Peace and security
Other conflicts and crises at UNGA 81
Raised by 112 of 223 speakers. Read verbatim UN transcript quotes and select a time to hear the speech.
Speeches that raised other conflicts and crises
Yemen · Day 3Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-BawzerHer Majesties, Excellencies, Highnesses, distinguished delegates, Mr. President of the General Assembly, Mr. Secretary-General, ladies and gentlemen.
12 years could be in politics a mere temporal span, the length of a protracted crisis.
But for a Yemeni child, 12 years are his entire childhood.
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Armenia · Day 3Nikol PashinyanThank you.
Honorable presidents of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, The peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, established on August 8, 2025, with the support and personal engagement of U.S.
President Donald Trump, has opened up new opportunities for our region, the South Caucasus.
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Israel · Day 3Benjamin NetanyahuIn fact, I want you to know that many of their leaders even thank us privately for taking out Iran's nukes.
It's hard to imagine more mind-blowing hypocrisy, but that's exactly what it is.
Now, this isn't the first time we are faced with a threat of annihilation.
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Gambia (Republic of The) · Day 3Mohammed JallowIf diplomacy can bring countries together to find common ground on difficult questions on global development, then surely we can summon the same political courage to prevent conflicts, resolve wars, and build lasting peace.
The Gambia speaks on this not merely from principle, but from experience.
In 2017, our country stood at a moment of acute constitutional uncertainty.
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Kuwait · Day 3Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabahin addition to seizing support for proxies and militias and addressing the security concerns of all countries in the region, including the Iranian nuclear file, ballistic missiles and drones, while stressing the guarantee of freedom and safety of navigation and the right of passage through the Straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb in accordance with the international law and the 1982 UN Convention on Law of the Sea.
Mr. President, the state of Kuwait is committed in its foreign policy to the principles of the UN Charter, in particular, respect for the principle of good neighborliness, respect for state sovereignty, and the non-interference in internal affairs.
Accordingly, the state of Kuwait views the brotherly Republic of Iraq as a neighbor with whom we share close ties and are partners in security and stability since the fall of the former regime.
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Greece · Day 3Kyriakos MitsotakisWe 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.
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Comoros · Day 3Azali AssoumaniLet us continue in a spirit of teamwork and draw strength from solidarity.
If we smile together, it is not because we have no problems, but because we are stronger than our problems."
Ladies and gentlemen, for half a century, the Comorian state, still striving for full sovereignty within its internationally recognized borders, remains under what it considers an illegal French occupation, despite the many relevant resolutions of this Assembly.
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Thailand · Day 3Anutin CharnvirakulAnd through our solar rooftop policy, we are also creating greater economic opportunities for households by allowing them to sell excess electricity back to the grid.
However, this responsibility goes beyond development.
Thailand's humanitarian tradition demonstrates this conviction.
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Slovenia · Day 3Janez JanšaOr consider Nigeria.
For more than a decade, Nigerian communities have faced mass killings, kidnappings, the destruction of villages and places of worship, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
In return, this body produced a single Security Council resolution.
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Somalia · Day 3Hassan Sheikh MohamudSomalia also continues to confront international terrorism with determination and with the support of our international partners.
We are strengthening our national security, our national security institutions, improving first generation, developing intelligence capabilities, and expanding security cooperation with our neighbors and the rest of the world.
But the fight against terrorism in Somalia must not be understood as a Somalia's responsibility alone.
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Barbados · Day 3Mia Amor MottleyAt the same time, we have to give thanks where thanks is due.
And there are member states who have contributed in whatever way to help in Haiti find its path.
This includes, of course, the Caribbean Communities Eminent Persons Group, which has been helping to build consensus and maintain engagement with key international partners in the last few years.
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Georgia · Day 3Irakli KobakhidzheTwenty 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.
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Ireland · Day 3Micheál MartinThe situation in Afghanistan is one of the clearest examples of this.
The systematic exclusion of women and girls from education, employment and public life is not something that the international community can simply observe from a distance.
It is a profound human rights crisis.
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Liberia · Day 3Joseph Nyuma BoakaiThe cause of preventing war places comprising the cause of building broken society.
As a current member of the United Nations Security Council, Liberia is putting these principles into practice while confronting evolving threats across West Africa, including transnational organized crime, cyber war, and illicit according trafficking along maritime corridors in the Gulf of Guinea.
Through our joint security forces, we are tightening the vise on transnational drug cartels.
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Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Day 3Rodrigo Paz PereiraIt's quite another thing to have governability, which we do now have because the parliament is now drafting and approving laws.
And governance is yet another thing.
Governance, governability and governance are not the same things.
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Hungary · Day 3András Bálint BakaFor Hungarians, the reasons are part of our own history.
Seventy years ago, The revolution of 1956 expressed our people's determination to govern themselves.
Soviet tanks crushed that hope.
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Uruguay · Day 3Yamandú OrsiWhen a people is displaced, when a family loses its home, when young people can see no way out and their mental health is under threat, When a child grows up under the sound of gunfire, when millions of people live in poverty or without any opportunities, we can't stand indifferent to that.
Nor can we stand indifferent to the pain caused by a state of endless war, the fear and pain generated by organized crime or the constant threat of terrorism, the repression born out of tyranny or the suffering triggered by a rigid economic blockade such as that endured by the Cuban people.
We don't believe that taking one side or another in a war, confrontation or dispute necessarily contributes to resolving it.
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Equatorial Guinea · Day 3Teodoro Nguema Obiang MangueMr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Respect for international law, sovereign equality, and friendship with all peoples is what guides Equatorial Guinea's foreign policy.
Based on that position, we encourage the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba to continue to pursue paths of dialogue which will make it possible to end the blockade and build a relationship of mutual benefit.
Moreover, we see the United Nations as a universal space for pursuing solutions to shared problems.
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Colombia · Day 3José Manuel RestrepoIn a matter of seconds, homes, hospitals, schools, roads and bridges had been totally destroyed or severely damaged.
The Colombian Geological Service confirmed that this was the strongest magnitude earthquake recorded in Colombia so far this century.
Hundreds of Colombians lost their lives.
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Portugal · Day 3Luís MontenegroWe all have a duty to learn from the lessons of the crisis of the 1970s and avoid repeating what happened then.
We will be judged by how we handle this challenge.
On the one hand, It is urgent to put an end to the productive conflicts.
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Nigeria · Day 3Kashim ShettimaOur abundant natural resources must become engines of shared prosperity rather than sources of perpetual dependency.
Mr. President, no nation, however formidable its defenses, can secure itself completely against dangers sustained beyond its borders.
Terrorism, organized crime, cyber attacks, and illicit finance exploiting gaps between our national responses, drawing strength from the divisions that weaken collective action.
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Nepal · Day 3Balendra ShahMr. President, Mr. Secretary General, Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, I come before you from Nepal, a distant country in the Himalayas, carrying a close warning for humanity.
I wish I could stand here today simply to talk about development, democracy, peace, and the hopes of a young nation.
Instead, I must speak about death and destruction of epic proportion, about families waiting for loved ones who will never come home, about communities searching through the mud, rocks, water for the people who are lost, may never be recovered, about bridges, about roads, schools, homes, livelihood, swept away in minutes, about a country whose steady progress to achieve sustainable development goals has been interrupted.
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South Africa · Day 3Ronald Ozzy LamolaThe suffering of the Cuban people should command our deepest solidarity.
We reiterate our call for an end to the blockade on the Cuban people.
The designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism is similarly unfounded and should be removed from that list.
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