Crime and terrorism
Drugs and organised crime at UNGA 81
Raised by 44 of 223 speakers. Read verbatim UN transcript quotes and select a time to hear the speech.
Speeches that raised drugs and organised crime
Brazil · Day 1Luiz Inácio Lula Da SilvaNicaragua 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.
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United States of America · Day 1Donald TrumpIt 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.
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Peru · Day 1Keiko Sofia Fujimori HiguchiThe 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.
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Trinidad and Tobago · Day 1Kamla Persad-BissessarTransnational 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.
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Chile · Day 1José Antonio KastFor 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.
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Seychelles · Day 1Mathew Antonio Patrick HerminieTransnational 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.
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Viet Nam · Day 1To LamVietnam 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.
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Croatia · Day 1Andrej PlenkovićOur 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.
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