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
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Day 3Rodrigo Paz Pereirablocking 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.
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Colombia · Day 3José Manuel RestrepoBut 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.
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Fiji · Day 3Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati LalabalavuThis 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.
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Thailand · Day 3Anutin CharnvirakulWe 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.
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Guyana · Day 3Mohamed Irfaan Alithe 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.
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Liberia · Day 3Joseph Nyuma BoakaiThe 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.
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Yemen · Day 3Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzerinternational 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.
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Kuwait · Day 3Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-SabahWe 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.
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Australia · Day 3Anthony AlbaneseOur 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.
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