Drugs and organised crime at UNGA 81

Statements that raised Drugs and organised crime

1. 
   🇧🇴 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Day 3Rodrigo Paz Pereira

   • blocking access to healthcare and education. More than 20 people died, and this was financed by narco terrorism and by drug trafficking. And a helpless, defenseless state that was unable to generate economic and human resources to be able to fight that narco-terrorism, narco-trafficking, which was financing it. Protest and the right to demand a better life is one thing, the right to demand a decent life, better healthcare, education and infrastructure, it is quite another thing. 3:22:46Copy

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   🇧🇷 Brazil · Day 1Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva

   • Nicaragua will not solve its problems by preventing the opposition from running in the elections. The crisis in Haiti continues to test the limits of the international community's indifference. In Cuba, the world watches in horror as collective punishment is imposed on 10 million people by an illegal economic and energy embargo. Mr. President, Brazil does not underestimate the challenge represented by organized crime. 1:28:23Copy

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   🇵🇪 Peru · Day 1Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi

   • The first major challenge we face is the frontal assault we must wage on organized crime and petty crime. Peru is located on a continent in which there are no wars between nations. However, we are faced with another type of war, that is that declared by transnational criminal organizations, organizations that have sowed terror among our people. In this war, There are no battle grounds, no fronts. 4:28:42Copy

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   🇺🇸 United States of America · Day 1Donald Trump

   • It didn't work. Didn't even come close to working. For decades, other administrations allowed much of this region to be dominated by vicious gangs and bloodthirsty drug cartels, destabilized by uncontrolled migration, and infiltrated by hostile foreign adversaries, foreign, sick, demented adversaries. But not anymore. 2:08:18Copy

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   🇪🇨 Ecuador · Day 2Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin

   • The weapons that reach our streets cross several countries. The money that finances mafias is laundered far from where the crimes are committed. The roots of drug trafficking and people trafficking and illegal mining cross continents. Criminals have already globalized their cooperation. 4:58:47Copy

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   🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago · Day 1Kamla Persad-Bissessar

   • Transnational organized crime, continues to pose a serious threat to the security and development of small island states. Small states face serious challenges from sophisticated criminal networks that move people, that move weapons, that move narcotics, and illicit finance across national borders. For Trinidad and Tobago, this is not an abstract threat. These networks directly endanger our citizens, they endanger our institutions, and they endanger our development. 10:22:10Copy

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   🇬🇹 Guatemala · Day 4Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado

   • At the same time, democracy faces a twofold challenge: the resurgence of authoritarian tendencies that seek to undermine the will of the people, and the spread of organized criminal networks that infiltrate institutions, corrupt justice systems, capture economies and territories, and erode public trust. Transnational organised crime is more than just a threat to public security. It is a direct threat to democracy, the rule of law and the ability of our peoples to freely determine their future. Criminal networks do not recognise borders. 12:00:00Copy

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   🇭🇹 Haiti · Day 4Alix Didier Fils-Aimé

   • There's a need for forces. Equipment is needed, and one needs to resolve to see the effort through. However, there is another security challenge that should compel us all collectively to act. The illicit trafficking in weapons and ammunition. 7:00:34Copy

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   🇯🇲 Jamaica · Day 5Kamina Johnson Smith

   • Our task now as a global community is to translate commitments into action. Mr. President, development also requires peace and security. For Jamaica and our wider Caribbean region, transnational organized crime remains a serious threat. Last year, from this very podium, Prime Minister Andrew Holness called for a global war on gangs, a coordinated international effort capable of matching the reach, financing, and sophistication of transnational criminal networks. 8:06:55Copy

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10. 
    🇸🇾 Syrian Arab Republic · Day 2Ahmad Al-Sharaa

    • We rebuilt military and civilian institutions. Sanctions were lifted. Projects for reconstructions have continued. We've combated drug trafficking, and we focused on transitional justice. 18:43Copy

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    🇨🇱 Chile · Day 1José Antonio Kast

    • For months, there was an outbreak of violence, chaos reigned and disorder prevailed. All of that brought consequences with it. Investment plummeted, employment ground to a standstill and homicide levels rose to an extent that Chile had never seen in modern history as a result of the rising tide of organised crime. And that all happened until very recently, until now. 4:43:13Copy

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    🇫🇯 Fiji · Day 3Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu

    • This is also a security question. Methamphetamine trafficked into our region by transnational criminal networks is now driving transmission through injecting drug use. Our borders are ocean. Our populations are small. 6:46:29Copy

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    🇵🇦 Panama · Day 2José Raúl Mulino Quintero

    • People trafficking organizations linked to drug trafficking used and abused this space to transport more families, and the result of it was women and children, children ending up orphaned in one of the worst social disasters that my country can remember. In addition to this, we must add the ecological damage caused in a biodiversity reserve, the Darien Gap Reserve, and this has still not recovered. And this is, there's a situation where there's more than a million people transiting across it. And since the first day, I knew that we needed to resolve this issue individually, like I did, because this organization wasn't able to do it. 6:11:54Copy

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    🇸🇧 Solomon Islands · Day 4Matthew Cooper Wale

    • And it is why the world needs a stronger, more agile United Nations, one equipped to respond to the realities of today. Mr. President, the Pacific faces a grave and growing threat. Transnational criminal networks are using our ocean as a highway for illicit drugs, undermining our sovereignty and national security, destroying young lives and tearing at the fabric of our communities. Behind every statistic stands a family, a community, a young life robbed of its promise. 4:00:52Copy

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    🇹🇭 Thailand · Day 3Anutin Charnvirakul

    • We believe in constructive and calibrated re-engagement within ASEAN and in coordination with relevant partners while encouraging concrete progress on the ground. In both cases, our responsibility is to make dialogue possible and progress achievable. And when threats cross borders, responsibility must be shared more widely. My country has stepped up efforts on prevention and suppression of narcotics through our partnership with the UNODC. 9:18:19Copy

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    🇰🇭 Cambodia · Day 5Sokhonn Prak

    • Artificial intelligence and digital innovation can accelerate development and expand opportunities, but their misuse can also deepen inequality, insecurity, and transnational crime. Combating online scam has become one of our highest national priority. Cambodia has strengthened its legal and institutional framework and intensified law enforcement operation against scam centers and the criminal network behind them with undeniable result. But no country can succeed alone. 2:32:55Copy

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    🇨🇴 Colombia · Day 3José Manuel Restrepo

    • But there is another reality that is very often overlooked. The illicit drugs produced in Colombia don't end up in Colombia. Drugs trafficking is a transnational Criminal enterprise, its root. 4:59:44Copy

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    🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Day 6Vijitha Herath

    • In delivering on this mandate, We have placed good governance, anti-corruption and institutional transparency at the core of a comprehensive national integrity drive that is being vigorously pursued. 2:46:30Copy
    • We have seen all too clearly how corruption weakens democracy and destroys trust. 2:46:47Copy
    • We continue to enforce the law against corruption without fear or favour, irrespective of a person's background or social standing. 2:46:54Copy

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19. 
    🇦🇺 Australia · Day 3Anthony Albanese

    • Our geography gives us a unique perspective as a Pacific nation inhabiting an entire continent and connected to Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and Antarctica. We feel joined to our region not just by geography, but by our close human connections, including family. We are one of the world's most successful multicultural democracies, proudly home to the oldest continuous civilisation on earth, our First Nations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and home also to people from more than 300 different ancestries, with more than half of our population either born overseas or having at least one parent born overseas. We are investing in the multilateral system by elevating Pacific voices in shaping global decision making, working with them to advance their development needs and counter the transnational organised crime that is spreading across the beautiful Pacific Ocean that we share. 11:06:01Copy

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    🇨🇦 Canada · Day 5Anita Anand

    • We will continue to implement UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea. And by working with our regional partners, we are cracking down on transnational crime, including scam centers. Canada's position on Iran is unequivocal. Iran is the principal threat to peace and security in its region. 7:46:23Copy

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    🇭🇷 Croatia · Day 1Andrej Plenković

    • Our primary responsibility is to our citizens and it starts at our borders. We are not allowing uncontrolled migration and we are fighting the criminal networks that facilitate it. As an EU external border country, Croatia carries an additional responsibility and we will fulfill it with determination. Transformation is equally important in our own neighborhood. 11:27:57Copy

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    🇩🇴 Dominican Republic · Day 2Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona

    • Today, transnational criminal networks control territories, they traffic arms and people, and they recruit children. Haiti, our neighbor, is the clearest example of this. Since 2021, the Dominican Republic has warned in each and every forum that this crisis is a threat to the peace and security of the region, and particularly for my country. A year ago, from this same rostrum, I called upon the council to act without delay. 4:29:35Copy

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    🇬🇾 Guyana · Day 3Mohamed Irfaan Ali

    • the development of our countries and the stability and prosperity of our region. Mister President, in pursuit of a stronger and safer region, Guyana is honored to be a founding member of the Shield of the Americas, launched by President Trump in March 2026. Since the founding of this initiative, Guyana has worked closely with the United States and 13 other like-minded nations that believe in building a Western Hemisphere that values freedom, peace, economic prosperity, and a shared responsibility and commitment to fighting transnational crime and criminal networks. It is our collective responsibility to never allow our region to be overtaken by gangs or criminal networks. 2:00:00Copy

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    🇭🇳 Honduras · Day 2Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah

    • We are equipping and strengthening our national police force and our armed forces. We're doing this because transnational organized crime does not respect borders. Drug trafficking networks and gangs operate in several countries at the same time, and no country can vanquish them alone. It is a matter of shared responsibility. 9:50:33Copy

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    🇮🇶 Iraq · Day 4Ali Falih Al-Zaidi

    • In terms of risks, we continue to confront organized crime by cooperating with all friends to repel the dangers of organized crime and to abort the cross-border drug trade. We call for more information sharing and international coordination to ward off this danger that threatens societies. Amid these challenges, the well-being of the Iraqi people remains our ultimate objective and the focus of all of our efforts. Given the high proportion of young people in our society, we seek to make them a true driving force of the future economy through education, the diversification of employment opportunities, support for entrepreneurship, and the advancement of digital economy. 1:19:01Copy

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

    • We also emphasize the need to adhere to bilateral security and technical agreements and arrangements signed between the two countries. Very important among these agreements is the Khur Abdallah Agreement and the 2008 Security Exchange Protocol. These agreements serve as vital legal and practical instruments for regulating navigation, protecting the environment, combating terrorism, as well as combating the illicit trafficking of arms and narcotics, and enhancing shared security. The State of Kuwait calls upon Iraq to cooperate with the High Level Representative of the Secretary General pursuant to Security Council Resolution 2792 in order to achieve the progress and desired outcomes regarding Kuwaiti prisoners and missing persons. 7:58:36Copy

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    🇱🇷 Liberia · Day 3Joseph Nyuma Boakai

    • The cause of preventing war places comprising the cause of building broken society. As a current member of the United Nations Security Council, Liberia is putting these principles into practice while confronting evolving threats across West Africa, including transnational organized crime, cyber war, and illicit according trafficking along maritime corridors in the Gulf of Guinea. Through our joint security forces, we are tightening the vise on transnational drug cartels. No nation can police global criminal network alone. 3:05:55Copy

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    🇱🇾 Libya · Day 2Mohamed Younis Menfi

    • When the state weakens, The vacuum does not remain empty. Competing interests fill it. Armed groups become active within it. Criminal and smuggling networks spread. 3:34:27Copy

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    🇲🇷 Mauritania · Day 4Mohamed Salem Merzoug

    • We have to ensure a fair share of the responsibilities and burdens and address the root causes of irregular migration while combating human trafficking. and smuggling. To contain such influxes and ensure at the same time the dignity of migrants and their rights. The solution is in our common responsibility and solidarity. 10:39:23Copy

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    🇳🇮 Nicaragua · Day 5Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke Whitaker

    • The scourges of our time are the greatest threat and greatest danger to our societies because they deprive us of our heritage. and we see major crimes linked to drug trafficking and organized crime, which are forms of terrorism, which assail us and make us sick. Against this intimidating backdrop, our purpose, our vote, our commitment has been and remains clear, and we aspire to gather with more peoples around the urgent need to curb these afflictions and to bring about safety and to provide education, food, health, peace and development for all. We would like warmly to greet all delegations who are present here, and we hope that you will join our commitment to address these challenges and to alleviate the suffering that we have mentioned. 4:38:17Copy

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    🇵🇾 Paraguay · Day 2Santiago Peña Palacios

    • Dialogue, talking, is one way of standing with the Venezuelan people. It's also a way of jointly combating transnational crime, which knows no borders and which harms our entire region. Today, I call on all my Latin American brothers and sisters, but also on these United Nations. Let us come together to help Venezuela, this beautiful country, to reintegrate into the world and achieve a democratic government that respects human rights. 1:49:44Copy

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    🇱🇨 Saint Lucia · Day 4Philip J. Pierre

    • Weapons and drugs trafficked through international networks instigate violence and gang warfare in our region. Lack of access to affordable technology slows our development. Mr. President, Saint Lucia refuses to give up. We are educating our people to ensure that their skills are relevant. 4:39:09Copy

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

    • We must confront the reality of arms trafficking including assault weapons that are terrorizing Haitian communities and indeed communities across the Caribbean. We don't make these weapons in the Caribbean. They are manufactured in industrial nations and smuggled across borders into our region, into our countries. We therefore call upon all countries to take decisive action to stem the illicit flow of weapons and ammunitions across borders and into the Caribbean. 8:16:25Copy

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    🇼🇸 Samoa · Day 4Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo

    • These are critical to the implementation of SDG 14. Our maritime domain is increasingly exploited by transnational criminal networks involved in illegal trafficking, including illicit drugs moving through our region. Illicit drugs enter homes, harm young people, fuel violence, and place increasing pressure on communities and essential services. Excellencies, non-communicable disease represents one of the most serious development challenges to Samoa's public health and economic productivity. 8:53:33Copy

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    🇸🇨 Seychelles · Day 1Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie

    • Transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, and illegal, underreported, and unregulated fishing threaten our security. wreck our marine ecosystems, and steal from our people. Because these threats are interconnected, our response must be equally integrated. Stronger international intelligence sharing, expanded maritime surveillance, and practical law enforcement support. 9:02:40Copy

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    🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Day 5Sirojiddin Muhriddin

    • Innovation must serve humanity. Technological transformation is only one dimension of a rapidly changing world. Old threats are also evolving, and new ones are crossing borders faster than ever. Mr. President, terrorism and extremism, cybercrime, illicit trafficking in arms and narcotic drugs, organized crime -- these threats know no borders. 5:41:55Copy

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    🇹🇴 Tonga · Day 4Lord Fakafanua

    • transnational crime, illicit drugs, illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, cyber threats and unresolved consequences of nuclear testing and radioactive. contamination remain. In this respect, our region is committed to directly utilizing innovative technologies and working closely with our trusted security partners to address our security challenges. We are committed to protecting the rights of marginalized people and ending violence against women and young girls. 8:29:48Copy

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    🇻🇳 Viet Nam · Day 1To Lam

    • Vietnam stands ready to work with partners to strengthen cooperation and build capacity in preventing and combating cyber crime so that people may live safely and benefit from technological progress. We also stand ready to support international initiatives on green and digital transformation and the development of effective governance framework so that science and technology can truly become drivers of shared development. Fourth, we must strengthen multilateralism and the essential, indispensable role of the UN. The strength of the UN does not lie in its ability to replace the responsibilities of state, but in its legitimacy and capacity to build consensus, establish norms, develop rules, and mobilize global efforts to address common challenges. 9:35:36Copy

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    🇹🇭 Thailand · Day 6Right of reply

    • We must therefore ask, when will Cambodia break free from this vicious cycle, move forward, and join us in opening a new chapter in our relations? And for this to happen, Thailand expects genuine sincerity from Cambodia. That begins with demonstrating goodwill in international forums, refraining from provocative action along the border, and pursuing concrete cooperation to ensure border security, particularly through humanitarian demining and joint efforts to combat cross-border crime, including, of course, online scams. Mr. President, Thailand and Cambodia are neighbors. 7:18:35Copy

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40. 
    🇾🇪 Yemen · Day 3Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer

    • international reports have exposed growing cooperation between the terrorist Houthi militias and terrorist organizations, including in the Horn of Africa, through networks linking militias, terrorist groups, smugglers, and organized crime networks, thereby undermining states and threatening security and stability. Ladies and gentlemen, we say with full confidence and we firmly believe that restoring the Yemeni state and restoring the security of Bab el-Mandeb are inseparable. They are not two separate issues, but one and the same. Supporting the Yemeni government and strengthening its economic security and military capacities is an investment in international peace and security. 7:36:47Copy

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    🇨🇷 Costa Rica · Day 6Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero

    • Transnational organized crime is broadening its capacity to act. 6:01:45Copy
    • Transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, trafficking in persons, weapons smuggling, asset laundering, cybercrime and illegal mining transcend national borders and undermine democratic stability, development and the rule of law. 6:03:26Copy

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    🇩🇿 Algeria · Day 6Ahmed Attaf

    • nor can poverty and marginalization be effectively tackled in isolation from a security environment that enables terrorist groups and organized crime networks to expand and spread and take root. 1:39:02Copy

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    🇸🇻 El Salvador · Day 6Alexandra Hill Tinoco

    • Care is free and drugs are free too, and we are the first in the world to achieve this feat. 2:02:03Copy

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    🇲🇼 Malawi · Day 6George Chapatula Chaponda

    • We remain deeply committed to upholding the constitutional rights of all our citizens, strengthening our democratic institutions and maintaining an uncompromising stance against corruption. 2:24:57Copy

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