Cross-cutting
Migration and refugees at UNGA 81
Raised by 63 of 223 speakers. Read verbatim UN transcript quotes and select a time to hear the speech.
Speeches that raised migration and refugees
Panama · Day 2José Raúl Mulino QuinteroSince 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.
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Syrian Arab Republic · Day 2Ahmad Al-SharaaWe 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.
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Burundi · Day 2Évariste NdayishimiyeIn 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.
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Central African Republic · Day 2Faustin Archange TouaderaThe 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.
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Italy · Day 2Antonio TajaniIt 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.
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Latvia · Day 2Edgars RinkēvičsGuarding 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.
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Romania · Day 2Nicuşor-Daniel DanRomania 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.
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Argentina · Day 2Javier Gerardo MileiThere 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.
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Estonia · Day 2Alar KarisWe 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.
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Libya · Day 2Mohamed Younis MenfiWe 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.
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Cyprus · Day 2Nikos ChristodoulidesCyprus 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.
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Poland · Day 2Karol Nawrockias 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.
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Montenegro · Day 2Jakov MilatovićMore 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?
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Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Day 2Delcy Eloína Rodríguez GómezI 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.
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Spain · Day 2Pedro Sánchez Pérez-CastejónWe 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%.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo · Day 2Judith Suminwa TulukaMr. 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.
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