Migration and refugees at UNGA 81

Statements that raised Migration and refugees

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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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   🇫🇯 Fiji · Day 3Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu

   • They pay for school fees, rebuild homes after lots of cyclones, and sustain families between harvests. Your Excellencies, they are not aid. They are the earnings of Fijians abroad and sent home. Yet, Pacific corridors remain among the most expensive in the world through which to send money. 6:44:13Copy

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   🇭🇹 Haiti · Day 4Alix Didier Fils-Aimé

   • We need to be the masters of technology and never its subjects, and no people should ever be left behind. We also need to keep the promise of a world where no one is condemned to suffer hunger, to be deprived of care, or to be displaced by war, or to fall victim to exclusion or discrimination. This same requirement for dignity needs to guide our approach to migrations as well, because behind statistics and debates, there are women, children, and men who carry with them a history, talents, hopes, and sometimes the burden of exile. For generations, Haitians settled abroad have contributed to the societies that welcomed them. 6:53:37Copy

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   🇵🇦 Panama · Day 2José Raúl Mulino Quintero

   • Since 2021, this organization has been working on recommendations and calling out illegal migration across the Darien and established a basis of humanitarian aid. and looked like more of a concentration camp in the midst of the 21st century. However, in practical terms, the transit of people increased in 2022 and even more in 2023 and in the first six months of 2024. So it went from being uncontrolled migration and turned into huge illegal migration. 6:11:09Copy

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   🇧🇪 Belgium · Day 1Maxime Prévot

   • People have always moved, and they will continue to do so. And governments have a duty to manage that movement and to ensure that migration takes place safely, regularly, and in accordance with the law. Order is itself a matter of human rights. When migration is left in the hands of smugglers and traffickers, people are exploited, placed in danger, and sometimes lost at sea. 11:58:39Copy

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   🇨🇱 Chile · Day 1José Antonio Kast

   • Sustainable development requires robust institutions, clear rules, timely decisions and effective administration, able to turn commitments and diagnoses into tangible results for both people and the environment. President, I now wish to turn to a discussion of our continent, Latin America, because I sincerely believe that the coming decade can be ours. For the first time in a long time, Latin American governments are really, truly uniting and working together, not by simply issuing communiques, but getting to know each other and speaking to each other to really come up with common plans against transnational organized crime, migration control, and coming together to forge joint development opportunities. Latin America is the continent of the future, and those of us that lead the continent today are ready to give momentum to that change. 4:50:24Copy

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   🇭🇺 Hungary · Day 3András Bálint Baka

   • We will fight illegal migration and the criminal networks that profit from it by respecting human dignity and the protection given to refugees. But security is not only about borders and war. People also need the chance to build the future where they live. They need homes, schools, health care, and ways to earn a living. 3:42:18Copy

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   🇲🇰 North Macedonia · Day 4Hristijan Mickoski

   • More than 100 million people have been displaced by force. More than 270 million children and young people are not in the school. This is the paradox of our time. Humanity has never possessed such immense scientific and technological capabilities. 3:31:07Copy

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

   • We have seen an increase in agriculture production to ensure self-sufficiency. We also enhance the service sector the housing sector have been focused on, we recovered. 3.5 million refugees and IDPs have returned in a safe and decent way. Syria turned from a crisis to an opportunity for many countries. 21:28Copy

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    🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Day 3Tarique Rahman

    • In many countries around the world, migrants make important contributions to the economies of both their countries of origin and their countries of destination. The government of Bangladesh is committed to ensuring regular, safe, and orderly migration. Bangladesh expects stronger global cooperation to ensure the rights, dignity, and well-being of migrants. Mr. President, for more than nine years, Bangladesh has been sheltering more than 1.2 million forcibly displaced Rohingya from Myanmar. 9:37:08Copy

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    🇧🇹 Bhutan · Day 1Tshering Tobgay

    • But our economy is small. It cannot yet create enough opportunities for our young people. So too many of them leave home to find opportunity elsewhere. For a country as small as ours, this is not only an economic challenge, it is an existential one. 10:06:19Copy

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    🇧🇮 Burundi · Day 2Évariste Ndayishimiye

    • In closing, I would like to raise the question of youth, the most precious asset on which the entire international community can and must rely. I speak today not only as a committed friend of young people, but also on the basis of a clear observation. Our intellectual youth has become the target of sustained, deliberate, and organized pursuit by most of the wealthiest nations, even though our youth's first calling should be to serve their parents, their loved ones, and their homeland, who have invested so much in their education. Many African states devote considerable resources to education. 1:15:32Copy

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    🇨🇫 Central African Republic · Day 2Faustin Archange Touadera

    • The same is true for women whose role in peacebuilding is not a bonus, but a prerequisite. Mr. President, my country, like so many others, is experiencing the impact of crises surrounding it, from refugee movements to pressure on our borders. The war in neighboring Sudan has pushed more than 27,000 refugees to settle around the city of Burao alone. Population of Burao has more than doubled, exerting intolerable pressure on water resources and on already strained services. 6:00:27Copy

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    🇭🇷 Croatia · Day 1Andrej Plenković

    • It strengthens Europe's sovereignty and capacity to act, reduces external dependence, creates economic opportunity, and makes our societies more resilient. The same principle applies to illegal migration, which has caused mistrust in Europe and altered the political landscape in many countries. This situation is unacceptable and it cannot continue. The rule of law must be upheld and legal procedures must be followed. 11:27:23Copy

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    🇩🇯 Djibouti · Day 5Abdoulkader Houssein Omar

    • Djibouti is following the situation in Yemen with grave concern. We are indeed directly experiencing its effects with the recent arrival in our territory of several thousand people fleeing the violence. This situation is already placing considerable pressure on host communities in the Obock region, as well as on the reception capacity of the Markazai site. Djibouti alone cannot meet the growing needs for shelter, food and essential services. 6:47:20Copy

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

    • Sometimes it can change the course of a nation. That experience also gives us an obligation. If the international community could stand with the Gambia at a moment of fragility, then countries facing similar moments should be able to count on the same solidarity. Across the world, however, conflicts continue to destroy lives, displace populations, and reverse decades of development. 4:35:12Copy

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    🇬🇷 Greece · Day 3Kyriakos Mitsotakis

    • We praise all reunification efforts. A stable Libya, free from foreign interference, would benefit not only the Libyan people, but our entire region. And Greece is ready to support Libyan institutions in border protection, in migration management. And we remain fully committed to reaching an agreement on the delimitation of our maritime zones. 10:33:57Copy

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    🇮🇸 Iceland · Day 5Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir

    • The freedoms codified in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea are not optional, not at all. And for an island nation dependent on open maritime routes, freedom of navigation is fundamental. Madam President, 75 years after the 1951 Refugee Convention, we should have hoped that the need for it would be diminishing. Instead, humanitarian needs and forced displacement have reached staggering levels. 4:02:00Copy

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    🇮🇹 Italy · Day 2Antonio Tajani

    • It is not aid handed down from above, but a partnership among equals in agriculture and energy, education and training, infrastructure, and in the pharmaceutical sector. Producing vaccines in Africa saves lives, strengthens health systems, creates jobs, and supports growth capable of generating stability. It is in this spirit and in defense of the right not to be forced to migrate that we fight against human traffickers who prey on poverty. Agreements with countries of origin and transit help us combat irregular migration, while education, training, and access to employment support safe and regular migration. 12:17:18Copy

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    🇱🇸 Lesotho · Day 4Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane

    • We therefore call for enhanced cooperation in technology sharing, capacity building, and sustainable health financing to build resilient health systems capable of responding to current and emerging challenges. Mr. President, migration is not an abstract concept for the people of Lesotho. It is a daily lift reality. It is woven into our social fabric as human ambition rooted dignity, opportunity and aspiration. 3:00:30Copy

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    🇲🇷 Mauritania · Day 4Mohamed Salem Merzoug

    • People's mobility strives for a better future, better job opportunities, better development. However, the high influx of migration and their complexity reveals the reality that should be analyzed without any exaggerations. and it should also preserve the unity of societies. We need an effective response to this challenge through cooperation between the countries of origin, transit, and destination. 10:38:35Copy

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    🇫🇲 Micronesia (Federated States of) · Day 5Aren Palik

    • Mr. President, our people are the most important and most valuable national resource. We remain committed to delivering effective public services and advancing Micronesia priorities for our citizens, wherever they reside. I am pleased to announce the adoption of Micronesia's National Migration Policy with the technical support of the International Organization for Migration. Micronesia will strengthen the protection, engagement, and well-being of its citizens, including members of diaspora. 39:57Copy

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    🇵🇭 Philippines · Day 5Ma. Theresa Lazaro

    • put a face to the tireless migrant workers and seafarers who keep the global community afloat. Millions of migrant workers leave their homes to search for a better life, contributing immeasurably to the sustainable development of countries of origin, transit and destination. They are committed to full human rights, and fundamental freedoms regardless of status and deserve steadfast protection from trafficking and exploitation along perilous migration routes. Among them, our seafarers form an indispensable lifeline of global commerce. 2:44:24Copy

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    🇹🇳 Tunisia · Day 5Mohamed Ali Nafti

    • Guided by its firm belief in the importance of investing in people, Tunisia once again calls for a comprehensive and balanced approach to migration that takes into account its human and historical dimensions and moves beyond a narrow security perspective while addressing its root causes, foremost among them conflict, poverty, economic and social disparities. lack of employment opportunities and development, and the proliferation of human trafficking networks. Such an approach would embody shared responsibility, solidarity, and cooperation among countries of origin, transit, and destination. In this context, the Tunisian authorities continue their efforts to save the lives of irregular migrants on land and at sea, provide them with care and create suitable conditions for their voluntary return to their countries of origin in coordination with the International Organization for Migration, while safeguarding their dignity and rights and combating human trafficking and migrant smuggling, and also supporting them once they are back in their countries of origin. 6:07:36Copy

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    🇹🇻 Tuvalu · Day 4Feleti Teo

    • Mr. President, in the Pacific, Pacific leaders have adopted the Pacific Resilience Facility, a regional financing mechanism to help our communities respond effectively to the growing impact of climate change. To value calls on the international community and our development partners to support the full capitalization of the Pacific Resilience Facility to enable Pacific-led and Pacific own solutions to build resilience where it matters most. Mr. President, adaptation and building resilience against the impact of climate change will reduce the severity of climate change, but will not eliminate all consequences of climate change. One of those consequences is people deciding to migrate and set up home elsewhere. 3:22:51Copy

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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
    • They assisted displaced communities, they mediated disputes, and kept alive the belief that reconciliation was possible. 5:28:13Copy
    • Refugees and internally displaced persons must not be left out. 5:32:28Copy

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    🇦🇷 Argentina · Day 2Javier Gerardo Milei

    • There you will find a vast land of fertile fields, oil, minerals, and human talent. a land that has welcomed millions who crossed oceans in the hope that their children would live better lives than they had, and who built one of the most prosperous nations on earth. We have a responsibility to live up to that legacy. We do not know exactly what the world now being born will look like, but we do know what kind of nation we want to be when it arrives. 2:39:26Copy

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

    • People who lose their homes do not disappear. They move and they arrive at someone's border. Prevention costs less than rebuilding or relocating. The Bahamas is taking action, but no nation acting alone can hold back the tides, nor can we build resilience inside a financial system designed at Bretton Woods in 1944, which still declares us too prosperous to help until the next storm makes us poor. 6:35:03Copy

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    🇧🇧 Barbados · Day 3Mia Amor Mottley

    • Barbadian novelist and essayist George Laming once described the Caribbean as perhaps the first global experiment in human history. Bringing together and I quote every branch of the human family. From the indigenous peoples of the Americas to the diverse peoples from Africa, Europe, and Asia. It is as though that we through this torturous and shared history of migration, conquest, slavery, and the difficult work of constructing a common national and regional destiny that we give the world an example to follow. 8:14:17Copy

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    🇧🇾 Belarus · Day 5Maxim Ryzhenkov

    • We see this everywhere. The air is thick with anxiety from Europe to the Middle East, from Asia to Africa and Latin America. Wars and conflicts are engulfing the world. They are claiming lives, tearing families apart, turning thriving cities into ruins and giving rise to ever more waves of mass forced migration. 5:15:08Copy

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    🇨🇲 Cameroon · Day 5Lejeune Mbella Mbella

    • We should underline that the authorities of Cameroon have continued to multiply and consolidate these results. And I can assure you of Cameroon's constant commitment to solidarity with displaced populations, refugees, and host communities, despite the multitude of limitations that affect these situations. Mr. President, in a world that is increasingly unstable, We have the duty to do everything possible to create conditions that favor peace, security, and stability of our international political environment in order to ensure well-being for everyone. We have the opportunity to do this. 9:28:06Copy

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    🇹🇩 Chad · Day 4Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat

    • Through its constant vision for years now, Chad has remained one of the main African contributors of troops to peacekeeping operations throughout the world. Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, This solidarity that we project outwards is something we also experience every day within our own borders. Since April 2023, more than a million Sudanese refugees have crossed our eastern border, fleeing a bloody conflict. Along with displaced persons from other regional crises, my country is currently hosting more than 2 million people who've been forcibly displaced. 11:33:51Copy

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    🇰🇲 Comoros · Day 3Azali Assoumani

    • We strongly condemn initiatives of cooperation with the local authorities of Mayotte, as well as a recent statement by the French Prime Minister linking development assistance to the pursuit of migrants. Under General Assembly resolution 3385 of 12 November 1975 and 31/4 of 21 November 1976, and Security Council Resolution 376, Comorians are at home in Mayotte. For the Comorian nation, sovereignty of the entire archipelago is not for sale. We therefore urge the French authorities to rethink the political narrative, to reconsider recently announced measures and pursue productive cooperation and mutually beneficial partnership for both France and the Comoros. 2:54:34Copy

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    🇨🇾 Cyprus · Day 2Nikos Christodoulides

    • Cyprus has also played a constructive role in times of emergency. When third country nationals needed to be evacuated from our neighborhood, My country has served time and time again as a safe harbor. Our infrastructure and our resources have been made available in order to facilitate safe passage for people in danger. In the last three years alone, we helped evacuate thousands of citizens from 70 different countries. 4:11:24Copy

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    🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo · Day 2Judith Suminwa Tuluka

    • Mr. Presidents, this need for resilience does not stop at the boundaries of health. It is also vital when it comes to climate disruptions, whose effects are already putting our societies under growing pressure. Flooding, droughts, and erosion, not to mention population displacement, are threatening our stability. In light of these upheavals, Not all countries bear the same responsibility or the same burden. 12:05:23Copy

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    🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea · Day 3Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue

    • Therefore, 21st century cooperation should provide opportunities for the mobilization of financing to transform raw materials and to develop one's own knowledge and technologies. Excellencies, this vision is especially relevant for Africa, which needs investments that can allow it to develop local value chains, build infrastructure, advance industrialization, strengthen human capital, incorporate new technologies, and generate employment, especially for the continent's large youth population. A more productive and industrialized Africa will be a stronger partner to the benefit of all of those wanting to halt its immigration. Excellencies, when the 2030 Agenda was adopted, the world embraced its deeply human vision, eradicating poverty, protecting the planet, and making sure that all people can live with dignity, leaving no one behind. 4:21:18Copy

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    🇪🇪 Estonia · Day 2Alar Karis

    • We also see instrumentalization of migration as a means of exerting pressure on countries, whether on the European Union, Eastern and Southern borders or elsewhere. Irregular migration is increasingly becoming a security issue. and it requires a coordinated international response. Ladies and gentlemen, if we want a United Nations that is more effective in terms of decision making, more efficient in managing available resources, and up to date on technological developments, we adopt as its shared task to readjust the structure of United Nations around the three pillars. 2:50:38Copy

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    🇬🇪 Georgia · Day 3Irakli Kobakhidzhe

    • Twenty percent of our country remains under the occupation of the Russian Federation, while hundreds of thousands of our citizens continue to live in displacement, unable to return to their homes. While restoring trust is a major theme of this year's session, I would like to address our Abkhaz and Ossetian brothers and sisters. We have shared a homeland and a history for centuries. The divisions of today cannot erase that history, nor should they determine the future of our children. 9:23:12Copy

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    🇻🇦 Holy See · Day 5Cardinal Pietro Parolin

    • Particular attention must to be paid to those categories of persons most at risk, those in the womb, the elderly, the disabled, the sick, refugees and migrants, the unemployed, the marginalized, the lonely, and those living under condition of extreme poverty, violence, or conflict. Among these fundamental rights, religious freedom occupies a privileged place. It is not a secondary liberty, but an essential dimension of the human person. Tragically, Christians in many parts of the world continue to suffer discrimination, violence, and outright persecution. 1:47:34Copy

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    🇱🇻 Latvia · Day 2Edgars Rinkēvičs

    • Guarding the eastern border of NATO and the European Union, Latvia faces these threats every day. Illegal migrants are deliberately exploited and pushed towards our border with Belarus. Cyber attacks target our critical networks. Acts of sabotage seek to create fear and instability in our societies. 34:39Copy

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    🇱🇾 Libya · Day 2Mohamed Younis Menfi

    • We view the security and stability of the states of the region and all our African neighbors near and far, together with developing Africa, all as investment in the common security of Africa and its European neighborhood. This is not assistance provided by one party to another, nor is it a responsibility borne by one party alone. Likewise, we view the Mediterranean basin not as a barrier between Africa and Europe, but as a shared space for connection. Relations among its countries should move from beyond merely managing migration and crises towards making the Mediterranean a bridge for development, trade, energy transition, investment, and common security. 3:32:52Copy

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    🇲🇱 Mali · Day 6Abdoulaye Diop

    • On the issue of international migration, Mali, which is a country of origin, transit and destination at the same time. Mali therefore reaffirms its attachment to international cooperation and considers human mobility is a benefit for humanity. It is important in this room to say it, to repeat it, that for us, human mobility is not a threat. It is a benefit and all of the countries in this assembly have benefited from migration, even though other aspects need to be managed. 38:33Copy

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    🇲🇪 Montenegro · Day 2Jakov Milatović

    • More than 240,000 lives lost to organized violence, the deadliest toll in three decades. About 120 million people driven from their homes, roughly one in 70. So, are we leaving a better world to the generations after us? Or have we eroded trust in our collective capacity to evade conflicts and confront the challenges that face the world today? 10:03:42Copy

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

    • We call upon all States and international and regional organizations to continue supporting the work of UNRWA, for which there is no substitute, so long as the refugee issue remains unresolved. This requires the continued financial support and political backing, as well as an end to these attacks against UNRWA. We particularly warn also against the implementation of the E1 settlement plan. This plan aims to separate the northern West Bank from its south, isolate East Jerusalem from its Palestinian surroundings, and prevent the realization of a geographically continuous Palestinian state. 1:39:33Copy

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    🇵🇱 Poland · Day 2Karol Nawrocki

    • as well as other related challenges such as illegal migration, which often takes the form of human trafficking. However, an answer to demographic challenges cannot be illegal migration in itself, for it breeds misery, tensions and unrest. This is not the way forward. Ladies and gentlemen, Polish aid embodies global solidarity with those in need. 7:00:00Copy

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    🇲🇩 Republic of Moldova · Day 5Vasile Tofan

    • Moldova could not choose that this war began next to us, but we could choose our response. We welcomed people fleeing the war. We kept transport routes open. We reduced the cost of rail transit for Ukrainian cargo with grain. 1:37:42Copy

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    🇷🇴 Romania · Day 2Nicuşor-Daniel Dan

    • Romania will stand with Ukraine and its people. as they exercise their legitimate right to self-defense for as long as necessary. Moreover, Romania is acting responsibly to stabilize the region. We provided assistance to refugees from Ukraine. 47:45Copy

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    🇸🇹 Sao Tome and Principe · Day 5Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz

    • In a nation of our size, every talent counts, and every young person is an indispensable force for national progress. Likewise, the Santomean diaspora is an essential part of our human wealth and a strategic partner of the country. We will continue to strengthen its ties with Santomean Principi and to create the conditions for an even greater contribution to investment, entrepreneurship, knowledge, transfer, and national life. Mister President, creating opportunities and ensuring truly inclusive development require strong institutions capable of guaranteeing peace, justice, respect for human rights, and the participation of all in the life of the country. 8:22:52Copy

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    🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · Day 1Julius Maada Bio

    • Processing at source, fair value chains, technology transfer, and local industry would turn natural wealth into skilled work, stronger economies, and hope for our young people. The green transition must not reproduce the extractive time of the past. For the youth, this is immediate. A young person without work, opportunity, or a stake in the future becomes vulnerable to the recruiter, the smuggler, and the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. 7:51:58Copy

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    🇿🇦 South Africa · Day 3Ronald Ozzy Lamola

    • We are determined to confront racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and all forms of intolerance through our Constitution, our laws and our institutions. Dealing with the root causes and challenges of irregular migration is a shared responsibility of all countries of the world. We approach our leadership of a regional bloc that is home to a quarter of Africa's population, the Southern African Development Community, with a firm resolve to champion greater regional integration, industrialization, and trade. We want to increase trade amongst our countries so that our citizens can share in the prosperity of our region and our economies are better prepared to absorb the shocks of unilateralism. 12:02:08Copy

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    🇪🇸 Spain · Day 2Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón

    • We have refused to increase our military spending to 5% of GDP, and we've done everything possible to avoid aggressions that run counter to the UN Charter, placing sanctions on the Russian aggressors, imposing an arms embargo on the Netanyahu government in Israel, and prohibiting the use of our territory to deploy an aggression that was against international law, and unequivocally condemning the genocide that Netanyahu is still perpetrating in Gaza. We have also mobilised resources to do more. In the face of the chainsaws that have cut close to a third of world development aid in just two years, Spain has doubled its investment in cooperation and has increased its contribution to the multilateral system by 60%. And we've done this always holding true to our principles, not even in the most difficult times, like the times being experienced by the Spanish city of Ceuta, where inequality, desperation and disinformation has fed one of the most significant to regular migration crisis in recent years I know that in times like this the temptation is to take shortcuts to give in to fear to turn migrants into the enemy and to break the law however my country Spain will not do this and a Spanish city like Ceuta won't do it either because their citizens are showing that we can tackle a crisis without compromising on decency upholding the law and respecting human rights. 11:21:02Copy

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    🇹🇭 Thailand · Day 3Anutin Charnvirakul

    • Today, we are giving displaced persons from Myanmar, who have lived in temporary shelters in Thailand for decades, greater opportunities to work and support their families. For the Rohingya transiting in Thailand, we have adopted a community-based alternative to immigration detention for Rohingya children to better protect their rights and access to services. Our responsibility as a neighbor also means addressing the challenges in our own neighborhood. One of those challenges is the dispute between our country and our neighbor, being Cambodia. 9:15:32Copy

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

    • I wish to say the following to my young people, people that have grown up in a fractured country and which often decided to leave in search of what they couldn't find in our country. I wish to say to them that it is worth believing in the country once more. It is the time to rebuild the country that many wish to return to. We want it to be a country that they want to return to and not just one they want to flee from. 10:41:23Copy

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    🇹🇩 Chad · Day 6Right of reply

    • We also wish to reaffirm that our territory has never been used, nor has our infrastructure been used by any of the parties to the conflict. Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, Chad has itself been the victim of the war in Sudan, as we're feeling the brunt of the consequences, both humanitarian, socioeconomic, but also security consequences. Since April of 2023, over one and a half million Sudanese refugees crossed our eastern border. fleeing a deadly conflict. 8:17:05Copy

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    🇩🇿 Algeria · Day 6Ahmed Attaf

    • Third, Algeria reiterates in this matter that it hosts Sahrawi refugees on its territory and has done so for over half a century because their land is occupied. 1:36:12Copy
    • Because their land is occupied, this occupation cannot be simply summed up in a refugee issue, given the choice to return voluntarily. 1:36:28Copy

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    🇲🇿 Mozambique · Day 2Daniel Francisco Chapo

    • For Mozambique, as one of the countries that is more vulnerable in the world, climate change, they translate into losses in life, displaced families, destroyed crops, and damaged infrastructures cyclically. The cyclones, the 8:59:39Copy

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    🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda · Day 6Walton Alfonso Webson

    • The General Assembly's high-level meeting on sea level rise placed before the international community fundamental questions of statehood, sovereignty, Maritime rights, displacement, culture and identity. 4:48:11Copy

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    🇩🇰 Denmark · Day 6Christina Markus Lassen

    • Millions are displaced. 5:51:13Copy

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    🇲🇼 Malawi · Day 6George Chapatula Chaponda

    • In recent years, devastating cyclones, prolonged droughts, and increasingly erratic weather patterns have destroyed infrastructure, devastated crops, displaced thousands of our citizens, and inflicted severe damage on our economy. 2:16:41Copy

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    🇺🇳 President of the General Assembly (closing) · Day 6Dr. Khalilur Rahman

    • We see the test wherever civilians are dehumanized, wherever minorities face hatred, wherever migrants and refugees are denied dignity, and wherever women and girls are excluded from education, employment, and public life. 7:04:44Copy

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    🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Day 6Vijitha Herath

    • As an island nation situated at the crossroads of the Indian Ocean, and as a country with a large number of migrant workers in West Asia, these developments have direct security, economic and social implications for us. 2:37:44Copy

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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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    🇻🇺 Vanuatu · Day 6Odo Tevi

    • United Nations special procedures have also raised concerns regarding indigenous rights, displacement, cultural rights, environmental impacts, and the treatment of human rights defenders in Papua. 6:31:27Copy

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