Development
SDGs and development financing at UNGA 81
Raised by 132 of 223 speakers. Read verbatim UN transcript quotes and select a time to hear the speech.
Speeches that raised sdgs and development financing
Eswatini · Day 2King Mswati IIIA family can afford food, and a developing nation can access the finance required to build its future.
Trust among nations has eroded on multiple fronts.
Multilateral commitments have too often gone unmet Financing pledges have not yet been fulfilled and developing countries face trillions of dollars in annual investment gaps to achieve the sustainable development goals.
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Dominican Republic · Day 2Luis Rodolfo Abinader CoronaWe've reduced monetary poverty by 25.8% from 25.8% in 2019 to 14.6% in the first six months of this year.
And just two months ago, the FAO confirmed that my country was taken off the hunger map.
being the fifth country in Latin America to achieve this.
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Namibia · Day 2Netumbo Nandi-NdaitwahMr. President, UN system needs constant transformation to be effective.
As we forge ahead with the SDGs, reform of the United international financial architecture is critical to a more equitable and inclusive global economic order.
Such reforms should create greater policy space and access to financing to enable countries to expand their economies through value addition to their natural resources, including critical minerals, for our people to have full benefit of our resources.
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Kenya · Day 2William Samoei RutoIt gave this organization, the United Nations, a duty to prevent conflict, defend peace, and make collective security real.
It also charged it to advance the economic and social well-being of all peoples.
Peace and prosperity were never two mandates.
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Mozambique · Day 2Daniel Francisco ChapoWe also advocate for mutual beneficial economic cooperation based on respect for sovereignty for each state, for the equality between the states and the freedom of choice for the people during the electoral process.
In the area of development, we are still far from fulfilling the promise of the 2030 agenda.
With less than four years until the deadline, millions of people remain deprived of basic opportunities, water, energy, infrastructure, and others.
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Andorra · Day 2Xavier Espot ZamoraWe have increased our contribution to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict.
We have strengthened our support for UNICEF programs and are taking an active part in negotiations of the future Convention on Crimes Against Humanity, with particular attention to the protection of children.
Excellencies, the 2030 Agenda remains the most ambitious collective commitment ever undertaken by the international community.
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Burundi · Day 2Évariste NdayishimiyeWe therefore call for stronger international mobilization in favor of universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation, particularly in rural areas and in the most vulnerable communities.
We invite our partners to view water not merely as a natural resource, but as a strategic investment in peace, health and sustainable development.
Excellencies.
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Paraguay · Day 2Santiago Peña PalaciosToday, Paraguay is experiencing one of the finest economic periods in its history.
and it has become an example to other countries of macroeconomic stability, sustained growth and poverty reduction.
As a result of this, in December 2025, Standard & Poor's awarded us our second investment grade rating, making Paraguay the first country in more than a decade to achieve that distinction.
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Botswana · Day 2Duma Gideon BokoBut what is a demographic dividend today can become a demographic crisis tomorrow if opportunity does not keep pace with aspiration.
Youth unemployment remains one of the most urgent challenges of our time.
Managing it is a shared responsibility.
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Ecuador · Day 2Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa AzinAnd today we are experiencing a crisis, a profound crisis, and recovering security means giving people about their future for a young person to be able to choose university rather than being trapped by a criminal gang for a family to open a business without fear for a company to invest and create jobs and for institutions to respond to the needs of citizens and not to elicit interests therefore the success of an economy is not measured only by how much production grows but rather how much is able to reduce poverty is measured in young people with decent jobs and children with a better education, and citizens who are able to build their future with dignity.
This must also guide the agenda of international development.
Middle-income countries face vulnerabilities that income per capita does not reflect.
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Ethiopia · Day 2Taye Atske-Selassie AmdeMr. President, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for placing before us the defining imperatives of our era, namely artificial intelligence, the climate crisis, and deepening global inequalities.
These are not only policy choices, they are the pivots upon which human destiny is determined.
The United Nations has achieved remarkable victories against extreme poverty, but it has never been enough.
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Uganda · Day 2Jessica Rose Epel AlupoIn this regard, we demand Africa's rightful representation in both the permanent and non-permanent categories to correct historical imbalances in line with the common African position articulated in the Eswatini Consensus and the Sauti Declaration.
Regarding the ongoing UN Aid Initiative, Uganda commends efforts to streamline the UN system to make it cost-effective, efficient and well-coordinated.
However, these reform processes must not dilute agreed UN mandates, commitments and programmes, nor should they impede the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
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Spain · Day 2Pedro Sánchez Pérez-CastejónIn 2018, the 193 countries that make up this body had just adopted the 2030 agenda and the majority of the leaders present here proudly showed off the SDGs logo.
And we didn't do this because it was fashionable, nor because we thought that it would be an easy journey.
We did it because the majority of us believed in this common promise, because we were convinced that peace, sustainability, equal opportunities were not ideological positions, but rather a comprehensive part of the future of humanity.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo · Day 2Judith Suminwa TulukaThe climate crisis is also a water crisis.
Following the African Water Forum held in Djamena in July, the DRC has proposed the creation of an African Coalition for Water Security, which aims to strengthen regional cooperation and mobilizing the financing needed to make water a driver of development and for the prevention of tensions.
Mr. President, these transformations require considerable resources four years from the 2030 deadline.
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Uzbekistan · Day 2Saida Mirziyoyevathey must be given hope and confidence to achieve a peaceful life.
Dear friends, the reforms being implemented by the head of Uzbekistan are primarily based on the criterion of whether people's lives are improving.
We measure the results by this very criterion.
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Cyprus · Day 2Nikos ChristodoulidesThe UN80 initiative is an important part of this effort.
The Pact for the Future and the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals are also part of the effort to ensure that multilateral cooperation can respond to the needs of our time.
This moment of reform also comes as the UN Secretary-General approaches the completion of a decade leading this organization.
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Bulgaria · Day 2Iliana IotovaWe have inequalities that are deepening every minute throughout the world.
Bulgaria supports international efforts toward this end.
from guaranteeing the right of each child to education to the consistent implementation of the women, peace and security agenda.
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Central African Republic · Day 2Faustin Archange TouaderaThe trap is an insidious one.
A fragile country needs security to develop.
It needs development for stability.
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Poland · Day 2Karol NawrockiWe are actively participating in preparations for this event, which will take place in Miami this December.
At the same time, we must be aware that sustainable economic development and international stability are not possible without addressing the structural challenges that affect many regions of the world today.
One of these is the demographic crisis.
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Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Day 2Delcy Eloína Rodríguez GómezVenezuela, who today knows exactly what it is to lift its children from the rubble, extend its solidarity, indeed its wholehearted solidarity, to all peoples suffering from war.
We reaffirm in the most unambiguous terms here that peace, a just, lasting peace, underpinned by dignity for all parties is not a naive ambition.
Rather, it is the only truly humane solution to conflict.
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Rwanda · Day 2Justin NsengiyumvaRwanda calls on all actors, including the Security Council, to support this same peace effort fairly and to encourage all parties to honor their commitments.
There is no lasting peace without confronting the root causes of the conflict and addressing the legitimate concerns of all those affected.
Excellencies, the value of prevention extends beyond conflicts.
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