Disarmament
Nuclear weapons and disarmament at UNGA 81
Raised by 62 of 223 speakers. Read verbatim UN transcript quotes and select a time to hear the speech.
Speeches that raised nuclear weapons and disarmament
Austria · Day 3Beate Meinl-ReisingerHistory says otherwise.
Imagine this hall in December 1953.
Austria was still occupied while the superpowers were testing hydrogen bombs.
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Israel · Day 3Benjamin NetanyahuI vowed to prevent Iran's murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs, nuclear weapons aimed at destroying Israel, nuclear weapons that could threaten the entire world.
That's exactly what we did.
Now, let me say something that might surprise you.
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Greece · Day 3Kyriakos MitsotakisIn the 1940s and the 1950s, the American government heavily regulated another technology so powerful that its creators believed it could bring about either a golden age in human flourishing or the end of the world.
That technology was nuclear.
The same needs to happen now, and it needs to happen fast.
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Australia · Day 3Anthony AlbaneseThe pioneers who built this institution from the ruins of war proud Australians among them, were also coming to terms with two terrible truths: the horrors of the Holocaust and the unprecedented horror of nuclear weapons.
A depth of evil and a scale of destruction beyond imagining even a decade earlier.
Yet rather than recoil from that reality, our leaders stood together to face it.
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Zimbabwe · Day 3Emmerson Dambudzo MnangagwaThis has seen us dispatch the first export of locally produced lithium sulphate during the second quarter of the year, demonstrating that retaining value at the source is possible for shared prosperity.
Harnessing emerging technologies for national development is a key priority for our industrialization agenda.
Zimbabwe's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2026-2030 promotes human-centered, ethical, and responsible innovation.
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Guyana · Day 3Mohamed Irfaan Aliand within every uncertainty, the possibility of shaping a better future.
The possibility before us are immense.
We have the possibility of silencing the guns through dialogue and diplomacy.
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European Union · Day 3António CostaBecause the best argument for multilateralism is what it delivers on peace and security with the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, on climate action with the Paris Agreement, on poverty and health with the global response to COVID-19.
The truth is, when we act together, multilateralism delivers for people.
And this is why this week, the United Union, the European Union has launched together with Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, India, and Kenya, the P4M, Partners for Multilateralism, International Law, Peace, and Prosperity.
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Senegal · Day 3Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar FayeIt is high time to act to halt the horror of mass murder and destruction.
No country No peace, no security can be viable, nor can it last without the two-state solution, Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital and Israel, the two living side by side within safe and internationally recognized borders.
In a situation of ongoing conflict which favors an arms race, which erodes disarmament mechanisms and fuels risk linked to new technologies.
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Fiji · Day 3Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati LalabalavuDialogue is worth pursuing.
And peace, however difficult, is always worth building.
Mr. President, the Pacific knows the cost of militarization and nuclear testing.
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Bangladesh · Day 3Tarique RahmanBangladesh sees the United Nations as the centerpiece for establishing an accommodative global community based on mutual respect for one another's independence and sovereignty.
The tendency to divert development budgets towards military expenditure in different parts of the world reverses the direction of our journey towards global peace.
As a peace-loving nation, Bangladesh remains committed to the goals of complete and general disarmament, preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and arms control.
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South Africa · Day 3Ronald Ozzy LamolaTo restore respect for international law, we must protect those who deliver humanitarian assistance.
That is why South Africa endorses the Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel, supported by nearly 120 states, from all regions of the world.
Mr. President, 80 years ago, the first resolution of the General Assembly called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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