Migration and refugees at UNGA 81

Speeches that raised migration and refugees

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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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   🇩🇿 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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   🇲🇱 Mali · Day 6Abdoulaye Diop

   • On the issue of international migration, Mali, which is a country of origin, transit and destination at the same time. 38:33Copy
   • Mali therefore reaffirms its attachment to international cooperation and considers human mobility is a benefit for humanity. 38:43Copy
   • It is important in this room to say it, to repeat it, that for us, human mobility is not a threat. 38:53Copy

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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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   🇱🇰 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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   🇦🇬 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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   🇻🇺 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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10. 
    🇺🇳 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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    🇹🇩 Chad · Day 6

    • 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. 8:17:05Copy
    • 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. 8:17:13Copy
    • Since April of 2023, over one and a half million Sudanese refugees crossed our eastern border. 8:17:27Copy

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