Decolonisation and territorial disputes at UNGA 81

Statements that raised Decolonisation and territorial disputes

1. 
   🇧🇸 Bahamas (the) · Day 4Philip Edward Davis

   • The strong will do what they can, the weak will suffer what they must. 81 years ago in San Francisco, humanity wrote a different law, the sovereign equality of nations, not equality of size or wealth, equality of standing. The United Nations was the world's answer to meet us. But in 1945, nearly one in three people on earth still lived under colonial rule. 6:29:06Copy

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   🇦🇷 Argentina · Day 2Javier Gerardo Milei

   • Instead, they allowed chaos, violence, and international terrorism to flourish. The alleged defenders of human rights have sheltered bloodthirsty dictatorships and regimes that stone women in the streets. They have systematically voted against Israel while remaining silent in the face of Islamic terrorism and the genocide of Christians in Africa. And as if that were not enough, an organization established to defend the territorial sovereignty of its members decided to look the other way with regard to the situation of the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia Islands and South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas. 2:23:00Copy

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   🇨🇾 Cyprus · Day 2Nikos Christodoulides

   • 52 years have passed since the illegal Turkish invasion of Cyprus. an act of aggression violating the core principles of the UN Charter, an ongoing flagrant violation of international law with more than a third of the territory of Cyprus remaining under Turkish occupation. For 52 years, the tens of thousands of displaced and their descendants are prevented from returning to their homes. For 52 years, Varosha remains sealed off with Turkey still in defiance of its clear and very specific obligations set out in the relevant UN resolutions. 4:16:23Copy

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   🇧🇿 Belize · Day 5John Briceño

   • Our voice joins every call for the protection of civilians, for accountability, and for the diplomacy that alone can secure durable peace. Mr. President, for 55 years after independence, Belize continues to pursue the peaceful settlement of its territorial disputes with Guatemala and with Honduras. Belize has chosen and will always choose law over force. Belize informs this assembly of a serious breach of international law committed on the night of 23rd September 2026 when a Guatemalan military aircraft entered Belize's sovereign airspace and intentionally disabled its transponder. 1:10:20Copy

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   🇲🇦 Morocco · Day 1Nasser Bourita

   • including the adoption of certain laws that affect the legal status of the Palestinian territory and pave the way for the seizure for the purpose of settlement expansion, as well as the systematic violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinian citizens. All these measures point in one direction: the displacement of the population, and the undermining of the material basis for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. With regard to the city of Jerusalem, Morocco expresses its deep concern about unilateral Israeli measures and the repeated violations of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which constitutes serious transgressions that contribute to fueling the discourse of extremism and hatred at the expense of the voice of wisdom and moderation. As the chair of Al-Quds Committee, His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God assist him, continues his work to preserve the historical, cultural, and spiritual identity of the Holy City and its legal status, as well as to improve the living conditions of the Maghdisi inhabitants, combining political and diplomatic action with programs implemented on the ground by Bayt Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif Agency, the executive arm of Al-Quds Committee. 12:19:26Copy

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   🇧🇾 Belarus · Day 5Maxim Ryzhenkov

   • Nevertheless, in the West, they are already beginning to ask questions about their many, they're now being held to account for centuries of colonial plunder for the destruction of cultures, traditions and identifies of enslaved peoples and for the slave trade, which claimed millions of lives. And in line with this, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in March of this year declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. Belarus supported this resolution without hesitation. This is not just a diplomatic gesture. 5:19:21Copy

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7. 
   🇮🇱 Israel · Day 3Benjamin Netanyahu

   • That is equal to about one third of 1%. of the landmass of the entire Arab world. Yet they accuse Israel, tiny Israel, of colonialism, some colonialism. And who's accusing us? 5:21:51Copy

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   🇷🇸 Serbia · Day 2Aleksandar Vučić

   • And when they raise their voices, thinking that they are being highly moral and that their positions are the only right ones, we simply smile and ask ourselves: And how did you treat Kosovo and Metohija and the territorial integrity of Serbia, which is guaranteed by the UN Charter and the resolution of the UNSC 1244? To that, either there is no answer or they supposedly give us some well-intentioned advice and tell us not to look to the past, but to the future. When we ask them, do you also say to Ukraine that the territories they are fighting for are not important? We end the pointless conversation and move on to another subject. 8:29:38Copy

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   🇦🇷 Argentina · Day 1Right of reply

   • In response to what was stated by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on the Malvinas Island, I wanted to remind you that the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding areas are part of the national territory of Argentina, illegally occupied by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, are the subject of a sovereignty dispute between the two countries, recognized by the United Nations and by other international organizations. The illegal occupation by Britain of the islands is from January of 1833, when British forces occupied the islands, expelling the legitimate Argentinian authorities and substituting them this was at a time of peace and in violation of the international law valid at the time, was never recognized by Argentina. The General Assembly in its resolution 2065 recognizes the existence of a sovereignty dispute and urges the government of Argentina and the United Kingdom to renew negotiations in order to find a peaceful and lasting solution to the dispute as a way of decolonizing the territory. The special decolonization Committee has pronounced several times to this effect. 12:29:14Copy

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10. 
    🇰🇲 Comoros · Day 3Azali Assoumani

    • Let us continue in a spirit of teamwork and draw strength from solidarity. If we smile together, it is not because we have no problems, but because we are stronger than our problems." Ladies and gentlemen, for half a century, the Comorian state, still striving for full sovereignty within its internationally recognized borders, remains under what it considers an illegal French occupation, despite the many relevant resolutions of this Assembly. The Comorian side has always favored a peaceful settlement of this dispute and has always believed that dialogue is the only alternative. 2:52:36Copy

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11. 
    🇨🇺 Cuba · Day 5Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla

    • We reject the implementation of unilateral coercive measures. We express our support to and solidarity with each and every nation that is a victim of them. We once again state our solidarity with the Government of National Reconciliation and Unity of Nicaragua. We reiterate our support for the inalienable right of the people of Puerto Rico to self-determination and independence. 3:09:10Copy

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12. 
    🇮🇩 Indonesia · Day 5Sugiono

    • We emerge from a world devastated by war with a shared conviction that never again should humanity leave its future to war and division. And we share a founding promise to build a future of peace. For eight decades, We have worked to turn that promise into progress. Nations freed themselves from colonialism. 8:56:40Copy

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    🇰🇪 Kenya · Day 2William Samoei Ruto

    • At San Francisco, only four African countries were represented, while most of our continent remained under colonial rule. Decolonization transformed the map of the world. replacing colonial subjugation with self-determination as peoples once governed from afar took their place in this Assembly as sovereign equals. The United Nations also made a difference where peace had been broken. 7:49:19Copy

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14. 
    🇵🇰 Pakistan · Day 4Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif

    • For many, there is no closure, only a lifetime spent searching for graves that bear no names. Mr. President, from this podium, I assure my Kashmiri brothers and sisters with fullest authority at my command that we shall continue to extend our full diplomatic, political, and moral support to them till they are granted their inalienable right to self-determination, Kashmir has and always will be Pakistan's jugular vein. Excellencies, another foundation of stability in South Asia is now under strain. The shared waters of the Indus River system are the lifeblood not only for the people of Pakistan but for the entire region. 5:15:33Copy

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    🇱🇨 Saint Lucia · Day 4Philip J. Pierre

    • Cuba has long been celebrated for its continued contribution to health, education, and development across our region and beyond. Saint Lucia stands with the Cuban people in the hope for a better future, supported by the friendship and solidarity of the international community. In the same spirit of transformation and consistent with our commitment to the right of all people to self-determination, Saint Lucia supports Taiwan's full membership in the United Nations. Saint Lucia believes that a truly inclusive United Nations must ensure that its decision-making bodies reflect the world that they serve. 4:32:11Copy

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    🇸🇷 Suriname · Day 1Jennifer Geerlings-Simons

    • The discussion is no longer about whether slavery and colonialism have caused lasting consequences, negative consequences. We know we are living them. We increasingly must focus on how to overcome these effects and on the question of what form reparations should take to achieve that. How countries that have benefited from slavery and colonialism will compensate the effect. 7:27:45Copy

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    🇬🇹 Guatemala · Day 5Right of reply

    • We recall and we would like to tell Belize that there are already mutually agreed upon monitoring mechanisms, such as the one in the office administered by the Organization of American States in the aforementioned area, and we will be asking that office to investigate the supposed incident. And for this, we will submit all relevant reports and even the plane in question. Both states have recognized the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice to put an end to this territorial, insular, and maritime dispute. Guatemala deeply regrets that Belize uses this forum to spread misinformation, using this territorial dispute with Guatemala as an instrument for domestic policy. 9:33:13Copy

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18. 
    🇩🇿 Algeria · Day 6Ahmed Attaf

    • If restoring trust begins with institutional reform, then it cannot be complete without doing justice to the peoples aspiring to self-determination and the realization of their national projects. 1:28:01Copy
    • Within this framework, Algeria reaffirms its principled support for the right of the people of the Western Sahara to self-determination. 1:33:14Copy
    • This is based on our firm conviction that issues of decolonization cannot be resolved ever through imposing a fait accompli or following that logic. 1:33:25Copy

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    🇧🇧 Barbados · Day 3Mia Amor Mottley

    • As it seeks to bring a peaceful resolution through the International Court of Justice for the long outstanding territorial controversy with Venezuela. This is in the interest of the people of Guyana, the people of Venezuela, and the wider people of the Caribbean and Latin America. The Caribbean, my friends, must remain a zone of peace. We cannot accept our region. 8:36:50Copy

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    🇨🇫 Central African Republic · Day 2Faustin Archange Touadera

    • The Global Digital Compact must become a reality. Affordable connectivity, skills transfer, data protection, and a governance of AI in which developing countries decide instead of simply being users. The transformation also requires facing history with lucidity. The wounds left behind by colonization are still being felt on our continent. 6:04:38Copy

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    🇫🇷 France · Day 1Emmanuel Macron

    • We must bolster the effectiveness of the instruments at their disposal so that we can mobilize the private sector better, creating guarantee mechanisms to ensure that in emerging economies middle-income countries and developing countries, a more effective response can be mounted to the problems they face. This is the kind of new partnership we must forge in order to ensure that there is no gap, no division between the North and the South. In a similar vein, this North-South partnership requires and will require us to wield our capacity to reopen a dialogue about our common history, our cultural relationships, And remembrance, this is what France has tried to do over the last few years. Working on the basis of joint scientific works, we've instituted a number of bills to ensure that we restitute cultural artifacts in a way forging a partnership in the name of culture, history, and remembrance. 5:57:09Copy

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    🇬🇲 Gambia (Republic of The) · Day 3Mohammed Jallow

    • The leaders of our two countries have raised our bilateral relations to a strategic level, and we will continue to grow and deepen this important partnership. On the question of the Murukan Sahara, the Gambia supports sustained international efforts towards a peaceful resolution through the United Nations-led political process. We encourage all concerned parties to engage constructively and in good faith. The real initiatives of Moroccan autonomy, the Moroccan-Nigeria gas pipeline, the Atlantic African initiative, amongst others, have provided realistic pathways to finding a lasting political solution to the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara by giving people the development, human rights, security, and stability they need. 4:49:53Copy

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    🇬🇷 Greece · Day 3Kyriakos Mitsotakis

    • And they risk undermining the stability of our wider region, a region which we should not forget still bears an open wound, the unresolved Cyprus issue. 52 years, 52 years have passed since Turkey illegally invaded Cyprus and continue to occupy it, a flagrant violation of international law whose consequences persist to this day. For the United Nations, Cyprus remains a litmus test of its credibility, of its ability to uphold its own resolutions and the principles of the Charter. And Greece fully supports the recent efforts of Secretary General Gutierrez to create the appropriate conditions for the resumption of substantive negotiations. 10:36:01Copy

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    🇬🇹 Guatemala · Day 4Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado

    • We welcome the fact that the International Court of Justice has set the date for the oral hearings concerning the territorial, insular and maritime dispute with Belize. For my country, this is more than a procedural milestone. With the notification of the hearings, the final procedural stage before the Court delivers its judgment has begun. It marks the culmination of a legal dispute that has accompanied the people of Guatemala and successive governments since independence, and whose conclusion we eagerly await. 12:12:45Copy

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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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    🇭🇹 Haiti · Day 4Alix Didier Fils-Aimé

    • This epic story is the eternal proof that no empire can be more powerful than the thirst for freedom of a people. How can we forget the destiny and the hidden tears of Toussaint Louverture, torn violently away from the land of his birth, cast into icy solitude and a dungeon in Fort de Joux, made to suffer hardship and humiliation, This all brought down Toussaint Louverture, but his fight for freedom remained alive through Dessalines, Christophe, Petion, and all of our other founding fathers and mothers. Toussaint Louverture predicted it. He said, "In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty in Saint-Domingue. 6:50:02Copy

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    🇲🇺 Mauritius · Day 4Dhananjay Ramful

    • It concerns our sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. The agreement on the Chagos Archipelago, signed by Mauritius and the United Kingdom in May 2025, stands as living proof that trust in multilateralism and UN judicial organs can achieve the peaceful settlement of disputes and the completion of our nation's decolonization and restore the rights of Mauritians of Chagos origin by force of law. Trust, especially amongst neighbors and in the region, is reinforced when there is respect for the rule of law for the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, the ruling of the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea, and the ICJ's advisory opinion on the Chagos Archipelago, which carries authoritative obligations. We trust that states which laid the very foundation of the new post-war legal order will recommit to full respect and compliance with international law and correct this historical injustice without delay. 11:18:17Copy

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    🇳🇦 Namibia · Day 2Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah

    • However, We call for ethical, responsible, inclusive, and human-centered development and use of artificial intelligence with appropriate safeguard to ensure that technological advancement complements and enhance human capability rather than undermine it. A United Nations that delivers for all must be inclusive. I reaffirm Namibia's unwavering solidarity with the people denied their right to self-determination. This position is firmly rooted in Namibia's historical experience of the brutality and colonialism apartheid and occupation. 7:25:42Copy

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    🇵🇸 Palestine (State of) · Day 3Mahmoud Abbas

    • What is taking place in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem are not isolated incidents. but rather a malicious colonial scheme aimed at making the lives of Palestinians more difficult in their homeland and forcing them to leave it. We warn you today, do not allow another Nakba to occur. Do not allow further massacres like those that occurred in 1948. 1:34:13Copy

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    🇵🇾 Paraguay · Day 2Santiago Peña Palacios

    • Seventy years of uninterrupted diplomatic relations are not merely a number or the product of a mere calculation. They are a testament to the real friendship between our peoples. That is why today I reaffirm our support for the full and meaningful participation of the Republic of China, Taiwan, in the United Nations and its specialized agencies. Taiwan has concrete contributions to make to peace, development and human rights. 1:53:48Copy

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    🇷🇺 Russian Federation · Day 5Sergey Lavrov

    • The start of the work of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance and the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, we believe these are steps in the right direction. Russia supports China's initiative, that is the establishment of a global organization on AI cooperation. In the middle of the previous century, the USSR helped peoples in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to free themselves from colonial dependence. Further democratization in international affairs is impossible unless we eradicate neocolonial practices which remain evident. 3:24:44Copy

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    🇸🇧 Solomon Islands · Day 4Matthew Cooper Wale

    • Mr. President, leaving no one behind demands that we complete the unfinished work of decolonization. Solomon Islands reaffirms its longstanding support for the right to self-determination of the Kanak people of New Caledonia and the Maori Nui people of French Polynesia. The UN decolonization process must offer more than hope. It must provide practical pathways to the full emancipation of peoples in non-self-governing territories and to their freedom to determine their own political future and development aspirations. 4:18:31Copy

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    🇹🇭 Thailand · Day 3Anutin Charnvirakul

    • We have been through a difficult period. When I met with Prime Minister Hun Manet in May, we sought to resolve difficult issues through bilateral dialogue, where rebuilding trust and confidence in order to move forward together. It is regrettable that Cambodia did not give dialogue a genuine chance and chose a different path by initiating compulsory conciliation proceedings under UNCLOS. Nevertheless, Thailand is engaging in good faith, but our position is clear. 9:16:19Copy

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    🇨🇦 Canada · Day 5Anita Anand

    • Canada remains unequivocally committed to the Charter of the United Nations, which Canada helped to shape. Article 1, sub 2 of the UN Charter underlines a foundational principle of this institution, the self-determination of peoples. And let us be clear, self-determination is a right to which both Israelis and Palestinians are entitled. Canada firmly believes that lasting peace and security can be achieved only through a negotiated two-state solution. 7:50:49Copy

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    🇻🇺 Vanuatu · Day 6Odo Tevi

    • Mr. President, Vanuatu reaffirms its unwavering support for the decolonization of Kanaky, New Caledonia, which remains a non-self-governing territory under the purview of the United Nations. 6:31:48Copy
    • We reiterate the inalienable right of the Indigenous Kanak people to self-determination and call for a peaceful, inclusive, transparent, and credible process consistent with the Charter of the United Nations and relevant General Assembly resolutions. 6:32:01Copy
    • Addressing these disparities is essential to fostering social cohesion and advancing a just, inclusive, and sustainable decolonization process. 6:33:06Copy

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    🇧🇷 Brazil · Day 1Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva

    • The UN was born under the sign of hope. Over eight decades, it has contributed to the decolonization, promoted human rights, and supported sustainable development. It has protected migrants and refugees, condemned racism, anti-Semitism, and religious intolerance. These were achievements of leaders who took up to this podium driven by indignation at the injustices of their time. 1:39:41Copy

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    🇰🇭 Cambodia · Day 5Sokhonn Prak

    • For Cambodia, restoring trust must be grounded in concrete commitment. It requires the full and effective implementation in good faith of the agreements reached between our two countries. These include the Kuala Lumpur Joint Declaration, the first young consensus and in particular the joint statement of 27 December 2025 under which both sides committed to the renunciation of the threat or use of force respect for international boundary and to concrete measure to de-escalate tension rebuild trust and advance the normalization of bilateral relation. Among those measures, the prompt resumption of the survey and demarcation work of the Joint Boundary Commission would contribute significantly to addressing outstanding boundary-related claims and establishing a clear and mutually recognized boundary. 2:27:44Copy

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    🇸🇿 Eswatini · Day 2King Mswati III

    • Taiwan plays a vital role in global supply chains. It has much to contribute to the international community and can play a highly meaningful role in building a sustainable future for humanity. The United Nations should seek appropriate ways to facilitate Taiwan's substantive participation in UN meetings and activities, enabling it to share its expertise and actively engage with international partners. Mr. President, as we convene at this pivotal moment in the life of the United Nations, let us remember that our differences need not prevent us from finding common ground. 9:41:57Copy

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

    • In this spirit, my country reaffirms its commitment to the principle of non-interference in the domestic affairs of States and to the respect for their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Against this backdrop, Gabon once again welcomes the adoption of resolution 2797 of 2025, which has injected fresh impetus into the settlement of the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, based exclusively on the autonomy plan under Moroccan sovereignty. Mr. President, restoring trust depends above all on concrete action that enables us to address together global challenges relating to peace and security, climate change, sustainable development and pandemics. Accordingly, in the face of human tragedies across the world and particularly in Africa, greater collective engagement is essential. 7:28:28Copy

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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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    🇬🇾 Guyana · Day 3Mohamed Irfaan Ali

    • Ultimately, the future of Haiti must be Haitian-led and Haitian-owned. Mr. President, turning to my own country, Guyana has always advanced the peaceful settlement of the controversy in relation to our border with Venezuela. Despite the historical truth, clearly outlined in the arbitral award of 1899. That determined the full, perfect, and final settlement of our border with Venezuela. 1:58:12Copy

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    🇯🇲 Jamaica · Day 5Kamina Johnson Smith

    • Mr. President, Jamaica believes that reparatory justice is, at its heart, about truth, acknowledgement, justice, repair, compensation, development, and reconciliation. Jamaica not only supported the General Assembly resolution put forward by Ghana on March 25th of this year, but we also delivered to Buckingham Palace a petition framing critical questions on the matter of reparations. The petition has now been referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Mister President, 64 years after Jamaica proudly raised our black, green, and gold flag as politically independent nation. 8:11:32Copy

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    🇰🇼 Kuwait · Day 3Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah

    • Kuwait believes that a stable, secure, and prosperous Iraq serves the shared interests of Kuwait and the entire region. In this context, the state of Kuwait commends the measures taken by the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mr. Ali Al-Zaidi, to consolidate arms under state control and to strengthen Iraq's bilateral relations with neighboring countries. We look forward to enhancing confidence-building measures between the two countries and to elevate our bilateral relations to broader horizons, as well as to resolve all outstanding issues. Most important of these issues are the maritime border demarcation beyond marker 162, as per the rules of international law and the 1982 UN Convention on Law of the Sea. 7:57:41Copy

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    🇲🇱 Mali · Day 6Abdoulaye Diop

    • Given our history, the international community, in particular Africa, cannot just remain silent in the face of what was being done by Ukraine. It has enormous consequences for African countries and it goes beyond that. we understand very well that Ukraine is just a visible part of the iceberg which is trying to destabilize our country, to break our determination to throw off the colonial yoke. Terrorism, which is nurtured and supported from outside, does it in three ways. 23:20Copy

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    🇲🇭 Marshall Islands · Day 4Hilda Heine

    • Our aspirations must be better matched by partnership and island-scale investment and policy innovation. I must underscore the direct need for data capacity support to measure progress and effectiveness for small island developing states. If we cannot assess the SDGs, we cannot correct course. Mr. President, The Marshall Islands affirms the region Pacific Islands Forum communicate position regarding West Papua, including the 2018 invitation by Indonesia to the UN Human Rights Commissioner. 2:15:05Copy

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    🇲🇿 Mozambique · Day 2Daniel Francisco Chapo

    • It is also this that underlies the support of our defense for solutions for two states for Palestine. living side by side with peace and security with Israel has a legitimate and lasting path forward. The principle of self-determination of the people enshrined in the United Nations Charter as far back as 1945 remains so valid as ever. It is in this context that we reaffirm our principled position in support the cause for the Sahrawi people. 8:49:07Copy

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    🇳🇷 Naoero · Day 1David Ranibok Adeang

    • but it is not the name our people used among themselves. I rise on my first point not to announce a change, but to affirm a truth. Long before our country took its place among the family of nations, long before our name appeared on international records, our people knew our homeland by one name, Nauru. That name carries the memory of our ancestors, our language and our identity. 9:11:56Copy

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    🇳🇪 Niger · Day 4Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman

    • It is a profound lusting irrepressible and irreversible change, inshallah. A change which, by trimming the sharp claws of imperialism, abolishing the trade in black persons and slavery, overthrowing colonialism and neocolonialism, is bringing the peoples of Africa towards independence, sovereignty and liberty. I affirm that our re-foundation in Niger is not targeted against anyone. It is an expression of our will to rely on ourselves, to have total control over our resources, and also responsibility for our choices and our alliances. 6:04:57Copy

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    🇵🇼 Palau · Day 2Surangel Whipps

    • We choose our partners based on our shared values of democracy, human rights, and a rules-based international order, principles that underpin our friendship with Taiwan, a trusted partner that can contribute even more fully if given the space to do so. The UN Charter begins with the commitment we the peoples. Yet the UN marginalizes Taiwan's 23 million people, disregarding that foundational purpose. We stand with like-minded partners in calling for the reversal of misinterpretations of the rules and procedures that have constrained Taiwan's meaningful participation in this body. 4:00:28Copy

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    🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis · Day 4Geoffrey Hanley

    • On March 25, 2026, this General Assembly adopted Resolution 80/250 declaring that trafficking of enslaved African and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. Saint Kitts and Nevis welcome this historic recognition. But recognition cannot be the destination. Repertory justice must move from recognition to remedy and from words to action. 9:18:12Copy

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    🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · Day 1Julius Maada Bio

    • However, The consequences did not end with abolition. Their legacy continues to be reflected in enduring disparities in wealth, power, and opportunity across our world. Reparatory justice is therefore not a plea for charity. It is a call for acknowledgement, former apology, the return of cultural heritage, fair redress, and guarantee of non-repetition. 7:50:39Copy

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    🇿🇦 South Africa · Day 3Ronald Ozzy Lamola

    • In our support of a just and a lasting peace and a two-state solution in accordance with the UN resolution, South Africa is unwavering. We are steadfast in our longstanding solidarity with the people of Western Sahara. We reaffirm their inalienable right to self-determination and support a just, lasting, and a mutually acceptable political solution consistent with international law and the principles of the UN Charter. We are also deeply concerned by the wielding of economic weapons to coerce countries into abandoning their chosen developmental trajectories. 12:10:17Copy

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    🇸🇸 South Sudan · Day 6Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng

    • It was shaped by more than half of a century of struggle, sacrifices, displacement, and unwavering desire for freedom and self-determination. 5:26:51Copy
    • The Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 provided the political framework that transformed struggles, decades of struggles, into a peaceful exercise of self-determination. 5:27:25Copy
    • and leading the people of South Sudan towards the referendum on self-determination. 5:29:11Copy

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    🇹🇱 Timor-Leste · Day 2José Ramos-Horta

    • The risks are too high to continue an unstable status quo. The opportunity to do better sits before us, and the choice is an international order falling to pieces or rising to peace. Regarding Western Sahara, we welcome the Moroccan proposal and the recent Security Council resolution as an opportunity for dialogue. As with any situation of this nature, the people directly interested must be consulted on the future status. 3:11:12Copy

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    🇹🇬 Togo · Day 4Robert Komlan Edo Dussey

    • The need to represent the world based on scientific truth and respecting the equal dignity of the people. Correcting the map is not just rectifying a geographical distortion. It's also correcting the perceptions that come with, in particular in education, in information and in public action. Correcting the map of the world on behalf of scientific truth, on behalf of responsibility in the face of history, on behalf of justice and equity, on behalf of repairing cartographic map distortions that were inherited from the past in English. 12:39:23Copy

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    🇹🇳 Tunisia · Day 5Mohamed Ali Nafti

    • Tunisia's belief in multilateral action is not a product of current circumstances. Rather, it is the continuation of a journey that began before independence, when the national movement brought the cause of the Tunisian people before the United Nations and made the right to self-determination and the recovery of sovereignty an integral part of the struggle for freedom. Following independence, Tunisia engaged fully within the United Nations to complete the foundations of its sovereignty and to build the modern state, and it succeeded in doing so. Restoring confidence in the organization and in multilateral action requires, in our view, two essential conditions. 5:52:19Copy

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    🇹🇷 Türkiye · Day 1Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    • On this occasion, I once again will repeat the call I had made numerous times in previous UNGA sessions. The sovereign equality and equal international status of the Turkish Cypriot people must be recognized, and the inhumane isolation to which they have been subjected must finally come to an end. I call upon the international community to recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and to establish political, diplomatic, and economic relations with them. Esteemed delegates, Turkey, thanks to its growing defense industry and thanks to its resilient economy, continues to be an island of stability in the middle of conflicts in its vicinity. 3:12:29Copy

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    🇻🇪 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Day 2Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez

    • I would be remiss if I did not hear mention here as the very headquarters of international law, our desire to reaffirm the historic rights of Venezuela over Guyana Esequiba. Here, I appeal to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to resolve the issue and to return to negotiations as stipulated by the Geneva Agreement. Agreements which last the longest are those that emerge from bilateral negotiations. They last longer and function better than those imposed by external bodies. 10:30:00Copy

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    🇻🇳 Viet Nam · Day 1To Lam

    • It is therefore my belief that the theme of this session, restoring trust, managing transformation, a UN that delivers for all, aptly reflects the urgent demands of the time. 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. Over the past eight decades, despite its limitations, the UN has helped sustain dialogue, advance decolonization, uphold the right of peoples to self-determination and support development. This must be preserved and carried forward Our institutions must be reformed to keep pace with the times, while fundamental principles of the UN Charter must be respected and reinforced. 9:29:19Copy

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    🇮🇳 India · Day 4Right of reply

    • References were made to the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. This is an integral and inalienable part of my country and will always remain so. But if we must talk about Kashmir, let us turn our attention to the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Ask the people of Rawalpindi about the wanton killings, the brutal violence, and the denial of basic rights that they have long experienced. 12:53:05Copy

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    🇵🇰 Pakistan · Day 4Right of reply

    • From a serving Indian naval commander, Kulbhushan Jadhav, convicted in Pakistan on terrorism and espionage charges, to Nikul Gupta, who pleaded guilty in the United States for plotting murder of a Sikh leader at the hands of its government, and other implicated in assassination carried out in Canada, India's record speaks for itself. Turning over to the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, Jammu and Kashmir never was, neither is, nor will ever be integral part of India. It is an internationally recognized disputed territory, a huge part of which is under India's forcible and illegal occupation for nearly eight decades against the wishes of the Kashmiri people and in gross violation of international law and numerous resolutions of the Security Council. The contrast between Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir could not be more stark. 12:56:20Copy

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    🇮🇷 Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Day 6Right of reply

    • Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Mr. President, in response to the UAE representative, the Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates its full sovereignty over the Iranian islands of Abu Musa, Quriyat al-Tum, and Lesser Tum in the Persian Gulf. They have been, are, and will remain integral parts of our territory, and our sovereignty over them is not negotiable. We therefore categorically reject any claim to the country. I must also stress that Persian Gulf is the only true geographical designation for the body of water lying between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. 7:20:04Copy

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    🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Day 6Right of reply

    • Mr. President, My delegation would like to exercise the right of reply in response to the statement delivered by the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Greater Tomb, the Lesser Tomb, and Abu Musa of the Arab Gulf are islands that are part of the UAE and are under Iranian occupation. We completely reject continued Iranian occupation of the three islands. Any attempt to paint this as an internal Iranian matter does not change the fact that this is an occupied land and should not be under Iran's sovereignty. 7:58:56Copy

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64. 
    🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · Day 6Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré

    • It's the sign of a shared willingness of our states to escape the vicious cycle of structural domination and exploitation that are profoundly rooted in the colonial and neocolonialist legacies. 56:02Copy
    • Anything that goes against the instrumentalization of certain international defense mechanisms to defend human rights, to put political pressure on our countries, like the what the European Parliament did to justify a potential neo-colonial offensive through resolutions, misfounded resolutions against the Sahel. 1:02:27Copy
    • On the question of Western Sahara, Burkina Faso, true to the principles enshrined in the UN Charter, reaffirms its commitment to the political process led under the auspices of the United Nations Secretary-General and based on the autonomy plan proposed by the Kingdom of Morocco. 1:17:13Copy

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    🇩🇰 Denmark · Day 6Christina Markus Lassen

    • It has pointed us toward a world of equal rights, self-determination of peoples, and territorial integrity of all states. 5:48:38Copy
    • More than a billion people lifted out of poverty, standards of living transformed, colonial empires brought to an end, independent nations emerged, peoples gained the right to shape their own future. 5:48:54Copy

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    🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda · Day 6Walton Alfonso Webson

    • Centuries of enslavement and colonial extraction transformed transferred wealth from our societies and denied generations the means to build prosperity. 4:50:28Copy

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    🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Day 6Vijitha Herath

    • Sri Lanka continues to support the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination. 2:41:06Copy

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    🇸🇩 Sudan · Day 6Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim

    • The Palestinian people must be empowered to exercise their right to self-determination and establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital, and refugees must be allowed to return in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy. 3:28:23Copy

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