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
Kazakhstan · Day 4Mukhtar TileuberdiMr. President, the international security environment continues to deteriorate.
World military expenditures reached a record 2.9 trillion dollars in 2025.
Our small planet is home to more than 12,000 nuclear weapons, each one capable of untold damage and sorrow.
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Marshall Islands · Day 4Hilda HeineWe speak from our own experience when we underscore the importance of acting together.
An institution that takes decisions collectively must also be accountable collectively.
Mr. President, the United Nations is long overdue to reflect and renew the same spirit with which our Marshallese people first came to the United Nation by delivering an apology and acknowledgement of the harm caused by impacts from the 67 nuclear weapons tested on our islands during our time as a UN strategic trust territory between 1946 and 1958.
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Kiribati · Day 4Taneti MaamauKiribati is proud to contribute in our own way to international peace and security through the service of our police officers under the United Nations flag.
For Kiribati, This is an expression of our belief that even the smallest country can contribute to global peace.
For Pacific people, the consequences of nuclear weapons are not merely historical.
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Pakistan · Day 4Muhammad Shehbaz SharifOur brave and valiant armed forces under the courageous leadership of Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, responded with precision and professionalism.
They silenced the enemy, repulsed its attack, and taught it a lesson it shall never, ever forget.
And of course, thanks to President Donald Trump's resolute and visionary leadership, that hundreds of millions of lives in South Asia was saved.
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Monaco · Day 4Christophe MirmandThe people of Lebanon have the right to a fully sovereign state in peace throughout its territory.
In the Persian Gulf, finally, tensions around Iran remain a source of deep concern.
Monaco pays tribute to all the civilian victims of the conflict and reiterates its solidarity with the countries of the Gulf who have been affected by the attacks.
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Lesotho · Day 4Samuel Ntsokoane Matekaneprimary health, medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, and robust disease surveillance and pandemic preparedness.
The social and economic costs of cancer are profound.
With support from the International Atomic Energy Agency, Lesotho is developing its first radiotherapy and nuclear medicine facility.
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Solomon Islands · Day 4Matthew Cooper WaleWe call for stronger international cooperation, greater information sharing, sustained investment in the capacity of our law enforcement agencies, and the support for prevention and rehabilitation.
Our vision of a peaceful and secure Pacific extends beyond transnational crime.
As enshrined in the Ocean of Peace Declaration, our region must remain free of nuclear weapons and free from destabilizing external influence.
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Albania · Day 4Edi RamaNuclear fission changed the meaning of human survival.
Artificial intelligence is changing something even more intimate.
Who can enter the minds of a citizen, imitate a trusted voice, manufacture a reality calibrated to one person's fears, and do so millions and millions of time at once?
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Niger · Day 4Lamine Zeine Ali MahamanOur resources will now be managed by us and for us.
And Niger intends to sell its uranium on the international market in full transparency and in strict compliance with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations.
You will have heard at some point in the past France say that Niger was intending to use this uranium when they left our country they they sabotaged all of the material and Niger has invested some 30 billion of our francs to continue that production totally making use of Nigerian workers and experts not a single foreigner was involved in that The current stock belongs to our country, it does not belong to anyone, and we will sell it to all those who wish to buy, in total transparency, as I have just said.
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Egypt · Day 4Moustafa Kamal Madboulyespecially in translating commitments into financing flows, projects, and technologies that reach the countries and communities most in need.
In a world where geopolitical and technological transformations are accelerating, this must not lead us into more dangerous arms races.
Therefore, Egypt reaffirms its commitment to a balanced system of disarmament and non-proliferation, free from double standards.
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Tonga · Day 4Lord FakafanuaThis year, Tonga ratified United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities, reaffirming our commitment to the dignity and the equal participation of persons with disabilities.
We also acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
In doing so, we completed the universalization of the CTBT in the Pacific.
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Bahrain · Day 4Abdullatif bin Rashid Al ZayaniThe aim is not to hold the technology that no one has the power to hold, but to ensure that its growth is surrounded by safeguards, just as the international community surrounded Nuclear energy with safeguards that preserved its benefits without preventing it.
This technology knows no borders.
A safeguard adopted by a single state is not a safeguard, just as a rule that applies in a single strait is not a rule.
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