something about our world today.
- Whether a ceasefire holds after the cameras leave, whether humanitarian suffering remains intolerable or becomes familiar, and whether the world steps up or scrolls and strolls away.
- And if anyone had any doubt that a crisis in our part of the world stays there.
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 13 sentences
- Eight years have gone by since I addressed this assembly for the first time, and since then, several things have changed in the world.
- The first of these pillars is selfishness, the absurd belief that the world is a zero-sum game, where some winning must imply the others losing.
- I'm saying this because bearing witness to these things has changed the way that I understand the world.
- And I must also say that multilateralism is the best tool that humanity has to manage its diversity and its interdependence, especially in a globalized and multipolar world like the world we're living in today.
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 13 sentences
- Wars and conflicts are engulfing the world.
- It is the inevitable result of actions by certain states aimed at deliberately undermining the system of international relations, so that the world would develop not according to the laws of peaceful coexistence, but rather the principle of might makes right and political selfishness.
- How many names remain on the world map that have erased millennia-old memory?
- Western elites do not like the new multipolar world in which their voice is no longer decisive, but instead of adapting to positive changes, they continue to exploit instability.
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 12 sentences
- Yet, we still live in a world of multiplying wars and conflicts, a world that spends more on armaments than on development.
- There can be no sustainable peace in a world of widening economic disparities.
- Mr. President, our shared responsibility is equally evident in the face of the profound transformations our world is undergoing.
- Mr. President, if restoring trust is a challenge facing our world today, for Lebanon, it is not a mere slogan.
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 12 sentences
- More than 80 years ago, in the wake of a war that plunged the world into chaos, Haiti a founding member of the United Nations, joined the nations of the world to make a pledge for peace, for dialogue, and respect for human dignity.
- Today, while deadly crises and conflicts have proliferated, and the climate emergency is intensifying and new divisions are threatening stability in Haiti and throughout the world, this founding endeavor is being put to the test.
- It is imperative that, given the crises that Haiti is grappling with and given those that are causing so much upheaval throughout the world, it is imperative for nations to close ranks around what is essential.
- President Before this august assembly, I am bringing to you the voice of a people that has etched its name in the annals of history by daring to do what was unthinkable, breaking the chains of slavery and bringing to life on a land conquered by sacrifice, blood, and sweat, the first free black republic of the world.
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 11 sentences
- There is a general feeling that the United Nations today needs revitalizing in a number of aspects in order to bring it into line with the priorities of a changing world.
- The world of 1945 was in peril.
- The Second World War, the colossal devastation wrought by it, and the Holocaust left humanity bankrupt, morally and fiscally.
- The core promise of this institution is, has, was, and remains to prevent the unimaginable, a third world war.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 11 sentences
- And from this rostrum, from this podium, we'll continue to make the Palestinian people's fight heard throughout the world.
- Today, Gaza is not only the world's largest graveyard for children.
- It is also the place with the highest rate of child amputations in the world.
- The Security Council must absolutely be reformed in accordance with the principle that the world is bigger than five.
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 11 sentences
- Mr. President, last year, from this very podium, Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, recalled that 56 armed conflicts were raging across the world, the highest number since World War II.
- 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.
- The world order that emerged after World War II is coming apart.
- But today, the world balance has been disrupted, and history which someone has declared has reached its final chapter, is once again moving at a galloping pace.
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 11 sentences
- Compelled by our inevitable position as the world's most unequal society, South Africa made inequality a key focus of our G20 presidency in 2025.
- Across the world, citizens who have seen little improvement in their economic fortunes are turning to ideas diametrically opposed to the values of the UN Charter.
- Dealing with the root causes and challenges of irregular migration is a shared responsibility of all countries of the world.
- Our continent has the world's largest reserves of critical minerals.
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 11 sentences
- or more properly, the lack thereof, is the greatest challenge currently facing our world.
- That is the only way that we will manage to find paths to progress on the all too many, all too intractable conflicts blighting our world today.
- The world must never turn its head away in despair.
- Not just in Ukraine, Gaza and Israel But across the world, be it the conflict in Sudan, the ongoing violence in Myanmar, or the instability across the Sahel, it is evident that diminished trust means diminished chances of finding solutions.
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 11 sentences
- I rise before this Assembly at a time when the world is not short of promises, declarations or commitments.
- I come not only to speak about what the world must do, but to account for what we are doing.
- We are investing in resilient infrastructure, but no small island developing state can adapt indefinitely to a crisis the world continues to intensify.
- For island nations, the ocean is not the space between us and the world.
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 11 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.
- Yet, we are in a more polarized and fractured world.
- The World Food Programme feeds over 100 million people a year.
- How we deal with the Strait of Hormuz will have implications for navigational rights and freedom around the world.
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 11 sentences
- The world has become accustomed to crisis.
- When international law means what it says, and when the people of the world can look to this hall and believe that their voices still matter.
- They are watching the world order fragment.
- Mr. President, trust comes from the way in which we, as the world leaders, can manage transformation forces.
Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 11 sentences
- May peace be upon all of us. 81 years ago, from the ashes of the Second World War, Indonesia and the United Nations were born.
- We emerge from a world devastated by war with a shared conviction that never again should humanity leave its future to war and division.
- We have lived through financial crisis, a global pandemic, climate disasters, geopolitical rivalries and conflicts around the world.
- Southeast Asia is home to one of the world's largest productive age populations.
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 11 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.
- The blatant violations of international law, its selective application, double standards in the management of crises throughout the world, abusive recourse to force and threats, and policies of hegemony and domination, in violation of the Charter of this organization have seriously undermined public confidence throughout the world in international institutions, especially the United Nations.
- We therefore call for the lifting of unilateral coercive measures which undermine state sovereignty and endanger the well-being of populations in approximately 30 countries throughout the world which are affected by such sanctions.
- The government remains attentive to developments across Africa and around the world.
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 10 sentences
- In addition to terrorism which remains active in some countries, particularly in Africa, the situation of global peace and security has been worsening year after year bringing us to the present moment in which we note with deep concern that the world has taken a course that brings it alarmingly close to a global conflict.
- Over the years, Angola has sought to make its contribution to building and consolidation of peace in Africa and the world, but the current situation in no way reflects the aspirations of people for harmony and understanding amongst nations.
- That event of great significance for the history of my country took place in a global context in which Angola became a victim of confrontation between world powers in the struggle for control of sphere of influence within the spirit of Cold War.
- Attempts to dominate entire countries and regions of the globe by force of arms are leading the world towards a catastrophe.
Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 10 sentences
- Persistent armed conflicts around the world, including those in Ukraine and the Middle East, continue to threaten the survival of humanity.
- Today, I stand here to make clear the Republic of Korea's bold resolve to lead the effort to restore the spirit of the United Nations and reconnect the world as a nation that has risen through the solidarity of the international community.
- Younger people around the world in particular are facing growing anxiety about their employment and their future as the pace of change becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with.
- Recently, there have been repeated blockades of sea routes in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, This has underscored the stark reality that the weaponization of key energy and logistics supply routes can send severe shockwaves to the lives of ordinary people around the world.
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 10 sentences
- This is the standard by which the world will judge us all.
- But the speed with which the world finds resources for war compared to prevention and development reveals a grave disorder in our priorities.
- The Security Council still reflects the world of 1945.
- Their legacy continues to be reflected in enduring disparities in wealth, power, and opportunity across our world.
Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 10 sentences
- For my country, that means ensuring no nation, regardless of size or distance, is left behind as the world changes around us.
- For many years, the world has known our country as Nauru.
- Nauru is how our name sounded to those who found it hard to say, and the world kept it.
- What I ask of the world costs nothing, Join us in recognizing and respecting the identity that is already ours.
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 10 sentences
- We need strength because a people which is unable to defend itself will be trampled upon in today's world.
- We live in a world in which the powerful, instead of thinking about humanity, justice, fairness, and democracy, they seem to be the protectors and creators of instability and destruction.
- As long as occupation, aggression and injustice persist in the world, resistance will continue.
- The language makes it unfortunately clear the type of world that we're living in today.
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 10 sentences
- It has protected millions of lives in the whole world.
- Today, however, the promise that we face is one of the toughest tests as we live in a world marked by protected wars, growing geopolitical rivalities, persistent humanitarian crisis, severe weather events, and other highly complex challenges at the world.
- Never has the world been so interconnected and at the same time so fragmented like today.
- It requires the fair application of international law, and concrete results that translate into improvement in the lives of the people in the whole world.
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 10 sentences
- In the opening words of the UN Charter, the nations of the world made perhaps the most important promise of all, to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.
- In 2025, the world witnessed more armed conflicts than in any year since 1946. 65 active conflicts, eight of which between the states.
- So, are we leaving a better world to the generations after us?
- Or have we eroded trust in our collective capacity to evade conflicts and confront the challenges that face the world today?
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 10 sentences
- Four weeks ago, the world saw shocking images of catastrophic floods that swept away Nepal's mountain communities with ferocity many have called mountain tsunami or Himalayan tsunami.
- It was a warning to the world, and I ask you today, have we really heard that warning?
- That cry from the rooftop of the world was not heard enough loudly.
- Scientists around the world heard it.
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 10 sentences
- Mr. President, colleagues, the world is witnessing intertwined changes and turbulence, protracted geopolitical conflicts, widening development gaps, and a growing number of global challenges.
- At a time when countries of the world find their futures so closely linked, More and more of them want to join hands to shoulder the historic mission of addressing difficulties and challenges and advancing the well-being of all humanity.
- The world wants peace, not war.
- The international system centered on the UN and the international order underpinned by international law that emerged after World War II must be upheld.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 10 sentences
- Mr. President, Fernando comes to this 81st session of the General Assembly with a simple message: the world needs the United Nations more than ever, and the United Nations must deliver for the people who depend on it.
- We therefore cannot accept a world in which international law applies differently according to the size, military strength, or economic power of a state.
- The Pacific does not ask the world to prevent El Nino.
- We ask the world to help us to prepare for it, withstand its impacts, and recover with dignity.
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 9 sentences
- Technology is changing how we work, communicate, and understand the world.
- The question before us, therefore, is whether we possess the courage, solidarity, and political will to shape that change and guide our world towards peace, justice, and shared prosperity.
- Mr. President, Dominica has long spoken of becoming the world's first climate resilient nation.
- Dominica has lessons to learn from the world, but we also have lessons to offer the world.
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 9 sentences
- That line comes back to me when I look at our world.
- Do we still take the time to hear what others are telling us, to understand what they fear, what they need, and what the world looks like from where they stand?
- The more interdependent we become, the more we need common rules, not to erase our differences, not to impose a single vision of the world, but to ensure that we can manage our disagreements without allowing the law of the strongest to become the only law that matters.
- We are an open economy, with an economy tied to the world and a security bound up with that of our partners.
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 9 sentences
- Today, the world needs not only more dialogue, but also more trust, more accountability, and greater capacity to act together.
- It is our duty to transform a world in disorder into a world of international law and lasting peace.
- The Security Council ought to reflect the world of today with more equitable regional representation and greater legitimacy and effectiveness.
- This is leading to a food crisis in the world, especially in the Middle East and Africa.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 9 sentences
- This faith, however, calls upon us to be clear-eyed about the world's transformations and to ask about the ability of the UN to evolve alongside it for our peoples.
- In a world in constant flux, the trust of our peoples in multilateralism begins when the law is applied uniformly, regardless of geography, economic power, or alliances.
- Mr. President, we cannot speak of restoring trust toward the UN, let alone of a transformation As long as the UN continues to reflect a world that is ceased to exist, the world of 1945 no longer exists.
- Africa has proven itself over time to be a demographic, diplomatic, and geopolitical power, a vital one, but it still remains inadequately represented where decisions are being made about the world's future.
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 9 sentences
- Mr. President, Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, it's a great honor to address the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the moment of profound uncertainty in our world.
- 11 years later, we must have the courage to admit that the world is not where we expected it to be.
- At the same time, the climate crisis continues to destroy lives livelihoods, and public infrastructure, particularly across the developing world.
- Some progress has been made, and we recognize the dedication of the many United Nations personnel working under difficult conditions around the world.
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 9 sentences
- That's why the government that I lead has tasked itself with taking up every possible decision to enable Colombia to believe in itself again and to ensure that the world can believe in Colombia again.
- To those of you anywhere else in the world who are wondering where to invest, I would like to invite you to look at Colombia.
- Our relationship with the world is also a part of this purpose.
- Is the UN fulfilling those purposes with the effectiveness demanded by today's world?
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 9 sentences
- The persistence of conflicts across the world recalls the purpose for which the United Nations was founded, to spare succeeding generations the devastation of war.
- Nigeria stands by the charter and its promise of a world in which diplomacy prevails over coercion, cooperation over isolation, and international law over arbitrary exercise of power.
- for the world of 2026 cannot remain captive to the distribution of power in 1945.
- This purpose binds our national advancement to our continent's progress and to our responsibility to contribute to a peaceful, equitable, and prosperous world.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 9 sentences
- At a time when our world has confronted war, displacement, poverty, inequality, climate change, and many other challenges, He has consistently called for peace, human dignity, international cooperation, and respect for the principles of United Nations.
- We cannot ask the world to respect our beliefs while refusing to respect the freedom of conscience of another human being.
- USA scientists, Russian scientists, big nations, such the world, big industrially, sets the world, you cannot bring your population to another planet.
- Mr. President, think about the children of the world, a child born today did not create climate change.
Saudi Arabia · Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud · Day 5 · 9 sentences
- Mr. President, the work of this session is taking place at a time when the world and the multilateral system are facing rapidly evolving and unprecedented challenges.
- While crises and conflicts continue in many parts of the world, there is an increasing need to uphold the principles of the UN Charter, respect international law, and strengthen the effectiveness of international institutions in maintaining international peace and security and advancing sustainable development.
- The security of the Gulf region is part and parcel of the security of the region and the world at large.
- 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 · 9 sentences
- When a technology has the power to fundamentally change the world, possibly even determine the fate of humanity, we need to ask who controls it, who sets the rules, who is accountable.
- It can accelerate scientific discovery, improve healthcare and education all over the world, provide opportunities for economic development, overcome inequalities, and help us address challenges that no country can solve alone.
- Just imagine a world where, with the help of AI, we can prevent famine and cure cancer.
- when a challenge is too large for any one nation to address alone, when risks need to be managed to protect people all over the world, and when opportunities need to be exploited in a way that benefits the largest and the smallest, the richest and the poorest member state.
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 9 sentences
- Zambia continues to salute his Excellency Antonio Guterres for reminding us that the answer to a more divided and multipolar world is not less multilateralism, but a stronger, fairer, and more representative United Nations.
- Trust means that the voices of developing countries matter in a world in word and in deed.
- And trust means that when the world agrees on a goal, we must have the commitment to implement it.
- The world is undergoing profound transformation.
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 9 sentences
- Mr. President, seminal changes are taking place across the world at a pace faster than many institutions are able to adapt or respond.
- Despite conflicts in several parts of the world, including in West Asia, and climate calamities, including the cyclone that struck Sri Lanka, my country has restored macroeconomic stability following the economic crisis of 2022.
- Today, Sri Lanka has been reclassified by the World Bank as an upper-middle-income economy, and ratings agencies have recognized this positive trajectory.
- 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.
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 9 sentences
- As the world's youngest nation and the 193rd member of the United Nations, South Sudan understands both the promises and the possibilities of multilateralism.
- President Kiir's vision is to create the condition in which the world can once again see the people of South Sudan for who they truly are, a resilient people who struggled for freedom, voted peacefully for independence, continue to aspire for peace, dignity, democracy, and prosperity.
- South Sudan possesses millions of hectares of arable land, significant water resources, livestock, fishery, natural resources, and one of the youngest population in the world.
- Mr. President, decades of conflict scattered South Sudanese across the world.
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 9 sentences
- I would like to convey to you the warmest greetings of the Beninese people and to carry before you the voice of these people, a voice resolutely committed to peace, dialogue and multilateralism, a voice which yearns to fully partake in our collective reflection about the future of our organization and the future of our world.
- It will also determine the way in which we view the world, the world which today stands at a crossroads.
- We believe not because we harbor nostalgia for the world of 1945, but because in 2026, the world more than ever needs a forum where states can talk to one another, listen to one another, and act in concert.
- The Security Council, for the most part, reflects a balance of forces, the balance of forces in a world which is no longer today's world.
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 8 sentences
- What has changed is the world around it.
- Delegates, people from the investment world are listening to us, and I say to you, choose Chile to invest.
- Chile understands that in a multipolar world, institutional stability is not a luxury, it is a need.
- Delegates, this Assembly cannot remain indifferent to the wars and conflicts that are raging around the world.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 8 sentences
- Since this morning, we've heard A number of speeches from this rostrum about the state of the world, and I fear I will not be very original in my description.
- Every speaker has described the return of imperialism, of arrogance, the return of unrestrained force which knows no rules, a world in which we see power concentrated in the hands of the few, a world in which some believe that they can undermine the international order so as to push their borders outwards, those that believe that people's sovereignty can be toppled over, that they could use that sovereignty, people who believe that they can decide the fate of the planet, whether that be as regards the climate or AI.
- Given the sorry state of the world, given what we're seeing today, and that is a growing number of wars we haven't solved, multiplying myriad crises and contemporary challenges which are weighing on new generations in new ways, I believe we are duty bound not to yield.
- The coalition of the willing on Ukraine, together with the UK and Germany, a coalition which brings together everyone who stands ready to guarantee peace and stability in the very heart of Europe, the very place where two world wars began, something no one can ignore.
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 8 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, we live in a world of injustice, insecurity and intolerance.
- The world did not respond adequately to the aggression against Ukraine and the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, just as it did not during the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Disrespect for international law cannot lead the world towards prosperity and a better future.
- The world must return to the fundamental principles upon which the UN is founded: respect for human dignity, the sovereign equality of states, the peaceful settlement of disputes, respect for international law.
Bhutan · Tshering Tobgay · Day 1 · 8 sentences
- Now, the world has built new cities before.
- Search the world for what works.
- Bhutan is not waiting to see whether the world believes in GMC before committing to it.
- Beyond that border lies the world's most populous country and one of its largest and fastest growing economies.
Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 8 sentences
- We meet today as the world undergoes a profound transformation, not only in the balance of power, but in the very concept of power and the ethics of its use.
- We, in the Arab and Islamic world, and on our African continent, do not approach this question as observers, for we live its consequences every day.
- It is no longer acceptable for the world to regard the Sahel merely as a source of resources, an arena for international competition, or a footnote in global decision making.
- Africa, whose journey we have followed since the founding of the African Union, is not the margin of the world.
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 8 sentences
- That is why a world ruled mainly by power, rather than by rules, would be dangerous for everyone.
- But no country, large or small, is truly safe in a world where international law is ignored and institutions are weakened.
- Sadly, we no longer need to imagine such a world.
- The world has changed, and the United Nations must change with it.
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 8 sentences
- Eight decades later, the world continues to look to this organization as a sanctuary where nations can assemble, where differences can be resolved, through dialogue and where hope can be transformed into tangible action.
- To ordinary people across the globe, this Assembly must not be perceived merely as a forum where the world discusses its problems, but as an organization that actively solves them.
- And yet, the continent remains a global strategic partner in the world stage.
- We meet at a time when multiple wars and armed conflicts continue to claim lives, destroy infrastructure, and displace communities across various regions of the world.
Slovenia · Janez Janša · Day 3 · 8 sentences
- I would like to remind you that since the end of the Second World War alone, There have been more than 80 countries witnessing mass atrocities.
- for this world from our fathers, and we have a great responsibility to make it better for our children.
- I call on you to improve it by joining all our efforts for a world free from genocide and other mass atrocities."
- And we can all say that today, the world is not better, it's worse.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- Your unwavering advocacy on climate action and your repeated visits to our region told the world a simple truth, that the Pacific matters and that our challenges and how the world responds to them remain a litmus test for this organization and for us all.
- Yet, we continue to gather in forums and dialogues around the world and here in the General Assembly, the pinnacle of multilateralism.
- That is the lens through which Solomon Islands engages with the world.
- And it is why the world needs a stronger, more agile United Nations, one equipped to respond to the realities of today.
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- This Assembly should not be a place where the world expresses sympathy without accepting responsibility.
- 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.
- Saint Lucia believes that a truly inclusive United Nations must ensure that its decision-making bodies reflect the world that they serve.
- Mr. President, a 21st century United Nations Security Council could have been more successful in its responsibility for international peace and security had it not been anchored in the world of 1945.
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- Our world is changing at a pace far exceeding the ability of international governance institutions to respond.
- Our world does not need a merely symbolic multilateralism that brings together states in open discussions.
- It is no coincidence that the countries of the global south, which comprise the overwhelming majority of the world's population, are among those most harmed by the decline of the rule of international law, the weakening role of international organizations, and the fragility of global governance and international cooperation frameworks.
- Mr. President, Justice in rules is not complete if the institutions that make decisions do not fairly represent the world they govern.
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 8 sentences
- It is a pleasure to be here representing Cabo Verde in this forum where the world comes together to discuss the challenges we share and the future we want to build.
- a term that defines the cordiality, determination, and kindness of our people, which the world was able to witness a little during this year's football World Cup.
- Perhaps this is an ability that the world must rediscover, the ability to learn from history, to learn from one another, and to understand that there can be no less in development without peace, just as there can be no less in peace where poverty, exclusion, and lack of opportunity persists.
- In the face of wars, inequalities, and crisis confronting our world, we reaffirm our unwavering commitment to the Charter of the United Nations, to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states, to the protection of civilian populations, and to the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 8 sentences
- In a globalized world, the effects of war are felt worldwide.
- If the world is subjected to continuous threats and pressures, then we are really living on the edge of an abyss.
- It extends from the world of finance to constricting market access, disrupting supply chains, and withholding technology.
- Mr. President, given the state of the world, each member of the UN must ask themselves what they can do.
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 8 sentences
- But at their core, Canadians and billions of others around the world want to live peaceful, prosperous and predictable lives.
- This is why Canada and our partners throughout the entire world have started a new initiative entitled Partners for Multilateralism.
- Understanding the world as it is, we will make the right choices for Canadians while being guided by our values.
- As an energy superpower, we are providing energy supplies to many of our partners around the world while supporting the transition to a more environmentally sustainable future.
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 8 sentences
- In many parts of the world, tensions are rising, conflicts are expanding, and crises are deepening.
- and our capacity to preserve and develop the order we established after two world wars, so that future generations would not suffer the scourge of war.
- It has become a necessity imposed by the profound transformations the world has undergone.
- including large numbers of women and children in a scene that should never become a normalized part of the world's daily reality.
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 8 sentences
- The theme of this session, Restoring Trust and Managing Transformation, resonates as a call for clarity and courage in a world where trust is eroding, tensions are rising, and double standards and relationships of force threaten to replace both the spirit and the letter of the UN Charter.
- A multilateralism that can reflect the realities of a multipolar world in which Africa occupies a rightful place.
- The world has changed, and our institutions must evolve with it.
- We are open to the world, but we intend to remain masters of our choices and our destiny.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 8 sentences
- Unfortunately, however, what the world witnessed every day for the last one year was a harsh reality rampant with unprecedented mutual distrust and confrontation, infringement on sovereignty and military conflicts that led to extreme unrest and disorder globally.
- The new year started with a most despicable, world-startling act of state-sponsored terrorism, followed by worldwide outbreaks of other appalling incidents and events, which anyone with common sense and knowledge can hardly imagine.
- Like in other parts of the world, A serious landscape of confrontation between justice and injustice, and between hegemonic forces and independent forces, is being witnessed in Northeast Asia this year.
- Nevertheless, no physical conflict has occurred on and around the Korean Peninsula, a hot spot of the world.
Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- Although our organization brings together all countries of the world and serves as the principal platform for international cooperation, wars and tensions still persist in various regions.
- Armed conflicts and humanitarian crises in different parts of the world including Ukraine, Iran, Sudan, and Palestine, demonstrate the complexity of the current international environment and require all of us to work together to strengthen peace, security, and sustainable development.
- In recent years, Central Asia has clearly demonstrated to the world its ability to resolve complex interstate issues peacefully.
- Today, the world has changed.
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- Amid the major divisions the world has experienced over the past decade, he has emerged as a voice of wisdom, consensus and pragmatism, defending tirelessly and courageously the United Nations system and international law as the two fundamental pillars for the maintenance of international peace and security.
- Mr. Guterres has remained a symbol of multilateral diplomacy and of international cooperation in overcoming the turmoil and obstacles facing our world today.
- May God assist him when His Majesty said, and I quote, "The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, and certainties are steadily receding.
- We are therefore facing a world whose fundamental features are the following.
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- Managing transformation requires institutions capable of adapting to a rapidly changing world.
- Concurrently, Our world is undergoing transformation driven by technology, climate change, demographic shifts, and changing patterns of economic power.
- Mr. President, even as we work to restore trust, our world is transforming.
- For Botswana, custodian of the Okavango Delta, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the Kalahari ecosystem, Climate change directly affects livelihoods, water security, and biodiversity.
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- The world is thus at a difficult turning point.
- Before our very eyes, multilateralism is being sorely tested, weakened by an erosion of trust between nations and trust in the institutions that underpin the world order.
- Cote d'Ivoire remains deeply concerned about the resumption of hostilities in the Near and Middle East, the consequences of which weigh on peace and on food, energy, and economic security throughout the world.
- Indeed, it is becoming increasingly difficult to explain to younger generations that organizations created in the aftermath of the Second World War can no longer faithfully reflect the political, demographic, and economic realities of the 21st century.
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 7 sentences
- I stand here to renew my country's commitment to the United Nations Charter and principles, and to present Iraq's vision for its future, its region, and the world at this critical juncture.
- 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.
- This vision is based on the great potential Iraq possesses in terms of resources and investment opportunities in the fields of energy, industry, agriculture, transport, and technology, not to mention Iraq's exceptional geographical location, which connects its economy to the world.
- Here, from the United Nations, we say to the world, invest with Iraq.
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 7 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, Pakistan's founding father, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, had famously declared, "We stand by the United Nations Charter and will gladly make our full contribution to the peace and prosperity of the world."
- This year, another tragedy weighs heavy on our hearts, your hearts, and the world's heart.
- Does not a child born in Gaza deserve the same life and the same future and same dream as a child anywhere else in the world?
- The world is safer today, and let me say this in all humility, the world is safer today thanks to the valuable sacrifices of our valiant armed forces and brave civilians who took on these terrorists terrorists and mercenaries.
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 7 sentences
- "The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born.
- His era ended with the largest catastrophe of them all, the Second World War.
- Our United Nations was founded by leaders who had lived through two world wars a devastating economic collapse, and the rise of fascism and Nazism.
- The good news is that reducing emissions and ensuring a more responsible management of the world's natural resources is possible.
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 7 sentences
- In an interconnected world, the disruption of maritime traffic in the Middle East can trigger an energy emergency in the Philippines, more than 3,600 nautical miles away.
- The war in Ukraine compounds a global food crisis and economic shocks unseen since the Second World War.
- Look to the Philippines, one of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations.
- Nearly 90% of world trade moves by sea, supported by close to 2 million seafarers, more than 25% of whom are Filipinos.
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 7 sentences
- But the United Nations was built precisely for times of uncertainty, to bring rules and restraints to an unpredictable world and to prevent conflict from descending into catastrophe.
- UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations have helped prevent and contain conflict around the world.
- To me, moral cowards are those who refuse to sit down, those leaders of the world who refuse to sit down and negotiate just and lasting peace.
- Those leaders who deny access to humanitarian aid for people in desperate need, and moral cowards, are those leaders of the world who repeatedly go against and disrespect international law.
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 7 sentences
- Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, San Marino is the world's oldest republic.
- And when the world is divided, institutions that bring states together matter.
- Mr. President, there can be no world in which might make right.
- The Council must better reflect today's world.
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 7 sentences
- 81 years ago, the world gave itself a compass.
- It has pointed us toward a world of equal rights, self-determination of peoples, and territorial integrity of all states.
- Wars and conflicts are at the highest level since World War II.
- Meanwhile, the costs of inaction are felt by the civilians across the world as the disrespect for international humanitarian law is allowed to fester.
Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- Today, I am standing here to speak for the same dream that inspired Lithuania in 1991: the vision of the more just, secure, and peaceful world.
- Ladies and gentlemen, the one conflict that poses the greatest threat to the world order is Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, supported by its proxies.
- In the 12 years since the illegal occupation of Crimea, Russia has escalated from clandestine operations and limited warfare in eastern Ukraine to massive military operations, mass killings, and ultimately the largest drone attacks against civilian infrastructure the world has ever seen.
- The current stage of the war which began with the full-scale invasion in February 2022, has already lasted longer than the First World War.
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, the world is undergoing profound shift in the international order with many risks and uncertainties.
- What should concern us is not only how the international order is changing, but where that change will take the world.
- Distinguished guests, From the losses of the Second World War, humanity created the UN with the aspiration to prevent wars, safeguard peace, promote cooperation and place relations among nations on the foundation of common principles.
- Autonomy also means proactively adapting and cooperating with the world on an equal footing.
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- I am looking forward to working together for a stronger United Nations and a safer world.
- The world order is breaking down.
- The world has changed.
- These principles were not written for an easy world.
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- I would like to take this opportunity to extend my warmest congratulations and express my deepest gratitude to His Excellency, Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, for the unwavering commitment and dedication he has demonstrated throughout his tenure in the service of peace, security, and sustainable development around the world.
- and a United Nation that delivers for all comes at a time when our world faces multiple crises, aggression against states, internal armed conflicts fueled from outside, and expansionist conflicts that are breeding mistrust among states and rendering the international community unable to resolve these crises through peaceful means.
- International human rights law must apply without exception to all states of the world, both in its corrective function as well as in its regulatory function.
- On behalf of the African Union, I reiterate our continent's call for full and equitable representation within the World Trade Organization.
Czechia · Petr Pavel · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- It reflects both the scale of the changes our world is undergoing and the need to navigate them peacefully.
- After the Second World War, a robust multilateral system based on rules and global cooperation was built, spanning security, human rights, and economic development.
- A world dominated by great power competition is a volatile world, less able to address the most pressing challenges of our time.
- It is a world where a single spark can ignite a fire.
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Last year, speaking from this podium, I described the United Nations as an idea of a better world.
- But the world around us is changing, and not for the better.
- Over the past year in particular, it has become increasingly clear that the multilateral world order, with the United Nations and the Charter in its core, is at a profound turning point.
- Yes, the world is on fire.
Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- The hurricanes that have beset us in the past and today's drought have the same root cause, That is a climate which is operating at increasing extremes and that will affect the entire world for decades.
- This project and its location means that we can offer to the world safe, reliable and efficient supply chains.
- Honduras is one of the world's key textile exporters.
- We also manufacture cable harnesses and automobile parts that are sold around the world.
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- That is its overriding purpose and we must not widen the digital divide and digital inequality throughout the world.
- We are on one side, that is the side of citizens of the world that are pursuing their happiness, their development and their freedom.
- I come to this rostrum to talk to you about a Venezuela whose national life has been affected by a crisis that has disrupted political coexistence, a crisis that disrupted national life and upset our relationships with the world.
- However, the world is increasingly less integrated and more polarized.
Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- Wars continue around the world.
- That is openness, good relations with neighbors, the dialogue with the world.
- Ladies and gentlemen, Central Asia has another lesson that it can offer the whole world.
- Dear President, Ladies and Gentlemen, All of us want to live in a world where human dignity is the highest priority.
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- And it speaks to the reality of the world we face today.
- A world shaped by uncertainty, disruption, and rapid change, but also by hope, innovation, and opportunity.
- For Samoa, the theme is a promise the world must keep.
- Excellencies, every decision in this hall shapes the world that every child inherits.
Cambodia · Sokhonn Prak · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- Mr. President, 81 year ago, In the aftermath of the devastation of the Second World War, the nation that founded our organization made a solemn pledge to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.
- While the world has thus far been spared another global war, Armed conflicts continue to inflict immense human suffering across many regions.
- The world needs the United Nations not less, but more.
- Mr. President, the question is no longer whether our world is changing, but whether we can shape that change together and turn transformation into opportunities rather than division and insecurity.
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- A fairer, multipolar world order is emerging before our very eyes.
- We wish to underscore the outcome of the Second World War is the basis for the post-war world order.
- And today, when they turn a blind eye to Ukrainian Nazism, well, they are undermining the basis of the UN-centric world order.
- Didn't they not learn the lessons of World War II?
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- Mr. President, the theme of this session speaks directly to something the world is losing far too quickly: trust.
- Mr. President, rebuilding confidence does not mean returning to a world that no longer exists.
- It means equipping ourselves to face the world that is emerging, from conflicts and climate change to sustainable development and emerging technologies.
- The United Nations we build today will shape the world the next generation inherits.
Cameroon · Lejeune Mbella Mbella · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- In recent decades, we have adopted agreements in different areas, and we continue to create the conditions for a world that is more just, a world where we can all live in peace and security.
- Floods, droughts, and wildfires are recurring and do not spare any region in the world.
- and the resources to reach the Sustainable Development Goals are nevertheless available throughout the world and therefore we must improve the conditions to access them and use these resources.
- 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.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- President, over the past week, we have listened to leaders, ministers, and representatives from every region of the world.
- It is clear we live in a more contested, fragmented, and volatile world.
- The number of active conflicts in the world has doubled in the past 20 years.
- While New Zealand will play its part, our efforts will mean little in the absence of determined action by the world's major emitters.
Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- You are all aware of the dimensions of the crisis in the Gulf and its repercussions on the entire world.
- It has become possible for an international waterway, through which nearly a quarter of the world's energy trade passes, to be closed.
- He passed away this year and was mourned with profound affection and gratitude by his people and all peace-loving nations people across the region and around the world.
- And as though images of the crimes against humanity committed in Gaza had not been circulated by an entire generation of young people across the world, east and west, from the very first day, the state of Qatar has done its utmost as a mediator to stem the bloodshed, to alleviate the suffering of civilians, and to release the prisoners and detainees until a ceasefire was achieved.
Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- This very simple experience seems to me to have something to teach us about the world in which we live.
- The international order established in the aftermath of the Second World War is under severe constraints.
- Economic resilience requires us to diversify relationships, forge new partnerships, and keep trade between different regions of the world as open as possible.
- and permanent missions of almost every country in the world.
Syrian Arab Republic · Ahmad Al-Sharaa · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- I recalled the victory of our people and stressed that this is a victory for the world as a whole.
- It has been a transit for the world.
- We also built diplomatic bridges, and in parallel, we proved to the world that the security of the region has to start in Damascus.
- The strict implementation of our treaties spares our world the horrors of chemical weapons and nuclear weapons.
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- It is a responsibility that grows more urgent each day, especially as UNEP's latest findings make clear that the world is now certain to exceed 1.5.
- The PRF reflects the kind of capital the world should support.
- How we protect our ocean, confront climate change, and power our islands leads directly to how the world engages with us.
- Our children and their children deserve a world that is safe, healthy, and clean.
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- placing collective action, the common good, and the welfare of humanity at the center of our responses to the profound transformations shaping our world.
- Faced with the challenges of a constantly changing world, the refoundation government that I lead places food sovereignty, health and education at the heart of its action.
- Excellencies, Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, can we speak of development when international peace and security are being tested by multiplying crises around the world and persistent tensions?
- Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Far from observing the world as a passive spectator, Madagascar positions itself as an actor fully aware of its strategic place and responsibilities.
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Everywhere around the world, from the Middle East to the Sahel, through the Great Lakes region, in Eastern Europe and Latin America, civilian populations continue to pay the high price of conflict driven by interests that are often hidden.
- Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, allowing the conflict in the Middle East to continue directly weakens the United Nations by calling into question its ability to maintain world peace and by undermining its credibility amongst the peoples we represent.
- Created in 1945 from the ruins of the Second World War, Our organization was founded to guarantee peace, security, and sovereign equality of states in strict respect for international law.
- Mr. President, I would like to also express my deep gratitude for the inscription during the most recent session of the World Heritage Committee in Busan of six medinas of the historic Comorian sultanates, on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Across the world, however, conflicts continue to destroy lives, displace populations, and reverse decades of development.
- Mr. President, for millions of people around the world, poverty, lack of human rights, democratic governance, et cetera, continue to pose greater insecurity.
- This is particularly important for the world's least developed countries.
- This notwithstanding, the reforms would strengthen the capacity of United Nations to serve its member states and the people of the world better, as well as correct the historical injustice that continues to prevail.
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- And it speaks directly to the condition of our world.
- 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.
- Yet, Pacific corridors remain among the most expensive in the world through which to send money.
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Like most countries in this hall, we depend on a world in which borders are respected, agreements are kept, and strength is bound by law.
- Iran and the United States must come back to the negotiation table to end the suffering, to credibly revive the nuclear talks, and to stop holding global supply chains hostage to political ends, especially when there are bilateral deadlocks and conflicts are impacting the whole world.
- And as an incoming member of the Security Council, we are committed to protect the principles of the Charter, to show the world that the Council can act, and to work towards making the decisions we take more inclusive.
- The world did not ban atomic energy.
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- Mr. President, as we face a world in which scientists tell us overshooting the 1.5 degree temperature limit that we agreed in Paris is increasingly likely, we all need to wake up and act.
- Confronted with rising seas on our most vulnerable shorelines, we completed the Yibai seawall and footpath last week, 1.8 kilometers of ocean-side protection, built with support from the World Bank, the Green Climate Fund, and our own resources.
- 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.
- We all will experience pressure to accept a false narrative that UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 somehow serves as a legal pretext under the UN Charter for coercion or war, impairing freedom of navigation in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- How can we restore trust and manage transformation in the world so that the United Nations can effectively bring peace and good fortune to all peoples?
- How to restore this trust when the international institutions that are supposed to protect us have become the tools of a world order in which some peoples count and others merely survive, and in which international law does not apply equally to all?
- It is for this human community that is present around the world, a source of hope and of dignity.
- And I say this before the world so that the world can understand.
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- Over the past year, we have seen a record number of armed conflicts around the world and a rapidly diminishing role of the United Nations in ending them.
- In Ukraine, there are few prospects for a peace process, even though the aggression has now lasted longer than World War I, without even a nominal role for the United Nations.
- This foundational agreement is increasingly challenged with alarming trends to dismiss and ignore international law altogether, which can only result in a world where might makes right.
- Amidst accelerating human suffering the world over, it has never been more important for us to implement this commitment.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- So, Mr. President, we come to this August assembly not as mere petitioners, but as partners to play our part in making our world a better place.
- Try to imagine a world without it.
- When its consequences still shape who is rich and who is poor in the world today.
- The world listened.
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- The question before us is not whether the world has heard our message, but why has it still not acted?
- We live in a world more connected than ever, but greater connection has not brought greater unity.
- Mr. President, too much of our international architecture still reflects the world of 1945, rather than today's realities.
- By any credible index, Tonga is amongst the world's most vulnerable countries.
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- For much of that time, the world described us as a country caught between East and West, a place where others decided.
- And our companies sell on some of the most demanding markets in Europe and the world.
- We live in a world with plenty of reasons for pessimism.
- Our diaspora is spread across the world, but stays close to one another and deeply cares about what happens at home.
Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- Mr. President, in a world marked by rapid technological change, environmental threats, renewed conflicts, and deepening fractures in the international order, This year's theme, restoring trust, managing transformation, a United Nations that delivers for all, is not merely aspirational.
- For some years now, the world has spiraled into violence that has progressively spread and intensified, continually opening up new theaters of war.
- Tragically, Christians in many parts of the world continue to suffer discrimination, violence, and outright persecution.
- This conflict has also affected vital infrastructure, maritime transport routes and energy resources that are of strategic importance to the entire global economy, which has an impact on the livelihood of persons all around the world.
Nicaragua · Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke Whitaker · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- President, Nicaragua is addressing the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly with the strength of the peace that we think is possible in our country and throughout the world, where the human family can opt for the urgent need to live in harmony.
- We bring to this forum of all peoples and states of the world the legitimate aspiration of families from the entire world, and in particular in Nicaragua, to live peacefully and safely, to strengthen the work that will allow all of us to establish better societies, to defeat extreme poverty, to live in harmony and in complementarity, which is so critical to allow all societies to progress, and so that also we can care for and increase our resources and natural riches, which will be of benefit to everyone.
- The conflicts assailing the world are, as we know, the enemy of the well-being to which we are all entitled.
- And we also need to achieve well-being for all to bring about a better world, which is so urgent a task.
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- Mr. President, the world remains far from achieving universal access to safe water and sanitation.
- The Dushanbe Water Framework can help us write that chapter, a chapter focused on implementation, on financing, on technology and capacity, on stronger partnerships, and on protecting the sources of our water water, including the world's rapidly changing glaciers.
- Excellencies, we must also prepare for a world that is changing before our eyes.
- Technological transformation is only one dimension of a rapidly changing world.
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- After decades of institutional indifference, in 2019, the El Salvadorian people opted for Nayib Bukele, our president, who's now known across the world, a young leader who dared to challenge something that an entire generation thought they were condemned to and strove to profoundly transform the reality of our country, regardless of the consequences or the criticisms he'd received from the international community.
- El Salvador went from being the most violent country in the world, with a murder rate of 103 people per 100,000 inhabitants.
- Care is free and drugs are free too, and we are the first in the world to achieve this feat.
- So enough with the conformism, enough of personal and national interests prevailing over the needs of the world and global crises.
United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate, Mr. President, our region and the world are undergoing a period of rapid transformation marked by intensifying challenges and divisions.
- to transform challenges into opportunities, to turn ambitions into achievements, and to open new horizons for peace, development, and prosperity for our people, the peoples of the region, and the world.
- My country has refused to let the crises surrounding us undermine the world-leading achievements we have built over decades.
- The UAE model has demonstrated its resilience and its capacity to deliver tangible results by investing in key pillars of national strength, foremost among them strategic independence, industrial capabilities, advanced defense systems, and world-class infrastructure and logistics.
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- Their impacts reverberate throughout the world.
- As I said at the opening of this debate, in the eyes of the world, when the Security Council works, the United Nations works.
- World leaders have pointed out that these are matters of survival.
- Excellencies, the world leaders also spoke clearly about reforming the United Nations.
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Mister President, standing before this assembly, I am reminded that while some efforts have been made from this rostrum over the past year, these have not yet matched the scale of the challenges confronting our world.
- We will have to increase and strengthen efforts and commitment to the process of transformation and strengthening of the UN in order to restore trust that our organization will really be capable of delivering peace, inclusion, and development in the world.
- We are carbon negative and remain the world's most forested country with over 90% forest coverage.
- We, Suriname, will do what we can and we call on the more influential members of the United Nations to help maintain peace, to make sure that there is peace in the world, because Only a United Nations capable of safeguarding international peace and security will deliver for all.
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- The world is being transformed by technology, climate change, demographic pressures, illegal migration, and geopolitical rivalry.
- Reforms we are pursuing domestically are increasing our overall resilience and giving us increased capacity to engage in a world which is rapidly changing.
- Last year alone, the world's official development assistance was reduced by almost 25%.
- Croatia persistently ranks among the world's 15 highest performing countries in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.
Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- As the world changes, our institutions must be able to respond to new realities and threats while guided by the painful lessons of history and the vision of the founding fathers of this organization.
- And in a rapidly changing world, small size states must seek synergies while continuing to pursue strategic autonomy.
- Preserving trust also requires institutions capable of responding to the world as it is today.
- Our geographical position at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, place us close to some of the most complex dynamics of our world.
Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- The Galapagos Islands, where Darwin found evidence of the evolution of life, are a World Heritage site for the whole of humanity.
- It's precisely for this reason that we want an organization that's able to respond to the challenges of the world today, not of 1945.
- supporting the organization that the United Nations also needs to involve a willingness to transform the United Nations and that's why we support the UN80 initiative and pose an essential question, what United Nations of the world needs today?
- The citizens of the world will not judge this organization by its declarations.
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 4 sentences
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- On the contrary, it is precisely because the world is beset by a whole host of unprecedented crises that we need a UN that is stronger, more representative and more effective.
- Senegal continues to believe in the vision of a world based on peace, justice, the dignity of each and every human being, and human brotherhood.
- The world does not need unilateral posturing.
- It will welcome young people from across the world.
Georgia · Irakli Kobakhidzhe · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- It's a privilege to stand before this Assembly on behalf of Georgia, a nation shaped by centuries of history, resilience, and engagement with a changing world.
- Developments in different parts of the world are challenging existing arrangements and raising questions about the future of the international order.
- The choice we make today will shape the world we leave to future generations.
- Let's ensure that we leave them a world that is more peaceful, secure, and united than the one we know today.
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- Greece has established a durable, a deep strategic partnership with Israel, while at the same time maintaining strong ties with the Arab world.
- At a time when the effectiveness of governments all over the world is being challenged by populists and extremists, and public trust is being eroded in the echo chambers of social media, Greece serves as an example that sound, reform-oriented policies can deliver real results for people and improve their lives.
- In the 1940s and the 1950s, the American government heavily regulated another technology so powerful that its creators believed it could bring about either a golden age in human flourishing or the end of the world.
- And as much as the cooperation of China and the rest of the world is necessary to address this huge challenge, the fate of artificial intelligence and the impact it will have on humanity as a whole will not be decided in Brussels, in Tokyo, or Brasilia.
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Rearmament is accelerating throughout the world.
- Above and beyond these crises, Monaco will continue to contribute to international cooperation, focused on the least developed countries, through its support to the International Committee for the Red Cross, the High Commissioner for Refugees, and the World Food Program.
- President, When he received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the great French writer Albert Camus defined the task of his generation thus: not to reform the world, but perhaps even greater, to prevent the world from destroying itself.
- Today, that is our task, preventing the world from destroying itself, preventing law being destroyed by force, preventing trust being destroyed by mistrust, and preventing the planet from being destroyed under the weight of our negligence.
Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Different fabrications entered different emotional worlds, all serving the same strategic lie.
- Don't forget, Albania is the only country in Europe that ended World War II with more Jews than it started it.
- Let us ensure that no democracy wakes up after an election to discover that its people exercise their freedom of choice inside the world secretly designed for them by someone they could not see and they are not even aware that is the force behind their choice.
- We choose the truth, not because truth is always easy or comfortable, but because without a shared commitment to reality, there cannot be a shared public life and without that commitment of all of us to the reality of world we live in we are engaged in the most horrendous betrayal that parents of this world in the history of humanity have done to their own children and without a shared world there cannot be United Nations.
Guinea-Bissau · Ilídio Vieira Té · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- It is in this spirit that I bring to this Assembly a message of peace, freedom, and fraternity to all the nations of the world, in the firm hope that every people may live in peace, fully exercise its rights, and freely chart its own path towards development and prosperity.
- We live in an interdependent world marked by growing uncertainty and by challenges that transcend borders, climate change, transnational organized crime, terrorism, structural inequalities, the burden of debt, and insufficient financing for development continue to undermine our efforts towards sustainable development.
- Devastating conflicts also persist in several regions of the world, as do security challenges, particularly in the Sahel.
- Our vision of the world rests fundamentally on four keywords: prevention, dialogue, cooperation, peace.
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- This tradition is reflected in Azerbaijan's international initiatives, including the World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue.
- This commitment has also been demonstrated through successful hosting and steering of major global gatherings, including COP29, the 13th session of the World Urban Forum, results-oriented chairmanships of the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of Turkic States, and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, and Azerbaijan's increasingly active engagement across other international platforms.
- Ladies and gentlemen, as we inch closer to 2030, it is becoming even more apparent that the world remains off track in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.
- In this context, Azerbaijan's successful hosting of the 13th session of the World Urban Forum marked an important contribution to the global urban agenda.
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, we express our country's grave concern as the world continues its slide toward uncertainty and division.
- World military expenditures reached a record 2.9 trillion dollars in 2025.
- Our experience of re-announcing the world's fourth largest nuclear arsenal did not weaken our state.
- They remain responsible until we secure a world free of nuclear weapons.
Mauritania · Mohamed Salem Merzoug · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Proceeding from such principles, my country under the leadership of his excellency, the president of the state, Muhammad Wildraswani, continue to build a modern state that is coexistent in synergy with its neighbors and open to the entire world.
- This contribution is based in our belief in the need to have durable and just cooperation, because no one country, no matter how powerful it was, can stand alone to confront the challenges of such an interconnected world.
- Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen, the world today faces an important moment that goes beyond political challenges.
- We have to leave to the future generations a better world than the one we've inherited.
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- It summarizes the expectations of member states and the peoples of the world in all of their diversity vis-a-vis the UN.
- Mr. President, the clear ambition that my country has for its development can only be achieved with peace, stability and security in our region and also in the world.
- Through its constant vision for years now, Chad has remained one of the main African contributors of troops to peacekeeping operations throughout the world.
- We believe in a more representative organization of the world as it is now, more effective in its work, and truly delivering for all.
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- to deliver my country's statement to the world.
- Micronesia stands in solidarity with all nations that have endured the recent waves of natural disasters around the world.
- The world must accelerate the transition to resilient, affordable, and community-centered renewable energy system.
- Our lagoons, for example, in the state of Chuuk, where oil leaks from World War II remnants led to the emergency declaration last year, continue to threaten our livelihood.
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- courage, resilience, commitment and mobilization, as they are showing each and every day, supporting the efforts of the heads of state of the AES confederation remain the center of gravity of our journey towards sovereignty and stability and development to all of the peoples of Africa in the world who share our struggle and who recognize themselves and the ideals of peace dignity and liberty that the confederation represents I reiterate my gratitude Mr. president confederal dynamic that has been engaged in and taken up by our states, far from being an act in isolation, brings forward the rejection of fatality and chronic wardship that we face, as well as the reject of selective criticism when we see human tragedies.
- And it's an admission that our organization is struggling to adapt to the changes The huge changes that we're seeing of a world in constant evolution and an admission that our organization, unfortunately, is no longer there for everyone, but belongs more and more to actors chosen according to their power and their vested interests.
- Mr. President, in terms of international peace and security, our world remains up against multiplication of armed conflicts, the emergence of new crises, and a return to the principle of might is right, unilateral approaches, Unlawful sanctions, selective interventions and double standards weaken the international order and put the multilateral system to test.
- It's only if these conditions are met that we will be able to restore confidence and trust between our nations to make our organization credible again and to offer present and future generations a safer, more prosperous world that is more respectful of the aspirations of all peoples.
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- He understood what we small island developing states have been telling the world for decades.
- He never relented in demanding a fairer world and he constantly placed the concerns of small island developing states before the international community.
- In a fractured world, the United Nations must renew both its operational relevance and its moral clarity.
- Excellencies, the world is changing.
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- We must renew our global systems, strengthen our multilateral partnerships, and summon the collective will necessary to build a world worthy of the next generation.
- In an increasingly interconnected world, cooperation is not merely desirable, it is indispensable.
- Our responsibility is to give them the education, skills, technology, and opportunities necessary to shape the world they will inherit.
- Together, through renewed trust and genuine partnership, We can build a United Nation that delivers, a United Nation that protects, a United Nations that listens, a United Nation that acts, and ultimately, a world in which no country, no community, and no person is left behind.
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 4 sentences
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- In a world increasingly fractured by geopolitical rivalry, The answer cannot be a retreat into isolationism.
- Seychelles approaches the world guided by an enduring fundamental principle.
- Let us restore trust through deliberate action, by upholding the rule of international law unconditionally, by reforming our global governance institutions to reflect today's world, by delivering equitable climate and development finance, and by protecting our shared oceans and climate.
Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- The world has witnessed the tremendous cost in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
- Today we say to the world, saving the solution begins with preserving the land on which the Palestinian state is to be established and protecting the people who live on it.
- We likewise call for granting the State of Palestine full membership in the United Nations, similar to the rest of the nations and peoples of the world.
Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 3 sentences
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Our initiative aims to be an open platform for partners from all parts of the world who are ready to defend common principles and work towards practical solutions.
- We aspire to build space for progress and growth together with partners from all regions around the world.
- For this reason, we continue to build the most dense network of trade agreements in the world, covering 84 countries from around the planet.
Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- This theme invites us to consider international cooperation in a world that is subject to profound challenges.
- Excellencies, when the 2030 Agenda was adopted, the world embraced its deeply human vision, eradicating poverty, protecting the planet, and making sure that all people can live with dignity, leaving no one behind.
- At the same time, Equatorial Guinea has its doors wide open for investors and partners from around the world.
Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- We must strive to make the Security Council more representative, which requires permanent seats for Africa, Brazil and India, thereby reflecting the changing world.
- That is why Portugal looks to the future with renewed commitment to the mission of the United Nations, with confidence in our collective capacity and with hope that it is together that we can build and leave behind a better world.
- And we are going to do it and leave to future generation a better world than the one we are living in.
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- And furthermore, to inflict harm on the economies of the region and the world and to disrupt global trade and oil markets, Iran is obstructing maritime navigation and closing the Strait of Hormuz to use it as a bargaining chip in the war, in violation of international law and the relevant Security Council resolutions.
- We have recognized the need for the world to stand together, united in support of justice and in adherence to the UN Charter and international law.
- The state of Kuwait shall remain as the world has known it to be, a voice of wisdom and moderation, a proponent of dialogue, cooperation, and openness to partnerships that serve mutual interests, a champion of justice, and a partner in consolidating international peace and security.
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Development gains are being reversed in many parts of the world.
- This year, following the submission of our second VNR, my government convened its first Development Partners Forum on Christmas Island, which we highly value as the world's largest coral atoll and the first island to see each new day's sunrise.
- Participants included Australia, the People's Republic of China, the European Union, New Zealand, Japan, the United States of America, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the UN agencies.
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 3 sentences
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Created in the aftermath of the Second World War, The immediate focus was obviously on peace and security, but the UN system has evolved significantly over the decades to expand its scope and sphere of influence within the confines of its charter.
- Is the UN fit for the purpose for the 21st century, not the world of 1945, but the world of today and beyond?
- The will expressed by the international community following the war to create an instrument for cooperation in order to establish a new world order is still there.
Sweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, when Sweden joined the UN in 1946, the world was emerging from the devastation of war.
- Given the state of the world, changes are necessary to ensure the UN's central role in international affairs and its ability to address today's challenges.
- It is no news to anybody But we sense it in different degrees that the world of today is more than ever before one world.
India · · Day 4 · 3 sentences
Pakistan · · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Muslims are demonized, Christians persecuted, Dalits dehumanized, and Sikhs disenfranchised in the largest hypocrisy of the world.
- Today, it can no longer import sympathy and stands exposed in front of the world.
- commitment reflected in our consistent role as a peacemaker, mediator, and bridge builder around the world.
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 3 sentences
Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, our world continues to confront severe multifaceted tensions.
- in Vientiane under the theme, accelerating progress towards a world free from the threat of cluster munitions.
- Let us unite our collective strength, renew our trust in multilateralism, and work together to build a peaceful, resilient, and prosperous world where no nation and people is left behind.
Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Our world is beset by numerous, profound and interconnected crises.
- Accordingly, in the face of human tragedies across the world and particularly in Africa, greater collective engagement is essential.
- The UN must therefore demonstrate its ability to adapt to the international context and effectively address the challenges facing the world.
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 3 sentences
Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Furthermore, the international financing architecture, specifically the IMF and the World Bank, must be radically overhauled.
- By producing essential medicine within Africa, the entire world gained through stronger health security and stable supply chains, especially through faster outbreak response.
- We can choose to retreat into isolationism and protectionism, or we can choose to summon the political courage required to build a fairer, more resilient, and inclusive world.
Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Notwithstanding, we continue to be inundated with images of the suffering of innocent civilians, such as in Sudan and eastern DRC, large-scale internal displacement, cross-border migration, and humanitarian crises across the world.
- Mr. President, the world is experiencing increasing devastating floods, heat waves, frequent hurricanes, and prolonged period of drought.
Guinea · Mamadi Doumbouya · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- I am convinced that your experience in multilateralism will help strengthen the role of the United Nations at a particularly decisive moment for the world and for this organization itself.
- The effects of global warming, are being felt across many of the world's regions, from coastal areas and river deltas to the most vulnerable territories, which are increasingly exposed to extreme weather events.
Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Qatar · · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- 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.
- The world must act now and decisively, collectively, and with urgency to protect the future for generations to come.
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Second, the United Nations must embark on a comprehensive and profound reform process that responds to the transformations that have taken place in the world.
- Tunisia believes that the continuation of this situation will further complicate matters and could lead to catastrophic consequences for all countries of the region and the world.
Eritrea · Osman Saleh Mohammed · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- In the event, the imperative for installing a new world order predicated on justice and rationality, and that get-hisens, the zero-sum system, remains humanity's fundamental individual and collective right.
- They cannot otherwise deflect the attention and focus of the peoples of the world from their core mission and struggle.
China · · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Upholding the post-war international order, Defending the outcomes of the victory of World War II and maintaining regional peace and stability are the shared responsibility of the international community.
- China will work with all the peace-loving nations in the world to resolutely contain Japan's neo-militarism under the cloak of becoming a normal country and prevent it from getting rampant and from destabilizing and disrupting the region and the world.
Japan · · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Regarding Japan's national security policy, the defense capabilities Japan maintains are kept to the minimum necessary to ensure Japan's security in the face of the most severe and complex security environment since the end of World War II.
- Reflecting upon the past eight decades, Japan has consistently walked the path of a peace-loving nation and has consistently contributed to peace and prosperity in the international community since the end of World War II.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Japan, a world criminal state, is accelerating its transformation into a world state against the background of growing geopolitical tensions and block confrontation.
- Japan in public talks about the world without nuclear weapons under the signboard of the world's only atomic-bombed country, and actually behind the scenes works hard to go nuclear.
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Uganda · Jessica Rose Epel Alupo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Rwanda · Justin Nsengiyumva · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Bahrain · Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Oman · Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Philippines · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
China · · Day 6 · 1 sentence