Africa’s development and representation at UNGA 81

Statements that raised Africa’s development and representation

1. 
   🇰🇪 Kenya · Day 2William Samoei Ruto

   • The equality proclaimed in this Assembly ends at the doors of the Security Council. That imbalance might have reflected the world of 1945. It does not reflect the world that we know today. Africa has 54 member states, more than a quarter of this Assembly, yet no permanent voice in the body entrusted with the primary responsibility of international peace and security. 7:55:52Copy

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   🇬🇭 Ghana · Day 3John Dramani Mahama

   • I also wish to commend outgoing UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, for his dedicated service to our world body over the last 10 years. Mr. President, Ghana's national anthem contains a profound petition. It asks God to make us bold, to defend forever the cause of freedom and of right. And those words give my compatriots and I courage to uphold the Pan-African and anti-colonial heritage that was bequeathed to us by our forebears. 1:01:16Copy

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   🇧🇮 Burundi · Day 2Évariste Ndayishimiye

   • Let us begin by restoring peace within our own community. Let us consolidate peace in our respective countries. Let us rebuild trust among our peoples and restore the image of humanity in our midst. This year, when Burundi holds the rotating chairmanship of the African Union, we are keenly aware of the responsibility that falls to us. 1:01:20Copy

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   🇹🇬 Togo · Day 4Robert Komlan Edo Dussey

   • We are convinced that no lasting solution can be imposed from the outside without actively listening to local and sovereign realities and what's going on on the ground. Africa is not asking for others to act in its place. It is asking for its efforts to be recognized, assisted and supported. 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. 12:37:23Copy

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   🇨🇬 Congo · Day 6Constant Serge Bounda

   • And we further express our profound gratitude to His Excellency, Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, for his advocacy on behalf of Africa, his constant commitment to the Congo Basin, and his support to the peace mediation and dialogue efforts undertaken by our country. 2:53:30Copy
   • We believe that Africa, a continent at the center of many UN challenges and global geopolitical issues, must remain at the heart of the future Secretary-General's agenda. 2:54:07Copy
   • The next Secretary-General must embrace a truly universal vision of the United Nations, one that leaves no continent at the margins and which fully takes into account Africa's place, responsibilities, and legitimate interests. 2:54:21Copy

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   🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo · Day 2Judith Suminwa Tuluka

   • The DRC supports the UN global dialogue on AI governance, as well as the creation of a global capacity building fund. digital divide must not become an intelligence divide. This need for inclusion ought first and foremost to be reflected in global governance. 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. 11:47:51Copy

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   🇱🇾 Libya · Day 2Mohamed Younis Menfi

   • 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. It is one of the centers of the world to come. Libya does not lie on the edge of Africa. 3:31:52Copy

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   🇦🇴 Angola · Day 1João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço

   • I'd like to take this opportunity to once again to condemn terrorism in all its forms wherever it occurs. 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. Among these contributions to peace are several initiatives undertaken in Africa, of which I highlight the 21st Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State of the African Union on the Strengthening of Conflict Prevention and Resolution Mechanisms in Africa, recently held in Luanda, which opened serious and sound prospect for resolving the problems affecting peace and stability on the African continent. 6:15:17Copy

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   🇸🇿 Eswatini · Day 2King Mswati III

   • Restoring trust cannot be achieved through declarations alone. It requires that promises already made be honored and that our institutions demonstrate the capacity and will have to respond to changing global realities. Since the Ezulwini Consensus was adopted in 2005, sadly, Africa still has no permanent seat on the UN Security Council. And yet, the continent remains a global strategic partner in the world stage. 9:24:05Copy

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    🇳🇬 Nigeria · Day 3Kashim Shettima

    • Africa cannot continue to fill the council's agenda while remaining absent from its permanent membership. Nigeria demands, in accordance with the Delwin consensus and the safety declaration, at least two permanencies for Africa. With all the rights and responsibilities of permanent membership, including the veto, for as long as it exists, and five non-permanent seats in total. The authority to speak for humanity carries an obligation to represent it. 7:16:02Copy

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11. 
    🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · Day 1Julius Maada Bio

    • The credibility weakens when institutions entrusted with the law preserve an unequal distribution of power. The Security Council still reflects the world of 1945. Africa, home to more than 1.6 billion people and the subject of most of the Council's work, still has no permanent seat. That's not fair. 7:45:10Copy

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    🇿🇦 South Africa · Day 3Ronald Ozzy Lamola

    • The end of apartheid also marked the end of a system that exported violence and instability across southern Africa. Indeed, the fall of apartheid is a glorious story that attests to what multilateralism can deliver. Since democratic South Africa took its place in this assembly, we have pursued a foreign policy anchored in Ubuntu and international law, dialogue and multilateralism, and in the understanding that our fate is tied to the fortunes of our region and the continent as a whole. Millions more South Africans have access to education, electricity, water and sanitation, housing and social protection than they did at the dawn of our democracy or under apartheid. 11:58:46Copy

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    🇬🇳 Guinea · Day 2Mamadi Doumbouya

    • Three aluminum refineries which are under construction as we seek to transform our bauxite on our own soil. We have Africa's largest gold refinery, which is currently operational, and this has already been completed. And we have a sustainable and responsible socioeconomic development program for my country for the next 15 years that I referred to the Simandou 2040 project. The Simandou 2040 program embodies transformation initiative for our economy. 9:13:47Copy

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    🇲🇿 Mozambique · Day 2Daniel Francisco Chapo

    • Our location in the Indian Ocean, Our logistic corridors and our agricultural potential, energy and mineral make Mozambique a strategic platform for the investment and regional integration. We therefore seek partnerships that build national capacity, promote local content, respect the environment, and generate employment, especially for the young people and women. Mozambique will continue to diversify its partnership in a sovereign way, transparent and mutual beneficial manner, working with all the parties in the light of the national priorities. This is also the Africa's ambition. 8:55:45Copy

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    🇧🇧 Barbados · Day 3Mia Amor Mottley

    • the Security Council still has 15 members, five of them permanent and armed with that veto. Africa, with 54 states, has no permanent seat. And you've heard speaker after speaker after speaker come to this platform to say that this must change. Small island developing states equally confront threats that now reach squarely into the council's mandate. 8:17:20Copy

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    🇫🇷 France · Day 1Emmanuel Macron

    • This is why at the Security Council, France supports reforms aimed at bolstering its effectiveness. We must open up to new members, new regions, first and foremost Africa, but In terms of the substance, the Security Council must be able to take action in the face of mass violations of international law. Who can accept a procedural deadlock when we see barbaric acts being committed? The Franco-Mexican initiative on regulating the veto in the case of mass atrocities being committed is needed more than ever, and I'm delighted that it now has the support of 128 member states. 5:45:33Copy

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    🇯🇵 Japan · Day 1Takaichi Sanae

    • We wish to extend this to Africa as well to turn it into a main artery for growth and prosperity. To that end, Exactly 10 years ago, former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo advocated a free and open Indo-Pacific, FOIP, at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, TICAD, held in Kenya. However, due to the recent intensification of geopolitical tensions, free trade has been hampered, and stable energy supplies and supply chains in general have been disrupted. Amid this situation in May this year, I announced the updated Free and Open Indo-Pacific, FOIP. 10:38:36Copy

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    🇱🇷 Liberia · Day 3Joseph Nyuma Boakai

    • Democracy and human rights and responsible innovation. Mr. President, the ultimate measure of governance is inclusion. In Africa, 60% of our population is under 25. the single greatest engine of innovation on earth. 3:10:32Copy

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    🇲🇺 Mauritius · Day 4Dhananjay Ramful

    • We need to enhance and accelerate the revitalization of the General Assembly and that of ECOSOC so that they are not merely forums for debate but engines of action. This must be done as we bring about the reform of the Security Council. The historical injustice regarding the composition of the Council was acknowledged in Action 39 of the Pact for the Future, but the process for reform is still stalled. Mauritius fully supports the common African position the Ezulwini Consensus and the Sertic Declaration, calling for no fewer than two permanent and five non-permanent African seats on the Council. 11:08:29Copy

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    🇳🇦 Namibia · Day 2Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah

    • Therefore, we shall not be passive observers to the efforts aimed at dismantling or weakening the international system that had served us over eight years, albeit with some shortcomings. In this regard, we shall continue to call for peace over conflict, dialogue over confrontation, and peaceful coexistence over tension. In restoring trust, we need to manage transformation of the United Nations Security Council based on equitable representation in its decision-making process to reflect contemporary geopolitical realities. The common African position as articulated in the Ezulwini Consensus and the SALT Declaration has also been reaffirmed in the Pact for the Future, which recognizes Africa as a special case. 7:12:46Copy

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    🇵🇱 Poland · Day 2Karol Nawrocki

    • We view this experience not as a reason for complacency, but as a commitment to share with others. As we engage in the work of the G20, we view this forum as key to rebuilding trust in international relations and developing responses to the most important challenges of the modern world, from economic security through supply chain resilience to the stability of the trading system. In this context, an important step toward a more representative governance structure was the decision to expand this format so that every region could be represented. In 2023, the African Union was admitted to the G20. 6:54:57Copy

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    🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Day 4Godwin Friday

    • Therefore, we join with other nations in calling for reform, specifically of the Security Council, to include a permanent member from the continent of Africa, with all the attendant rights and privileges. Failure to do so will only confirm that the current composition is not about governance. And fairness. But about power. 8:08:04Copy

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    🇿🇲 Zambia · Day 5Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe

    • Mr. President, Africa's youthful population is one of our greatest assets and represents an enormous opportunity for global prosperity for global prosperity. According to demographic forecasts, one in every four youths on the globe will be African by 2050. We have a wealth of young Africans with potential to become entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, farmers, innovators, and artists, and indeed, future leaders. Our responsibility is to equip them with quality education, relevant skills, access to technology, entrepreneurship opportunities, and decent employment so that they can become active drivers of economic transformation and sustainable development. 8:44:46Copy

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    🇧🇯 Benin · Day 6Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba

    • Africa does not have a permanent seat. 6:47:50Copy
    • Benin would like to reaffirm its unswerving support for the common African position set forth in the Izolwini Consensus and the Siet Declaration. 6:48:03Copy
    • interstate solidarity, regional cooperation, the action of the African Union, the support of the United Nations. 6:49:56Copy

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    🇳🇪 Niger · Day 4Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman

    • How to restore trust when 81 years after San Francisco, Africa, with its more than around 1.5 billion inhabitants and its 54 states, still does not have a single permanent seat on the Security Council. Through me, Niger reaffirms its commitment to the Azawad consensus and calls for this historic anomaly to no longer be the subject of sterile debates repeated day after day to at long last become subject to a full and concrete decision. Excellencies, Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, our Sahel is 5:59:13Copy

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    🇩🇿 Algeria · Day 6Ahmed Attaf

    • In this regard, Algeria reaffirms its steadfast support for the common African position. 1:27:37Copy
    • We stress that correcting the historical injustice suffered by Africa requires permanent and fair African representation in the Security Council with full powers. 1:27:46Copy
    • And if the Palestinian cause constitutes a daily test of the credibility of the international legal system, Africa is yet another test. 1:32:09Copy

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    🇧🇼 Botswana · Day 2Duma Gideon Boko

    • Botswana has sought to live by this principle as a host to the Southern African Development Community, SADC, secretariat through our contributions to regional mediation and election observation, and through our consistent commitment to the peaceful settlement of disputes. Mr. President, even as we work to restore trust, our world is transforming. Climate change is no longer tomorrow's warning. It is today's drought in Africa, floods in Asia, rising seas in the Pacific, and wildfires in Europe and the Americas. 4:44:34Copy

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    🇨🇻 Cabo Verde · Day 5Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho

    • They will only be truly and fulfill their role when they are respected and upheld by all. In our region, terrorism, violent extremism, and national crimes also remind us that peace requires prevention, strong institutions, and cooperation, and requires opportunities. Africa is the continent with the youngest population in the world. Therefore, investing in our young people, in education, in knowledge, and in the possibility of building a dignified life means also investing in peace. 1:19:21Copy

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    🇨🇲 Cameroon · Day 5Lejeune Mbella Mbella

    • We should also give new impetus to international trade, industrialization, and transforming raw materials locally as well as strengthening regional integration. And it is this energy that guided the work of the 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, WTO, which Cameroon had the privilege of hosting from the 26th to the 29th of March 2026. Cameroon also has the intention of contributing to the full expansion of the African Continental Free Trade Area, the acronym being AfCFTA. We are one of the first countries in the continent who have ratified its statute. 9:25:02Copy

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    🇨🇫 Central African Republic · Day 2Faustin Archange Touadera

    • Mr. President, the transformation that is the theme of this session is what we want, but we refuse to allow it to take place without Africa or while exploiting Africa. This transformation first requires a bold Security Council reform. We cannot claim to represent the world of 2026 with the proportions of 1945. A continent of more than 1.3 billion inhabitants, whose crises make up a large portion of the Council's work, ought to have at least one permanent seat in it. 6:02:19Copy

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    🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire · Day 3Tiémoko Meyliet Koné

    • Ladies and gentlemen, Africa is bearing the brunt of the decline of multilateralism and the difficulties the United Nations has faced in recent years. Due to a lack of support from certain partners and from the United Nations, several African countries are struggling to find lasting solutions to conflicts and to bear the cost of various counterterrorism and peacekeeping operations. Meanwhile, violent extremism, transnational organized crime, and illicit trafficking of all kinds continue to destabilize a number of regions on the continent, and in particular, the Sahel. Our experience and the realities on the ground demonstrate that no state can, on its own, overcome such threats in a definitive and lasting manner. 7:02:46Copy

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    🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea · Day 3Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue

    • Therefore, 21st century cooperation should provide opportunities for the mobilization of financing to transform raw materials and to develop one's own knowledge and technologies. Excellencies, this vision is especially relevant for Africa, which needs investments that can allow it to develop local value chains, build infrastructure, advance industrialization, strengthen human capital, incorporate new technologies, and generate employment, especially for the continent's large youth population. A more productive and industrialized Africa will be a stronger partner to the benefit of all of those wanting to halt its immigration. 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. 4:21:18Copy

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    🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Day 2Taye Atske-Selassie Amde

    • In this connection, I sincerely invite all world leaders to come to Ethiopia and leave their footprints at this important global climate summit. With regard to the digital revolution and artificial intelligence, Africa is compelled to ask a very defining question. Will the age of the AI become another instrument of global inequality, or will it be a catalyst for our collective growth? We must ensure that the Global South leads this technological revolution rather than remain a helpless spectator. 6:33:07Copy

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    🇫🇮 Finland · Day 1Alexander Stubb

    • This is a logical consequence in times of uncertainty and transformation. You seek security where you can get it. We're seeing an intensification of regional integration, akin to what we saw in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Regional organizations like the African Union, Gulf Cooperation Council, Mercosur, ASEAN, or the EU, build trust. 5:05:16Copy

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    🇮🇳 India · Day 5Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

    • Whether it is clean energy and clean water projects, sustainable agriculture, or the dissemination of best practices and technology, our capabilities and experiences have been reflected abroad. African nations and small island developing states have been our preferred partners in this journey. Initiatives like the International Solar Alliance, the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, or the Global Biofuels Alliance are all making steady progress. Mr. President, the turbulence of our times also demands more from each of us. 4:51:20Copy

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    🇮🇹 Italy · Day 2Antonio Tajani

    • The same principle guides our relationship with Africa. a strategic priority for Italy and a major partner for our century. The Maltai Plan now involves 18 countries and is built on a simple idea. not to decide for Africa, but to decide with Africa. 12:16:58Copy

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    🇱🇧 Lebanon · Day 4Nawaf Salam

    • The reality is that the world has changed profoundly since 1945. The membership of the United Nations has grown nearly fourfold. Colonialism has ended. Africa has risen. 1:40:57Copy

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    🇲🇦 Morocco · Day 1Nasser Bourita

    • Mr. President, despite its significant human, natural and civilizational assets, the African continent faces a gap between the scale of the commitments announced for its benefit by the international community and the value of what has actually been achieved on the ground. Contrary to the stereotypical image held by some, Africa is not a continent of conflicts and a hotbed of problems, rather it is a land of opportunity and potential, capable of devising solutions and putting forward initiatives. That is the idea summed up by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God assist him, in his eloquent words: "Africa must trust Africa", the enlightened royal vision for Africa, which has materialized through a significant number of projects. stems from a firm conviction that the continent has attained a level of maturity that qualifies it to participate effectively in all decisions relating to its affairs. 12:20:54Copy

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    🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis · Day 4Geoffrey Hanley

    • Mr. President, few bridges carry greater historical meaning or future potential than between Africa and the Caribbean. The Atlantic, once a passage of forced displacement and separation, is becoming a pathway of return and reconnection. Africa Caribbean cooperation must move beyond sentiment. Our shared history must help build a shared future to capital, trade, technology, knowledge, culture, and coordinated diplomacy. 9:16:39Copy

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    🇸🇹 Sao Tome and Principe · Day 5Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz

    • Excellencies, the experience of Sao Tome and Principe as a small democracy also shapes the way we view representation at the international level. Africa today occupies a demographic, economic, and political place that is not yet adequately reflected in the institutions where the most far-reaching decisions are taken. It is in this area that reform of the Security Council becomes imperative. This is not a concession to Africa, it is a matter of legitimacy, justice, and effectiveness. 8:26:15Copy

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    🇷🇸 Serbia · Day 2Aleksandar Vučić

    • Rather, it would provide a concrete and pragmatic way forward, enable the citizens and economies of the region to experience the tangible benefits of European integration and help overcome the deadlock in which the enlargement process has remained for far too long. However, a stable and integrated Europe, of which Serbia is a part, and our European path do not mean renouncing the traditional friendship, thanks to which Belgrade is one of the few European capitals from which one can fly directly to the United States of America, the People's Republic of China, and the Russian Federation. I owe special gratitude for the support during COVID pandemics, as well as for a paramount investment in Serbia to the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, hoping that his talks with President Trump will be productive and that they will contribute to the stabilization of the developments in the world. At the same time, we nurture ties with traditional friends and partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, with whom we recently marked in Belgrade the 65th anniversary of the first conference of non-aligned countries held in our capital in 1961. 8:33:28Copy

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    🇹🇳 Tunisia · Day 5Mohamed Ali Nafti

    • Mr. President, the abundant human resources, natural wealth, and the promising potential of Africa make Africa an essential partner in advancing development at the international level. Yet, the Africa we want continues to face intertwined security and economic challenges that require a comprehensive approach. In this regard, Tunisia reaffirms its commitment to the principle of African solutions to African problems, thereby strengthening the ownership of African countries and peoples over the resolution of their crises and reinforcing the role of African mechanisms and institutions in maintaining peace and security. Tunisia renews its support for the reform of the African Union so that it may better fulfill its responsibilities and respond effectively to current challenges. 6:04:37Copy

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    🇹🇷 Türkiye · Day 1Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    • The 13th Leaders Summit to be held in Ankara on the 30th of October will, we hope, open new doors and new horizons for the organization. The fourth Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, which we will organize in Libya in December, symbolizes the institutional partnership we have been building for more than two decades now. In South Asia, It is important that all disputes, including the Kashmir issue, be addressed through dialogue within the framework of the United Nations Charter and of relevant resolutions. Provided that constructive action is taken, all issues can possibly be resolved. 3:15:33Copy

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    🇹🇿 United Republic of Tanzania · Day 1Deogratius Ndejembi

    • In that, Tanzania has made significant strides in reducing maternal and child mortality by expanding facility delivery from 51% in 2015 to 81% in 2022. Our experience on this demonstrates that when we invest in feasible projects and remain people-centered, development can move from promises to measurable results. It is in this spirit that Her Excellency President Samia Suluhu Hassan accepted the responsibility of championing maternal and child health for the African Union. Under her leadership, Tanzania reduced maternal deaths by 80% in just seven years. 9:46:31Copy

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    🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Day 3Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa

    • Mr. President, restoring confidence in the collective security requires the Security Council to move beyond the outdated geopolitical realities of 1945. The long-standing position of Africa is outlined in the Azurine consensus and the city declaration should be granted. Africa is united, sovereign and independent. Africa is rising. 25:21Copy

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    🇺🇳 Secretary-General of the United Nations · Day 1António Guterres

    • The Security Council was designed in the aftermath of World War II, but the world has fundamentally changed since then, a change that is far from reflected in the Security Council. The most stunning example is Africa. When the UN was founded, most of Africa was still under colonial rule. Today, Africa still has no permanent representation on the Council. 35:48Copy

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    🇸🇸 South Sudan · Day 6Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng

    • South Sudan, therefore, continues to recognize the indispensable contribution of IGAD and our African Union brothers and sisters. 5:27:38Copy
    • Africa, with 54 member states, remains without a permanent representation on the Council. 5:42:55Copy
    • South Sudan, therefore, reaffirms its support for the common African position. 5:43:02Copy

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    🇧🇸 Bahamas (the) · Day 4Philip Edward Davis

    • in this assembly. Then in 1985, commerce leaders met in my own capital and agreed a Nassau Accord against apartheid. We were told pressure would never work. Less than five years later, Nelson Mandela walked free. 6:30:00Copy

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    🇧🇾 Belarus · Day 5Maxim Ryzhenkov

    • They are about returning people's own history to them. How many names remain on the world map that have erased millennia-old memory? Here's a simple example. The great waterfall that the peoples of Zimbabwe have for centuries called Mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders, the colonisers "discovered" it 150 years ago and named it after their queen, who had never even set foot in Africa. 5:21:05Copy

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    🇧🇷 Brazil · Day 1Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva

    • It's not about recolonizing the global South. Change means moving towards a more participatory future and more achievements. It is about creating and sharing effective public solutions to development challenge through a democratic, strong, efficient and capable state. It's about betting on the spirit of solidarity and cooperation with Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean region. 1:36:50Copy

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    🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · Day 6Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré

    • 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. 55:02Copy
    • We adhere to the vision of a rehabilitated Africa, with our dignity recovered, choosing our own path. 1:05:07Copy
    • It's also appropriate to welcome the recent adoption just three weeks ago on the 4th of September of resolution A/80/L.104 seeking to give Africa its right size on the map. 1:06:28Copy

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    🇨🇦 Canada · Day 5Anita Anand

    • We are strengthening ties between Canada and Europe. Alongside the European Union, we are building an alliance for the future. Thanks to our strategy for Africa, we are boosting our trade links with our African partners. we are making concrete progress. 7:41:33Copy

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    🇨🇳 China · Day 5Han Zheng

    • China has created two miracles at home, namely fast economic growth and long-term social stability. and over many years, it has contributed around 30% to global growth. China has joined hands with more than three-fourths of the countries in the world in pursuing high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. It has mobilized over 23 billion US dollars and carried out more than 2,000 projects under the Global Development Initiative, and it has granted zero-tariff status to all the African countries and LDCs having diplomatic relations with it to empower the Global South in pursuing modernization China has been a progressive force in an era of change China has always spoken up for the Global South stood up for the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries and continued to work toward a more just and equitable global governance system. 30:20Copy

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    🇩🇯 Djibouti · Day 5Abdoulkader Houssein Omar

    • In this regard, the CBI commitment represents an important step forward whose commitments must now be translated into tangible results, including through improved access to concessional financing, enhanced debt sustainability, and increased mobilization of public and private capital for development. We must also strengthen South-South and triangular cooperation in order to share technologies, knowledge, and solutions tailored to the realities of our countries. Africa must not be viewed solely as a region vulnerable to climate change. It should be recognized as an actor that is capable of innovating, proposing solutions, and contributing to the transformation of the global economy. 6:54:34Copy

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    🇬🇦 Gabon · Day 5Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny

    • The UN must therefore demonstrate its ability to adapt to the international context and effectively address the challenges facing the world. This commitment to institutional transformation must take into account the urgent need to reform the Security Council. Indeed, Africa must take its rightful place within the very restricted circle of permanent members. For Gabon, there can be no legitimate global governance without equitable African participation in decisions concerning international peace and security. 7:33:57Copy

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    🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau · Day 4Ilídio Vieira Té

    • We also consider it urgent to reform the architecture of global governance so that it reflects the geopolitical realities of the 21st century. It is essential that Africa have more adequate and effective representation in the international institutions that play a central role in shaping responses to the challenges of peace, security, and development. The reform of the United Nations Security Council must reflect the legitimate aspirations of the African continent and ensure fairer, permanent, and effective representation in keeping with the principle of a more inclusive, equitable, and representative international order. Guinea-Bissau welcomes the efforts of the United Nations to achieve a lasting political solution to the question of Western Sahara. 7:33:57Copy

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    🇬🇾 Guyana · Day 3Mohamed Irfaan Ali

    • United Nations must not be a monument to the past. It must become an instrument for the future. We need a Security Council that reflects the geopolitical realities of the 21st century, not the power structures of 1945. A council that embraces the emerging multipolarity of our world, including permanent representation from Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. 2:05:28Copy

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    🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Day 1Sadyr Zhaparov

    • However, despite numerous efforts and years of discussion, the institutional structure of our organization continues to face various challenges. Therefore, I believe that expanding the membership of the Security Council is one of the reforms that the international community expects. I consider it fair to grant two permanent seats to the African continent with population of more than 1 billion people and one permanent seat to Latin America. Today, the world has changed. 3:32:54Copy

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    🇱🇸 Lesotho · Day 4Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane

    • Mr. President, We welcome progress under the UN80 initiative and appreciate efforts to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and coherence within the UN system. As deliberations continue, reforms must remain guided by intergovernmental agreed mandates and member states' priorities. Any measures undertaken should preserve the UN's capacity to deliver across all pillars of its work and maintain meaningful impact on the ground. Mr. President, as we contemplate the future of community of nations, we must renew our collective commitment to a United Nations that is more inclusive, effective, and responsive to modern times global challenges, and one in which developing countries, particularly African nations, have a stronger voice in global decision making. 3:01:52Copy

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    🇱🇺 Luxembourg · Day 1Guillaume of Luxembourg

    • Madam President, restoring trust also means making our institutions worthy of that trust. The Security Council must become more representative, more effective, and more accountable to the entire membership of the United Nations, Africa in particular. and it was said many times today, should have a stronger voice. And when the Security Council is paralyzed, the General Assembly must be able to play its rightful role. 5:32:22Copy

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    🇲🇬 Madagascar · Day 3Michaël Randrianirina

    • We must also correct the historical imbalance affecting Africa's representation on the Security Council. Indeed, Africa cannot remain on the margins of decisions. We have 1.4 billion inhabitants, decisions concerning international peace and security. Africa should be granted permanent representation on the Security Council in accordance with the Ezulwini Consensus and the Cirt Declaration, which express a common position grounded injustice, equity and representativeness within the African Union. 52:54Copy

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    🇲🇼 Malawi · Day 6George Chapatula Chaponda

    • We call for an urgent, comprehensive reform of the United Nations Security Council to correct the historical injustice done to Africa. 2:19:54Copy
    • Africa deserves Permanent representation with full veto privileges are articulated in the Eswatini consensus. 2:20:03Copy
    • Justice Chizumira is a distinguished jurist with extensive judicial legal experience at the national, regional, and international levels, including her service as a judge of the African Court on Human and People's Rights. 2:21:24Copy

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    🇲🇻 Maldives · Day 4Hussain Mohamed Latheef

    • The Security Council cannot reflect the world of 1945 while deciding for the world of today. It must be expanded in both permanent and non-permanent categories Seats must have a rotating seat. Africa must receive the representation long denied to it. And the veto must be abolished. 55:58Copy

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    🇲🇱 Mali · Day 6Abdoulaye Diop

    • This is an essential condition to restoring the trust of member states and people in the organization. It requires strengthening representation within multilateral institutions, including multilateral financial institutions, and ensuring that Africa's voice is heard more clearly in decision-making bodies which affect the future, our world, the future of humankind. Mali reaffirms its readiness to contribute to common efforts of the international community for a world which is more peaceful, more secure, more just, more prosperous, and finally, more united. I thank you. 40:05Copy

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    🇳🇱 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Day 3Rob Jetten

    • And the middle powers must take the lead in fostering such international cooperation. And everyone must be able to participate, including those countries who are currently too often left on the sidelines. It is time that countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America had a fully fledged place, not only on the equal earth map, but in the real world too. To start with, here in the UN, improved African representation in the Security Council at the very least, because If we want to preserve the UN for the future, we must change the balance of power in line with the changing times and modernize our institutions. 9:55:05Copy

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    🇳🇴 Norway · Day 4Espen Barth Eide

    • A true reform of this organization must also address the composition and functioning of the Security Council. That is the common call of the majority of this room. The absence of Africa among the permanent seats of the Council is but one striking example. While striving to improve legitimacy, we must ensure that we do not reduce efficiency. 11:53:07Copy

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    🇺🇳 President of the General Assembly (opening) · Day 1Dr. Khalilur Rahman

    • As the Secretary-General has said, nowhere is this more important right now than in Africa. After eight decades, the largest region by number of Member States and a key focus of UN peacekeeping, remains underrepresented on the Security Council. Africa needs to be at the table, not on the menu. Africa cannot be asked to wait indefinitely for the rightful place on the Council. 1:05:53Copy

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    🇷🇺 Russian Federation · Day 5Sergey Lavrov

    • Our principled approach is the following: UN Security Council reform cannot involve any additional seats being allocated to Western countries, especially to Germany and Japan, who are now on the path to militarism and revanchism. We are in favor of broadening the representation of Asia, Africa and Latin America. We support Brazil's and India's candidatures for a permanent seat. And at the same time, I wish to emphasize this, we must satisfy the interests of the African continent in keeping with the Asylwini Consensus and the SET Declaration. 3:22:53Copy

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    🇷🇼 Rwanda · Day 2Justin Nsengiyumva

    • Rwanda fully supports the diplomatic efforts underway to reach such a solution. We commend the Washington Accords between Rwanda and the DRC and the Doha process between the DRC and AFCM23 as steps in the right direction. We are grateful for the relentless efforts deployed by President Donald Trump, His Highness the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and the African Union mediator, President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo, in advancing these processes. And we remain committed to a region where all countries can coexist peacefully, where they can trade and develop together. 11:04:44Copy

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    🇸🇳 Senegal · Day 3Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye

    • But given the fact the Council is lacking legitimacy, and that is indeed the hallmark of the Council's current structure, we cannot simply issue observations. We are in at a juncture where there is an urgent need for action. It's a matter of justice, credibility and balance across the international system. And this is indeed the rationale which underpins the Ezulwini Consensus, which outlines the African position in connection with the so necessary reform of the UN Security Council. 6:28:32Copy

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    🇸🇨 Seychelles · Day 1Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie

    • Seychelles, therefore, reaffirms Africa's unified position. Our continent must hold no fewer than two permanent seats on the Security Council, with full prerogatives, including the veto, for as long as it exists. Mr. President, this past June, Seychelles proudly celebrated 50 years of independence. Half a century of self-determination has taught us a fundamental lesson. 9:01:31Copy

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    🇸🇴 Somalia · Day 3Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

    • Africa remains unrepresented in the permanent category and not represented enough in the permanent category as well. This historical injustice against the 54 sovereign states cannot be postponed indefinitely. Somalia supports the common African position and meaningful African representation in both categories of the Council. Given that many of the discussions directly concern African states, they have the right to full representation on equal par with all other permanent Security Council members. 2:23:52Copy

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    🇸🇷 Suriname · Day 1Jennifer Geerlings-Simons

    • It should not reduce support where it is most needed. Equally important is the overdue reform of the Security Council. Hence, Suriname reiterates its call for making it more representative, more accountable, and more capable of acting. Africa, The Republic of Suriname supports your demand for just permanent representation. 7:25:33Copy

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    🇸🇪 Sweden · Day 4Maria Malmer Stenergard

    • Sweden would like to see permanent and non-permanent seats added and a fairer representation of all continents on the Council. Africa, home to 1.3 billion people and the largest regional bloc in the United Nations, has no permanent seat. This is neither logical nor fair. Further, the veto should never be used to prevent the UN from acting against serious violations of international law or in humanitarian disasters. 12:25:37Copy

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    🇹🇭 Thailand · Day 3Anutin Charnvirakul

    • Thailand continues to pursue free trade agreements with partners across region. and to expand trade and opportunities for both sides. Additionally, our Thailand Africa initiative seeks to deepen political, economic and development cooperation to build partnerships of equals across our regions. Mr. President, Excellencies, distinguished delegates. 9:12:49Copy

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    🇺🇬 Uganda · Day 2Jessica Rose Epel Alupo

    • In this regard, we demand Africa's rightful representation in both the permanent and non-permanent categories to correct historical imbalances in line with the common African position articulated in the Eswatini Consensus and the Sauti Declaration. Regarding the ongoing UN Aid Initiative, Uganda commends efforts to streamline the UN system to make it cost-effective, efficient and well-coordinated. However, these reform processes must not dilute agreed UN mandates, commitments and programmes, nor should they impede the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Mr. President, when we adopted the 2030 Agenda for SDGs, the 17 SDGs, in 2015, we committed to leaving no one behind. 10:48:49Copy

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    🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda · Day 6Walton Alfonso Webson

    • Antigua and Barbuda stands firm with CARICOM and Africa in demanding reparatory justice for people of African descent. 4:51:19Copy
    • Africa's continued exclusion from the permanent membership is an injustice that must be corrected. 5:00:59Copy
    • Africa must have permanent representation at the Security Council. 5:01:09Copy

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    🇪🇷 Eritrea · Day 6Osman Saleh Mohammed

    • For the urgency of reversing the war and related acts of subversion unleashed in order to format chaos in our broader neighborhood, that is, the Nile Basin, the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Eden, and the Gulf States. 48:50Copy
    • Against this overall backdrop, it must be recognized that the prime victims of the zero-sum global order, whose hallmarks are plunder, domination, and deceit, as the African peoples who continue to seize under subsistence economy. 49:31Copy

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    🇺🇳 President of the General Assembly (closing) · Day 6Dr. Khalilur Rahman

    • In this regard, Africa's exclusion from permanent membership of Security Council is a continuing injustice. 7:08:49Copy
    • The common African position is clear. 7:08:57Copy

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80. 
    🇸🇩 Sudan · Day 6Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim

    • Africa should be represented by two permanent seats, And the working methods of the Security Council should be improved in line with current developments and realities. 3:16:10Copy

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    🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Day 6Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar

    • And it is also the bedrock of our international partnerships, particularly with the nations of the global south and the African continent. 3:38:58Copy

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