Development
Debt and financial architecture at UNGA 81
Raised by 79 of 223 speakers. Read verbatim UN transcript quotes and select a time to hear the speech.
Speeches that raised debt and financial architecture
Saint Lucia · Day 4Philip J. PierreFor small island developing states, these crises are not abstract.
They are lived realities.
Climate change threatens our homes, livelihoods, and very existence.
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Day 4Godwin Fridayand set a country back.
Small states cannot continue borrowing merely to replace what climate-related disasters repeatedly destroy.
We cannot continue to walk up the down escalator pretending it is development.
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Egypt · Day 4Moustafa Kamal MadboulyIn this context, Egypt continues to advocate genuine and comprehensive reform of the Security Council.
In accordance with the Ezulwini Consensus and the Sirte Declaration, particularly to mend the historical injustice suffered by Africa.
The imbalance in political representation is matched by another imbalance in the global economy.
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Maldives · Day 4Hussain Mohamed LatheefTechnological dependence, external shocks, and unsustainable debt limits it.
This is why reform of the international financial architecture matters.
We must implement the Cevier commitment and deliver on its promises on finance, debt, and reform.
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Lebanon · Day 4Nawaf SalamDevelopment, too, is a matter of peace.
There can be no sustainable peace in a world of widening economic disparities.
where some states spend more on servicing their debt than on the health of their citizens and the education of their children.
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Haiti · Day 4Alix Didier Fils-AiméAccess to capital, to markets, and to technologies need to be more fair.
Our international financial architecture must evolve to better respond to the needs and the realities of the most vulnerable countries.
Artificial intelligence offers up colossal opportunities, but without regulations or ethical guardrails, it risks deepening existing rifts.
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Samoa · Day 4Mulipola Anarosa Ale Moliooit struggles to adequately recognize vulnerability and fails to fully account for the realities faced by states.
A fairer financial system is not only in the interest of developing countries, it is in the interest of global stability and shared prosperity.
The implementation of the multidimensional vulnerability index, MVI, in financing decision making is essential if we are to genuinely address the financial challenges facing developing countries.
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Mauritius · Day 4Dhananjay RamfulIs the UN fit for the purpose for the 21st century, not the world of 1945, but the world of today and beyond?
We are entering a new era of international relations defined by unprecedented technological developments, often absent from the table where the rules of tomorrow are being adopted.
developing countries risk being left further behind.
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Lesotho · Day 4Samuel Ntsokoane MatekaneWe further call for reform of the international financial architecture to make it more equitable, fit for purpose, and responsive to the needs of developing countries, as agreed at the Fourth Summit for Financing for Development, FFD4, held in Seville, Spain, last year.
We also urge full implementation of the outcomes of the Third Summit of Landlocked Developing Countries, held in Awasa, Turkmenistan in August 2025.
The implementation of these outcomes without further delay, together with the Pact of the Future, will undoubtedly help restore eroded trust.
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Tuvalu · Day 4Feleti TeoTuvalu has ratified the BBNJ Agreement.
and look forward to contributing to the first Conference of the Parties of the Agreement next year.
Tuvalu's objective towards the implementation of the BBNJ is simple, in that the ocean areas beyond national jurisdictions belong to our shared future and must be governed responsibly, based on science, equity the precautionary approach and effective international cooperation.
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Solomon Islands · Day 4Matthew Cooper WaleMr. President, as a small island developing state, our vulnerability remains a fundamental reality.
A single natural disaster can erase years of investment and progress and push the nation backwards.
The Multidimensional Vulnerability Index captures the special circumstances of SIDS in a way that income measures alone does not.
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Saint Kitts and Nevis · Day 4Geoffrey HanleyIt cannot capture the cost of rebuilding the same bridge, clinic, or seawall again and again, while nations twice our size and half of our vulnerability borrow cheaper than we do.
We therefore call on the World Bank, the IMF, development banks, climate funds, and every partner here to incorporate NVI into the architecture of financing.
not as charity, but as arithmetic and justice made real.
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