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
Ecuador · Day 2Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa AzinThe 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.
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Syrian Arab Republic · Day 2Ahmad Al-SharaaWe rebuilt military and civilian institutions.
Sanctions were lifted.
Projects for reconstructions have continued.
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Panama · Day 2José Raúl Mulino QuinteroPeople 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.
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Paraguay · Day 2Santiago Peña PalaciosDialogue, 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.
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Libya · Day 2Mohamed Younis MenfiWhen the state weakens, The vacuum does not remain empty.
Competing interests fill it.
Armed groups become active within it.
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Dominican Republic · Day 2Luis Rodolfo Abinader CoronaToday, 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.
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Honduras · Day 2Nasry Juan Asfura ZablahWe 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.
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