Sovereignty and non-interference at UNGA 81

Statements that raised Sovereignty and non-interference

1. 
   🇲🇻 Maldives · Day 4Hussain Mohamed Latheef

   • This small state can be highly vulnerable to external threats and acts of influence. In response, this Assembly adopted resolution 44/51, an initiative led by the Maldives, affirming the importance of protecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of small states. That was true then, and it is true even today. But the threats have evolved. 44:01Copy

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   🇫🇷 France · Day 1Emmanuel Macron

   • The question is, do we want to live Under this state of affairs, with a return to the law of the jungle, or do we want to live in a civilized international society? Our duty, today more than ever, is to hold firm here at the United Nations in order to make decisions to further our common interests so that people can choose their fate freely their development model, choose their future, to refuse their sovereignty being taken hostage by unjust forces, by fear. Therefore, the very raison d'etre of this organization is to bring together free people on an even footing, an equal footing. It is our charter that prevents the power wielded by some from making decisions for others. 5:40:03Copy

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   🇱🇾 Libya · Day 2Mohamed Younis Menfi

   • Its repercussions have extended to the Arabian Gulf, most recently in the attack against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We affirm our full solidarity with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in safeguarding its security, its territorial integrity, its citizens, and its holy sites. We reject any targeting that threatens it or endangers Islamic holy sites. The security of the Kingdom and the Gulf, given their Arab and Islamic weight, is not a national matter, but it is a pillar of the security and stability of our region. 3:30:27Copy

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   🇳🇪 Niger · Day 4Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman

   • They want to make us believe that we are incapable of governing, of governing ourselves, incapable of producing, of thinking, and of defending ourselves. They want to make us believe and convince us that we do not have the science, the intelligence or the sovereignty needed to build something precious by and for ourselves, and that as a consequence, therefore, we should accept the tutelage of Emmanuel Macron's France and his allies. A France which very often acts through its local proxies, networks and complicity. For centuries, they have instilled self-deprecation, fear, and resignation. 6:01:03Copy

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   🇦🇱 Albania · Day 4Edi Rama

   • We did not do this to transfer sovereignty from people to a machine. We did it to make public services more accessible, procedures more transparent, and the state more accountable. No machine possesses democratic legitimacy. No algorithm inherits constitutional responsibility. 4:48:15Copy

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   🇧🇸 Bahamas (the) · Day 4Philip Edward Davis

   • Its ideals have proven its worth. No nation is too small to be sovereign, no people too poor to be equal, and the strong should be bound by the same law as the weak. Sad to say, United Nations has drifted from its promise. The Bahamas comes today to insist on it. 6:25:52Copy

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   🇲🇩 Republic of Moldova · Day 5Vasile Tofan

   • But inequality of power must never become inequality of sovereignty. Countries are not buffers. Nations are not bargaining chips. Safety is not abstract to me. 1:33:58Copy

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   🇦🇷 Argentina · Day 2Javier Gerardo Milei

   • I also wish to reiterate our position regarding the population of the islands. As this very assembly has determined in numerous resolutions, the principle of self-determination does not apply in this case since the population was implanted by the occupying power on a territory whose sovereignty is in dispute. That principle exists to liberate colonized people, not to legitimize situations arising from colonization. If the United Kingdom maintains a selective interpretation of the principle of self-determination with regard to the Malvinas Islands, it must also explain it reconciles that position with the debates on self-determination taking place within its own territory. 2:26:15Copy

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   🇷🇸 Serbia · Day 2Aleksandar Vučić

   • You will not believe it. They told us that they had attacked a sovereign, free and independent country in order to prevent a potential humanitarian disaster. The humanitarian disaster did not occur, and I have still not managed to hear or see where a similar example has occurred anywhere in the world. The attack against the small yet free and freedom-loving country Serbia, of which I am the proud President, was carried out with the intention of finally destroying the UN order established after the world World War II and formally and informally confirming the dominance of at that time unison Western world of United States of America and Europe. 8:25:44Copy

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    🇪🇬 Egypt · Day 4Moustafa Kamal Madbouly

    • Believing that stability can be achieved in the region while ignoring the suffering of the Palestinian people and merely managing the occupation rather than ending it is nothing but illusion. The goal remains unequivocally clear: the establishment of an independent, sovereign, and territorially contiguous Palestinian state, state on the lines of. the 4th of June 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, within the framework of the two-state solution and in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions. This requires preserving the unity of the Palestinian territory and the Palestinian political system, enabling the Palestinian people to manage their own affairs and build their state, and ensuring that the international community fulfills its responsibility to protect civilians, reject collective punishment, and guarantee respect international humanitarian law. 7:45:18Copy

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    🇱🇧 Lebanon · Day 4Nawaf Salam

    • The third was to recover all of its territory from Israeli occupation and to extend its sovereignty over the entirety of its national soil through its own forces in implementation of the Taif Agreement and in sincere respect for the relevant international resolutions on Lebanon. Foremost among these is Resolution 1701, which remains to this day a fundamental point of reference governing relations between Lebanon and Israel. Trust rebuilt, decision-making reclaimed, land liberated, that is the equation for Lebanon's recovery. These are not three separate challenges. 1:27:31Copy

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    🇲🇱 Mali · Day 6Abdoulaye Diop

    • because beyond encouraging reflection on how our organization can regain credibility and effectiveness amid multiple crises and challenges to multilateralism, it especially calls on member states to restore trust and seek common solutions to the many challenges of our time. And how can this be achieved? For its part, Mali reaffirms its unwavering commitment to reformed multilateralism founded on strict respect for the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, particularly sovereign equality, territorial integrity, non-use of force, mutual respect, and non-interference in the internal affairs of a state. The Further we move away from these principles, the closer we come to cycles of conflict. 18:53Copy

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    🇸🇲 San Marino · Day 5Luca Beccari

    • Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, San Marino is the world's oldest republic. For more than 17 centuries, we have survived not through military power, territorial expansion, economic might, but through dialogue, respect for the law, neutrality, and the conviction that sovereignty of a small state is no less valuable than that of a great power. Our history has taught a simple lesson. When power is not enough to protect you, rule matter. 6:24:07Copy

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14. 
    🇺🇦 Ukraine · Day 2Volodymyr Zelenskyy

    • Ladies and gentlemen, for almost five years now, Russian generals have been trying to carry out Putin's crazy order to seize our eastern land, the Donetsk region. And just this year, from January through August, the Russian army lost 248,964 people on the battlefield in Ukraine in eight months. 248,000 killed and badly wounded. 21 centuries in the world have smaller populations 21 countries in the world have smaller population than the number of Russian troops lost in the just eight months. 5:08:41Copy

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    🇻🇪 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Day 2Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez

    • Venezuela wishes to breathe freely, exercise its rights as a sovereign nation without any type of interference. Venezuela must be admired and respected. I come here and will do justice going forward. That is, I will assume a historic responsibility. 10:40:24Copy

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    🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo · Day 2Judith Suminwa Tuluka

    • have never ceased to believe in the need for international cooperation, a cooperation which, at the most difficult times, can be promptly mobilized, but in other circumstances may seem to drag its feet, when territorial integrity is vigorously defended in one crisis but seems negotiable in another, when the suffering of civilians calls for immediate action in one place but seems less urgent in another. In reality, there can be no lasting trust when the force of our principles varies depending on the people's crises or circumstances. In a world in constant flux, the trust of our peoples in multilateralism begins when the law is applied uniformly, regardless of geography, economic power, or alliances. Our transformation ought to be based upon the need to uphold the Charter in its entirety, especially through the respect for the principle of the sovereign equality of States, peaceful dispute settlement, the prohibition of the use of force, respect for territorial integrity, and human dignity. 11:45:35Copy

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    🇳🇷 Naoero · Day 1David Ranibok Adeang

    • Mr. President, small states are increasingly asked to choose between partners, between blocs, between competing visions of the world. Nairobi will not be made to choose. We will work with every partner who respects our sovereignty and our right to decide our own future. That is not neutrality. 9:23:04Copy

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    🇵🇱 Poland · Day 2Karol Nawrocki

    • Poland is particularly aware of the consequences of Russian colonialism and imperialism. History has taught us that freedom and sovereignty cannot defend themselves. That is why we are determined to counter the threats that the Kremlin's aggressive policies are posing to us with increasing audacity. As a representative of a country neighboring Russia, I want to make it clear we are not the ones seeking confrontation. 6:48:54Copy

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    🇹🇴 Tonga · Day 4Lord Fakafanua

    • Under King George I, Tonga preserved its independence during an era of colonial expansion. Our constitution of 1875 secured Tongans' rights and freedoms over seven decades before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It reflects our fierce determination to chart our own course. That is the essence of our sovereignty. 8:24:49Copy

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    🇺🇸 United States of America · Day 1Donald Trump

    • We did do it, but we don't do that anymore. It is deeply ironic that the United Nations has an entire institution, the UNESCO group of people and countries, devoted to protecting cultural heritage. Yet, with their ceaseless promotion of mass migration, these globalists are actively destroying the greatest cultures and most extraordinary heritage in all of history. There is no human right to illegal immigration, but there is a right to remain a sovereign nation. 2:17:53Copy

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    🇨🇺 Cuba · Day 5Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla

    • This aggression is being accompanied by a brutal media and cognitive warfare aimed not just against the Cuban people, but also against the citizens of the United States and international public opinion. It is characterized by its gross and brazen attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of Cuba, which is also another international crime. We are often asked, well, what is the US pursuing with such aggressive behavior? And the question usually surprises us because the representatives of this government have outrightly declared their purpose to take Cuba, to control the country, and to dominate its economy. 3:00:21Copy

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    🇰🇼 Kuwait · Day 3Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah

    • demanding its cessation and affirming the inherent rights of states to self-defense as per Article 51 of the UN Charter. They have also stressed the importance of guaranteeing freedom of navigation without restrictions or conditions. And based on Kuwait's belief that the security and stability of the Arabian Gulf region constitutes a fundamental pillar of regional and international security and stability, as demonstrated by the repercussions of the war and Iranian aggressions, we reiterate the support for all diplomatic efforts aimed at de-escalation and a peaceful resolution to the existing dispute. And we applaud the mediation efforts led by Qatar and Pakistan, while emphasizing the need to reach a sustainable regional understanding based on a firm commitment to the principles of good neighborliness, respect for state sovereignty, and the non-interference in internal affairs, as well as refraining from the use or threat of use of force. 7:55:14Copy

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    🇱🇻 Latvia · Day 2Edgars Rinkēvičs

    • And we already have it, the United Nations Charter and its principles. sovereignty, territorial integrity, the peaceful settlement of disputes, respect for human rights, the rejection of aggression. These principles were not written for an easy world. Quite the opposite. 29:55Copy

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    🇶🇦 Qatar · Day 1Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

    • It is the cumulative result of years of postponing crisis management through temporary solutions and unrealistic policies. Our perspective has always been that the way to resolve disputes is through dialogue and negotiations to reach just fair solutions grounded in international law, grounded in respect for the sovereignty of states and the rights of peoples. This remains our position in the aftermath of the wars we've been witnessing. The state of Qatar, through its role as a trusted mediator and peace facilitators, has consistently warned that time does not resolve lingering conflicts in the absence of a just settlement, rather it doubles their costs. 3:52:05Copy

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    🇭🇳 Honduras · Day 2Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah

    • Today, the global economy is facing an energy crisis resulting from the high prices of oil. That crisis is having a direct impact on our people. This is the only forum in which the voice of a country of 11 million inhabitants is heard. Honduras exercises sovereignty over the full extent of its national territory. 9:48:43Copy

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    🇧🇪 Belgium · Day 1Maxime Prévot

    • It also protects our interests. This is why Belgium stands firmly with Ukraine. Any lasting peace must be grounded in the Charter of the United Nations and in respect for Ukraine's sovereignty, political independence, and territorial integrity. But we cannot uphold these principles on my continent alone, in Europe, and treat them as optional elsewhere. 11:45:05Copy

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    🇧🇷 Brazil · Day 1Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva

    • It approves a more accurate representation of the world map. Now it needs to focus on issues crucial for the future of humanity. We are called to choose between multilateralism or unilateralism, democracy or extremism, sovereignty or subordination. These choices require courage, political will, and clarity of objectives. 1:24:34Copy

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    🇫🇯 Fiji · Day 3Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu

    • For small states, the principles of the charter, sovereign equality, territorial integrity, and the peaceful settlement of disputes are the safeguards against a world in which the size of military strength decides whose rights matters. When the world asks small states to choose between competing power blocks, Fiji chooses principles. And we choose the charter. We choose the international law. 6:36:33Copy

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    🇬🇳 Guinea · Day 2Mamadi Doumbouya

    • This is not reflective of a rejection of the world nor rejection of international cooperation. Quite to the contrary, this is a call for win-win partnership, partnership that is respectful of the sovereignty of each nation, rooted in win-win collaboration rather than pre-established arrangements which disregard our realities. The Republic of Guinea, for our part, is and shall remain a reliable, open, engaged partner, open, reliable, and engaged vis-a-vis the international community. while engaging in mutual respect for the sovereignty of one and all. 9:16:51Copy

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    🇲🇷 Mauritania · Day 4Mohamed Salem Merzoug

    • Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen. the Islamic Republic of Mauritania renews its commitment to the principles and purposes of the UN Charter and the norms of international law, as well as the resolutions of international legitimacy. Our foreign policy is based on good neighborliness, the respect of states' sovereignty, independence and the non-interference in their internal affairs as well as the peaceful settlement of disputes and ensuring the just causes. Proceeding from such principles, my country under the leadership of his excellency, the president of the state, Muhammad Wildraswani, continue to build a modern state that is coexistent in synergy with its neighbors and open to the entire world. 10:32:22Copy

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    🇲🇽 Mexico · Day 4Roberto Velasco Álvarez

    • One, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity. 2. Shared but differentiated responsibility 3. Mutual respect and trust 4. Cooperation without subordination This milestone was not achieved through war, nor by renouncing human rights or through reliance on force as the sole response. 10:55:20Copy

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32. 
    🇵🇼 Palau · Day 2Surangel Whipps

    • I stand before this assembly for a people whose future depends on a healthy ocean and a stable climate, and the sovereign right to determine their own path. For us, sovereignty is lived in our ability to feed our people from healthy oceans, power our homes independently from distant fuel markets, and protect our shorelines from rising seas and chart our own path. It is a responsibility that grows more urgent each day, especially as UNEP's latest findings make clear that the world is now certain to exceed 1.5. This reality must strengthen our resolve to deliver what we have promised, prepare our communities, for the impacts science tells us are inevitable. 3:48:22Copy

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    🇷🇺 Russian Federation · Day 5Sergey Lavrov

    • Mr. President, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, over the last few days, Over the last week, from the rostrum and in the corridors of the General Assembly, the following idea was heard many times: There are tectonic shifts underway in global politics. A fairer, multipolar world order is emerging before our very eyes. The countries of the global South and East are asserting themselves as sovereign centers of development. They're taking responsibility for ensuring security in their own regions. 3:12:05Copy

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    🇺🇾 Uruguay · Day 3Yamandú Orsi

    • No one is better than anyone else. No country holds the absolute truth. No nation has a monopoly on their solutions. No society can claim that its historical experience is universal. 3:53:04Copy

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    🇵🇸 Palestine (State of) · Day 3Mahmoud Abbas

    • We have our own national project, protecting our people from displacement, preserving our land and its unity, democratically renewing our institutions, and building our state while remaining committed to international law and exercising our right to self-determination, leading to the realization of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, along with the return of refugees in accordance with UN Resolution 194. We do not want a new process for managing the conflict while the face of the land changes every day. We want a process that puts an end to occupation and guarantees freedom and self-determination for Palestinians. A process that guarantees also security and peace for Israelis and the countries of the region. 1:47:43Copy

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    🇦🇲 Armenia · Day 3Nikol Pashinyan

    • Accordingly, Armenia will initially have a 26 percent stake in the trip development company and the United States will have a 74% stake. The agreement provides that in the event of its extension in the 50th year, the Republic of Armenia's share will become 49% without additional investment. One of the practical expressions of the trip project will be the implementation of paragraph 3 of the peace declaration adopted by me and the president of Azerbaijan on August 8, 2025, and signed by the United States president as a witness. Paragraph 3 of that declaration reads, quote, "We reaffirmed the importance of the opening of communications between the two countries," meaning Armenia and Azerbaijan, for intrastate, bilateral, and international transportation for the promotion of peace, stability, and prosperity in the region and its neighborhood on the basis of respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the jurisdiction of states. 8:49:16Copy

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    🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Day 4Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov

    • Through inclusive multilateralism, all states, large or small, particularly developing countries, must have the opportunity to participate equally in global decision-making. In this context, reform of the UN Security is essential to make it more representative, effective and responsive. Ladies and gentlemen, Restoring global trust begins first and foremost with respecting international law, sovereign equality, and peaceful coexistence. It is exactly these principles that are guiding our efforts for peace and stability in the South Caucasus. 9:51:15Copy

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    🇧🇳 Brunei Darussalam · Day 5Prince 'Abdul Mateen

    • Dialogue becomes harder, multilateral institutions lose authority, the international order becomes more fragile, leaving smaller and more vulnerable states particularly exposed. For Brunei Darussalam, multilateralism is not an intellectual concept. It is the assurance that sovereignty and territorial integrity will be respected, that every nation, irrespective of size, has a voice, and that international law protects the weak as surely as it restrains the strong. The Charter of the United Nations must therefore remain our common foundation. 3:29:54Copy

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    🇧🇮 Burundi · Day 2Évariste Ndayishimiye

    • The Human Rights Council cannot be instrumentalized by other countries to the detriment of others, given that all member states of the United Nations enjoy a status of sovereign equality. Burundi wishes to reiterate once again its opposition to the imposition of a special rapporteur in the situation of human rights in Burundi, who was appointed without any prior dialogue or consultation. Burundi is a responsible country that respects human rights. has fought impunity for decades. 1:05:12Copy

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    🇨🇦 Canada · Day 5Anita Anand

    • We are facing a rupture, not a transition. Great powers are walking away from global economic cooperation, dismantling economic integration. Great powers want the rest of us to accept what we are offered. And too often, state sovereignty, the cornerstone of the UN Charter, has been treated with disdain. 7:36:58Copy

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    🇨🇴 Colombia · Day 3José Manuel Restrepo

    • Allow me to begin by clarifying what I mean by that. I'm not talking about international trade or cooperation among states, nor am I talking about a humanity that shares common problems and responsibilities. All of those things are absolutely necessary. I'm talking about a concept according to which nation, sovereignty, distinct identities, traditions, and the values of peoples are obstacles that gradually give way to increasing political and cultural uniformity decided by supranational bodies. 5:07:59Copy

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    🇨🇾 Cyprus · Day 2Nikos Christodoulides

    • For small-sized countries, the principle of equality of states is fundamental, and it has formed the binding trust between us. We rely on an international system in which sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected. We expect international law, including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, to be applied consistently. We believe in the peaceful resolution of disputes, and we demand that the rights of every state be protected. 4:07:11Copy

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    🇭🇺 Hungary · Day 3András Bálint Baka

    • We affirm Ukraine's right to self-defense its sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders, and the right of its people to decide their own future. The freedom Hungarians demanded for themselves in 1956 is a freedom we must uphold for Ukrainians today. We remember those who have lost their lives in this war, and we want diplomacy to bring the killing to an end. But a lasting peace must respect Ukraine's sovereignty. 3:40:03Copy

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    🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Day 1Sadyr Zhaparov

    • Starting from the 1st January 2027, as a member of the United Nations Security Council, we intend to formally submit all these proposals to the relevant committee. Distinguished colleagues, I would like to address separately the issues of sanctions. As we have all observed, today's sanctions are in some cases used by individual countries as an instrument to interference to the international affairs of sovereign states. The negative consequences of unjustified unilateral sanctions also affect small countries such as ours, which are at the stage of formation and development. 3:38:35Copy

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    🇲🇬 Madagascar · Day 3Michaël Randrianirina

    • This idea is not ideological, but is based on international partnership that can meet the aspirations of our people in an open spirit, without exclusivity, in full respect for national sovereignty. The achievement of our ambitions cannot be separated from the international context in which they are pursued. Excellencies, Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, can we speak of development when international peace and security are being tested by multiplying crises around the world and persistent tensions? Restoring trust requires the United Nations to maintain and to restore peace. 45:41Copy

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    🇲🇨 Monaco · Day 4Christophe Mirmand

    • Mr. President of the General Assembly, Secretary-General, Heads of State, Heads of Government, Delegates, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am addressing you as the representative of the smallest Member State of this Organization in terms of its land mass and one of the smallest in terms of its population, barely two squared kilometers bordering the Mediterranean. And yet, in this forum, there are no small or large states. Here, every one of the 193 members has a voice, one alone, and of the same weight. Here, the Charter only recognizes states equal in sovereignty, equal in rights, but also, and I wish to stress this point, equal in terms of responsibility. 1:44:09Copy

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    🇳🇴 Norway · Day 4Espen Barth Eide

    • It's a normative crisis. is a financial crisis and an institutional crisis. First, the normative crisis. The fundamental rules that protect the integrity of sovereign state and prohibit the use of force except in self-defense are threatened. 11:43:22Copy

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    🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea · Day 4James Marape

    • No nation can address them alone. We must therefore continue to work together, respecting the sovereignty of all nations upholding the international law and the United Nations Charter, resolving our differences peacefully, and recognizing that every nation, regardless of its size or economic strength or military might, has a voice and a place in this Assembly. For Papua New Guinea and all the nations of the Pacific, multilateralism matters. The United Nations provides a place where small nations can sit alongside the largest, where a voice can be heard, and where we can work together on the common challenges facing humanity. 5:31:27Copy

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    🇵🇾 Paraguay · Day 2Santiago Peña Palacios

    • For this reason, we defend freedom, democracy, the sovereignty of states, respect for human rights and the peaceful settlement of disputes. For this reason, we uphold human life from conception and we recognize the family as the fundamental unit of our society. Because when human dignity is forgotten, humanity itself disappears. Human dignity from conception until the end of life is the foundation of our presence on this earth. 1:45:04Copy

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    🇵🇪 Peru · Day 1Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi

    • Peruvians don't always find a place within the international community or the empathy that they need or loyalty to the principles that gave rise to this General Assembly. The fact is that the international community really acquires true logic and meaning when it manages to be present at the most critical, difficult junctures. The international community must act within its own limits and ensure there is a community of sovereign nations. Supporting a country does not mean replacing its institutions or overriding the decisions that it is up to its citizens to make within the democratic order. 4:37:47Copy

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    🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis · Day 4Geoffrey Hanley

    • And in 2025, global average temperature remained about 1.43 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial baseline, while global mean sea level stood approximately 11 centimeters higher than in 1993. For island nations, this is a question of sovereignty and statehood. If our coastlines retreat, Our sovereignty must not. Mister President, climate induced sea level, rise must never erase a state's international legal personality. 9:05:54Copy

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    🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Day 5Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud

    • The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the countries of the region have been subjected to flagrant Iranian attacks targeting their security resources and civilian and economic facilities. The Kingdom reiterates its full right to protect its security and sovereignty, its citizens and residents, and its national resources. We call upon the international community to shoulder its responsibilities in confronting all threats to international peace and security. The security of the Gulf region is part and parcel of the security of the region and the world at large. 3:41:52Copy

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    🇹🇳 Tunisia · Day 5Mohamed Ali Nafti

    • Tunisia's belief in multilateral action is not a product of current circumstances. Rather, it is the continuation of a journey that began before independence, when the national movement brought the cause of the Tunisian people before the United Nations and made the right to self-determination and the recovery of sovereignty an integral part of the struggle for freedom. Following independence, Tunisia engaged fully within the United Nations to complete the foundations of its sovereignty and to build the modern state, and it succeeded in doing so. Restoring confidence in the organization and in multilateral action requires, in our view, two essential conditions. 5:52:19Copy

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    🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Day 3Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa

    • Multilateralism is a crucial equalizer. It ensures that all have an equal voice under international law and an equal role in shaping our shared future. Undoubtedly, the Charter remains our common compass. Sovereign equality, political independence, territorial integrity, non-interference, peaceful settlement of disputes, and international cooperation must be applied universally, not selectively. 20:36Copy

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    🇻🇺 Vanuatu · Day 6Odo Tevi

    • Our security depends fundamentally on something else, international law, multilateral institutions, diplomacy, and the equal sovereignty of states. 6:15:29Copy
    • It establishes sovereign equality, peaceful settlement of disputes, and the prohibition or the threat or use of force as fundamental principles of international relations. 6:15:56Copy
    • And when sovereignty is respected, independence has meaning. 6:16:36Copy

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    🇸🇩 Sudan · Day 6Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim

    • I stand today before this distinguished Assembly under deeply regrettable circumstances that Sudan never wished to witness within an organization founded on the principles of sovereign equality among states, respect for international law, and the guarantee of equal participation for all member states. 3:12:36Copy
    • His Excellency, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council of the Republic of Sudan, was to stand before you today to address the General Assembly on behalf of the Sudanese people and government. 3:13:03Copy
    • These sanctions have negatively affected its economy, security, and territorial integrity. 3:15:14Copy

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    🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · Day 6Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré

    • The supreme sacrifice that our heroes have made is a seed of liberty, of justice and sovereignty that our oppressed peoples aspire to. 54:29Copy
    • courage, resilience, commitment and mobilization, as they are showing each and every day, supporting the efforts of the heads of state of the AES confederation remain the center of gravity of our journey towards sovereignty and stability and development to all of the peoples of Africa in the world who share our struggle and who recognize themselves and the ideals of peace dignity and liberty that the confederation represents I reiterate my gratitude Mr. president confederal dynamic that has been engaged in and taken up by our states, far from being an act in isolation, brings forward the rejection of fatality and chronic wardship that we face, as well as the reject of selective criticism when we see human tragedies. 55:02Copy
    • that upholds some powerful actors in order to become the common house of all of the peoples equal in dignity, equal in rights and equal in sovereignty. 1:00:00Copy

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    🇰🇵 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Day 6Kim Son Gyong

    • Unfortunately, however, what the world witnessed every day for the last one year was a harsh reality rampant with unprecedented mutual distrust and confrontation, infringement on sovereignty and military conflicts that led to extreme unrest and disorder globally. 3:43:42Copy
    • all the crises the international community is faced with point one clear fact: that infringement on sovereignty, threat to security interests, and denial of right to development of other countries are bound to breed regional instability and crisis, and lead to aggression and war. 3:45:28Copy
    • Mr. President, The sovereignty, security interests, and territorial integrity of sovereign states are ruthlessly trampled upon, and international law and order feebly collapse due to the unilateral high-handedness and tyranny of a hegemonic state. 3:49:26Copy

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    🇧🇭 Bahrain · Day 4Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani

    • We are now not only defending a regional interest, but a rule that applies to every international waterway. And if it does apply to one, to our strait alone, it wouldn't have been a rule. The Kingdom of Bahrain has not only stated its position in principle on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council states and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and by virtue of its current presidency of the GCC and its non-permanent membership of the Security Council, Bahrain led efforts resulting in the adoption of Security Council Resolution 2817 with a historic and unprecedented support of 136 countries. The resolution condemned the attacks against our countries, reaffirming their sovereignty and rejecting any action intended to close the Strait or obstruct navigation through it. 9:34:07Copy

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    🇧🇧 Barbados · Day 3Mia Amor Mottley

    • Constructive engagement grounded in dialogue, sovereign equality, and respect for international law. That is why we are here as individual states. We will also extend our continued solidarity to the people of Venezuela who regrettably are recovering from the devastating double earthquakes in June. The horror was mind blowing. 8:35:47Copy

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    🇧🇿 Belize · Day 5John Briceño

    • Our voice joins every call for the protection of civilians, for accountability, and for the diplomacy that alone can secure durable peace. Mr. President, for 55 years after independence, Belize continues to pursue the peaceful settlement of its territorial disputes with Guatemala and with Honduras. Belize has chosen and will always choose law over force. Belize informs this assembly of a serious breach of international law committed on the night of 23rd September 2026 when a Guatemalan military aircraft entered Belize's sovereign airspace and intentionally disabled its transponder. 1:10:20Copy

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    🇧🇹 Bhutan · Day 1Tshering Tobgay

    • But GMC was not inherited from history. It was not created to manage a transfer of sovereignty. It is being deliberately created by Bhutan, within Bhutan, on sovereign Bhutanese territory for the future. GMC covers more than 4,000 square kilometers. 10:02:39Copy

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    🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · Day 1Denis Bećirović

    • They are slowing down our path towards a modern European state, but they cannot stop it. Today, Bosnia and Herzegovina stands at the doorstep of the European Union and the NATO. These are our strategic foreign policy objectives, unanimously defined by the state authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Unfortunately, there are still those seeking to realize greater state projects at the expense of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 8:02:23Copy

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    🇧🇼 Botswana · Day 2Duma Gideon Boko

    • That is the tradition I bring to this podium, representing a nation staking its existence on the promise that shared rules, faithfully observed, remain humanity's best instrument for peace and prosperity. That tradition tests whether trust between nations, large and small, can be restored. Mr. President, restoring trust must begin with restoring respect. Respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity, and equal dignity of every nation, regardless of its size, wealth, or military power. 4:43:15Copy

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    🇰🇭 Cambodia · Day 5Sokhonn Prak

    • It is earned through consistency. When commitments are honored, international law is respected, disputes are settled by peaceful means, sovereign equality must remain a principle fundamental principle of international relation. The Charter does not prescribe one standard for the powerful and another for the less powerful. All member states, large or small, are equal before the Charter and are bound by the obligation it establishes. 2:24:25Copy

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    🇨🇫 Central African Republic · Day 2Faustin Archange Touadera

    • We are asking for regional and international solidarity to be commensurate with the challenges we are facing. The CAR, like all sovereign nations, aspires to take full charge of its own security. And I say this with the same gravity. Any drawdown of MINUSCA ought to be gradual, based upon objective and agreed criteria, and not be based on an arbitrary timeline untethered from realities on the ground. 6:01:42Copy

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    🇹🇩 Chad · Day 4Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat

    • My country does not support any of the parties to the conflict in Sudan and in no way authorizes the use of its territory or its infrastructure to their benefit. Chad reiterates its commitment to peace in Sudan. and reiterates its support for all initiatives, including those of the Quad and the Quintet, seeking to establish a ceasefire and to promote dialogue between the warring parties. Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I cannot now remain silent regarding the serious nature of that which is directly affecting our sovereignty. 11:35:10Copy

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    🇨🇱 Chile · Day 1José Antonio Kast

    • Chile also has the Strait of Magellan, a crucial alternative route for global trade. Our nation will become the bridge and the port for the bio-oceanic corridors that will unite America with Asia. This richness, this wealth, is not only fortune that we have in our coffers, it brings with it responsibility to you. Chile will never renounce its sovereignty, neither will it to exploit its own minerals. 4:49:14Copy

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    🇨🇳 China · Day 5Han Zheng

    • China holds that the sovereignty and security of countries in the Middle East, including the Gulf, should be respected. International industrial and supply chains should be kept stable and unimpeded, and global trade should be safeguarded. China calls for advancing the governance of the West Bank and the post-conflict reconstruction of Gaza in accordance with the principle of the Palestinians governing Palestine. It also calls for bringing the Palestinian question back onto the right track of the two-state solution at an early date. 22:55Copy

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    🇰🇲 Comoros · Day 3Azali Assoumani

    • Let 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. The Comorian side has always favored a peaceful settlement of this dispute and has always believed that dialogue is the only alternative. 2:52:36Copy

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    🇨🇬 Congo · Day 6Constant Serge Bounda

    • Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, sovereignty is not a rejection of cooperation. 2:58:37Copy
    • Sovereignty is the ability of a people and a nation to freely determine their priorities, to defend their legitimate interests, to choose their partners, and to preserve their independence in decision-making. 2:58:44Copy
    • This is the understanding of sovereignty that the Republic of the Congo upholds. 2:58:59Copy

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    🇪🇨 Ecuador · Day 2Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin

    • calling for cooperation with full respect for the sovereignty of each nation and with results that we can measure. This is why Ecuador today is proposing three concrete actions. First of all, an international mechanism within the framework of the UN to trace and freeze the illicit financial flows from transnational organized crime. The money is the fuel of these networks, so let us stop it in its tracks. 5:00:00Copy

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    🇬🇦 Gabon · Day 5Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny

    • In this spirit, my country reaffirms its commitment to the principle of non-interference in the domestic affairs of States and to the respect for their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Against this backdrop, Gabon once again welcomes the adoption of resolution 2797 of 2025, which has injected fresh impetus into the settlement of the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, based exclusively on the autonomy plan under Moroccan sovereignty. Mr. President, restoring trust depends above all on concrete action that enables us to address together global challenges relating to peace and security, climate change, sustainable development and pandemics. Accordingly, in the face of human tragedies across the world and particularly in Africa, greater collective engagement is essential. 7:28:28Copy

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    🇬🇪 Georgia · Day 3Irakli Kobakhidzhe

    • For centuries, we stood at the crossroads of civilizations, open to diverse cultures, peoples, and ideas, while steadfastly preserving our own distinct identity and character. Georgia's statehood has been tested more than once, but these challenges have only strengthened our determination to choose our own path. The trials of history have also taught us that sovereignty can never be taken for granted, that stability must be protected, and the strength of the international order ultimately depends on the same principles being upheld for every nation. Our commitment to these principles carries particular meaning for Georgia. 9:22:31Copy

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    🇬🇹 Guatemala · Day 4Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado

    • The sovereignty and territorial integrity of states must be respected. Disputes must be settled by peaceful means. Human rights must be protected. International humanitarian law must be observed in all circumstances. 12:05:38Copy

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    🇮🇸 Iceland · Day 5Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir

    • Meaning that international law applies until it becomes inconvenient. That court decisions must be respected unless they challenge our own actions or those of our friends. That sovereignty is sacred unless someone else's territory stands in the way of our ambitions. We cannot build courts, celebrate them when they prosecute our enemies and undermine them when they turn their attention to our friends. 3:56:49Copy

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    🇮🇷 Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Day 2Masoud Pezeshkian

    • so as to avoid being threatened, to avoid its future being threatened. We do not wish to use our power for hegemony, and we do not seek our security in the insecurity of others. Vis-a-vis Iran's defense, our defensive systems have been built so that no one can think that bombing of Iranian cities will go unanswered. That is why we have the military power we do for defense. 1:30:24Copy

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    🇮🇶 Iraq · Day 4Ali Falih Al-Zaidi

    • This is so that the law is the final authority and national interest is the compass. Our implementation measures in this field are moving on track, as they represent the basis for building a state based on institutions, protecting sovereignty, ensuring stability, and creating the environment necessary for development and investment. With the end of the international coalition's mission in Iraq, we are moving our relationship with our strategic partners to a new phase, moving from military cooperation to economic and development cooperation in service of our common interests. In this manner, We add to Iraqis' victory over terrorism a redoubled determination and momentum to finish building our military and security capacities in order to protect our country, our people, and our sovereignty. 1:04:45Copy

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    🇰🇪 Kenya · Day 2William Samoei Ruto

    • We arrived with one vote and the same sovereign rights as every other State. The promise made in San Francisco now belonged to us as well. And that promise changed the world. When the United Nations was founded, some 750 million people lived under colonial rule. 7:48:50Copy

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    🇱🇮 Liechtenstein · Day 4Sabine Monauni

    • President, Liechtenstein joined the United Nations 36 years ago as its 160th member. We did so driven by the conviction that we, as one of the smallest members of the international community, should be part of the most important conversation on global governance, with the participation of all states, big or small, in developing international norms and standards, and also in upholding respect for them. Sovereignty was a key theme of our domestic discussions, resulting in our UN membership. We joined out of enlightened self-interest, the belief that we need the UN to secure respect for our sovereignty through upholding international law as the basis for our security and prosperity. 7:12:19Copy

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    🇲🇹 Malta · Day 4Robert Abela

    • Europe must never accept that despair. The world must never turn its head away in despair. Malta remains a sediment in our condemnation of that invasion today as we were on day one in February 2022. And Malta is equally as adamant that a just and lasting peace must guarantee Ukraine's sovereignty within its internationally recognized borders. 2:26:19Copy

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    🇲🇭 Marshall Islands · Day 4Hilda Heine

    • This week's UN high-level meeting on sea level rise has helped achieve new understanding in international law. It is the seas that are rising around us, and not our islands which are sinking. Our boundaries and baselines of today, the political footprint on the map, will endure in the face of aggressive sea level rise scenarios. Our collective stability and security as Pacific Islands Forum members and as a UN member state will be now better addressed. 2:08:56Copy

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    🇲🇺 Mauritius · Day 4Dhananjay Ramful

    • Mauritius calls for the principle that statehood and sovereignty are not impacted by sea level rise to be formally codified. Mr. President, water stands at the frontline of the climate crisis. Water is a major concern globally. and Mauritius welcomes the holding of the UN Water Conference in December this year. 11:11:27Copy

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    🇵🇦 Panama · Day 2José Raúl Mulino Quintero

    • I feel indignation as a Panamanian. We are staunch defenders of sovereignty, after all, and we also have a treaty of neutrality for the canal, which is in our constitution, and which ultimately is the guarantee of free trade and the equality for this passage for all nations of the world. As you can therefore see, Panama believes in these principles and actively works to ensure that this happens in practice. Next December, our country will finish its mandate as a non-permanent member of the Security Council. 6:21:20Copy

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    🇸🇮 Slovenia · Day 3Janez Janša

    • Human rights cannot depend on whether the victims are politically convenient to defend. The United Nations must therefore defend not only its institutions, but also the integrity of the principles those institutions exist to serve. Distinguished delegates, Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine is a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and a direct assault on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a member state. Russia's occupation and attempted illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 challenged the fundamental rule of our international order, territory, cannot be acquired by force. 10:18:59Copy

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    🇸🇴 Somalia · Day 3Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

    • Somalia works to uphold the principles of the United Nations Charter and Constitutive Act of the African Union, strengthening cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union, prevent conflict, and support peaceful Africa-led solution with global benefits. Respect for national sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity is not an abstract principle for Somalia only. It is a foundation for peace and stability in our country, our region, and the wider international community. Therefore, Somalia firmly rejects unilateral actions that undermine its sovereignty unity, and internationally recognized borders. 2:25:20Copy

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    🇸🇪 Sweden · Day 4Maria Malmer Stenergard

    • Peace must not be taken for granted. Defense of sovereignty and territorial integrity has been at the heart of Swedish foreign policy ever since. Eight decades later, these principles are once again being challenged. Bad faith, conflict and utter contempt for the common rules are weakening the institutions that we built together. 12:18:37Copy

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    🇨🇭 Switzerland · Day 1Guy Parmelin

    • because we are going through a time of upheaval. The international order established in the aftermath of the Second World War is under severe constraints. Conflicts are multiplying and becoming deadlocked. The most fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter, the prohibition of the use of force and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, are being openly violated. 8:43:43Copy

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    🇸🇾 Syrian Arab Republic · Day 2Ahmad Al-Sharaa

    • Any attempts that violate our sovereignty, violate international law, will be stopped. Golan will remain Syrian territories. Any other attempts will be thwarted according to Security Council Resolution 497. I thank all of those who abided by the international law, and I thank those who refrained from reinterpreting Resolution 497. 22:52Copy

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    🇹🇷 Türkiye · Day 1Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    • On this occasion, I once again will repeat the call I had made numerous times in previous UNGA sessions. The sovereign equality and equal international status of the Turkish Cypriot people must be recognized, and the inhumane isolation to which they have been subjected must finally come to an end. I call upon the international community to recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and to establish political, diplomatic, and economic relations with them. Esteemed delegates, Turkey, thanks to its growing defense industry and thanks to its resilient economy, continues to be an island of stability in the middle of conflicts in its vicinity. 3:12:29Copy

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    🇹🇻 Tuvalu · Day 4Feleti Teo

    • And restoring that trust in that architecture is critical, particularly for small island developing states like Tuvalu, whose sovereignty and future are anchored in that very architecture. Tuvalu, therefore, stands in solidarity with fellow member states in contributing to the restoration of that trust and advancing the necessary reforms and transformation that will enable the United Nations to deliver for all. Mr. President, Tuvalu, like other countries, is being challenged by various enforced transformations that threaten our land, values, knowledge and cultures. Climate change is transforming our physical environment. 3:10:16Copy

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    🇻🇳 Viet Nam · Day 1To Lam

    • UN Charter and international law form the foundation for the international order. They must be respected fully, consistently, and without selectivity. All states must respect each other's independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and right to choose their own path of development, refrain from interference in internal affairs, and refrain from the threat or use of force inconsistent with the UN Charter. Restoring trust does not require countries to erase differences, but rather to manage such differences responsibly. 9:30:43Copy

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    🇧🇮 Burundi · Day 6Right of reply

    • whose military engagement in the DRC is being conducted without the authorization of the Congolese state and in other terms is in a violation of its sovereignty and the notion of the inviolability of its borders. Any attempt to establish a parallel between official cooperation between the Burundi and the DRC and activities conducted by armed groups such as the FDLR is an act of defamation, a distortion of reality. Burundi is not in line with any armed group operating against a neighboring state Burundi remains committed to Regional stability to the fight against armed groups and to stringent compliance with the principle of the sovereignty of States its cooperation with the DRC is state to state cooperation based on formal agreements made between two sovereign governments Burundi reaffirms that its military presence in the DRC is something that falls within the exclusive purview of a bilateral framework and has no direct or indirect link to the FDLR. Faithful to the principles of the United Nations Charter, Burundi remains committed to dialogue, regional cooperation and the peaceful resolution of conflicts. 7:39:12Copy

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    🇮🇩 Indonesia · Day 6Right of reply

    • Indonesia is currently serving as the president of the UN Human Rights Council. After serving six terms as a member of the Council, reflecting the highest level of trust from the international community to Indonesia. That record alone reflects sustained engagement, not a selective one when it's convenient. We also wish to note that arrangements for any visit by the High Commissioner should be agreed between the host state and the Office of the High Commissioner, as applied to every member state. 7:45:15Copy

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    🇾🇪 Yemen · Day 3Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer

    • The challenge lies in unleashing those capabilities from the grip of war and transforming these capabilities into an engine for development today. The heroes of the Yemeni armed forces and all military formations, legitimate military formations, are on the ground confronting these Houthi terrorist militias in defense of our people, our land, our sovereignty, and our future. Here from this very podium, I salute them. I salute their struggle. 7:40:20Copy

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    🇸🇻 El Salvador · Day 6Alexandra Hill Tinoco

    • As the United Nations, we need to commit ourselves and work to redefine the international order so that we can prioritize the common well-being of the whole of humanity regardless of whether of where they live and their condition guarantee the well-being of our brothers and sisters the whole of humanity we need a multilateral system that is able to listen but also to make decisions, to safeguard principles, to respect the sovereignty of states, but that at the same time understands that no state can resolve problems that know no borders alone. 1:53:04Copy
    • multilateralism that does not oblige countries to constantly choose between sovereignty and cooperation. 2:04:14Copy
    • However, we did this while always fighting to safeguard our sovereignty, because our sovereignty is not up for negotiation. 2:06:26Copy

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    🇳🇿 New Zealand · Day 6Victoria Louise Hallum

    • whose sovereignty, security and prosperity depends on a functioning, inclusive multilateral system, grounded in agreed rules and norms, with the UN Charter at its centre. 4:03:01Copy
    • We regard the UN Charter, with its core principles of sovereign equality of states, territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force and respect for human rights, as irreplaceable. 4:03:15Copy
    • We continue, therefore, to invest in the United Nations and agreed international rules as an exercise of our sovereignty, because we believe it is essential to our interests and, indeed, the interests of all. 4:03:31Copy

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    🇦🇷 Argentina · Day 1Right of reply

    • In response to what was stated by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on the Malvinas Island, I wanted to remind you that the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding areas are part of the national territory of Argentina, illegally occupied by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, are the subject of a sovereignty dispute between the two countries, recognized by the United Nations and by other international organizations. The illegal occupation by Britain of the islands is from January of 1833, when British forces occupied the islands, expelling the legitimate Argentinian authorities and substituting them this was at a time of peace and in violation of the international law valid at the time, was never recognized by Argentina. The General Assembly in its resolution 2065 recognizes the existence of a sovereignty dispute and urges the government of Argentina and the United Kingdom to renew negotiations in order to find a peaceful and lasting solution to the dispute as a way of decolonizing the territory. The special decolonization Committee has pronounced several times to this effect. 12:29:14Copy

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    🇸🇩 Sudan · Day 6Right of reply

    • The UAE is holding a campaign, international campaign, to target the Sudanese armed forces, which are currently working against the mercenaries attacks, referring to the Sudanese government as the poor Sudan. government as used by the representative of the UAE does not befit this international forum where the charter talks about equality between members. And we do not refer to the UAE as the Abu Dhabi regime or worse than that. But this forum, the General Assembly, is not a platform for such language. 7:25:49Copy

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     🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Day 6Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar

     • This approach is grounded in full respect for the sovereignty of states, good neighborly relations, international law, and the UN Charter. 3:31:14Copy
     • Amid growing threats to navigation in our region and beyond, my country has continued to emphasize the principles of freedom of navigation and the right of transit passage, We stressed the need to secure and protect the safe flow of supply chains, trade and energy in accordance with international law, including the law of the sea and the principle of state sovereignty, recognizing these as pillars of food security, development and prosperity of nations. 3:31:51Copy
     • We have also supported efforts to reach a sustainable political solution to the question of the Moroccan Sahara, based on the Moroccan autonomy initiative, while affirming the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Morocco over the Sahara. 3:32:36Copy

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     🇩🇿 Algeria · Day 6Ahmed Attaf

     • Algeria renews its condemnation of the violations of the sovereignty of states and their territorial integrity in the region. 1:29:33Copy
     • Foremost among them is the Palestinian people's natural right to establish an independent and fully sovereign state with Al-Quds al-Sharif as its capital. 1:31:52Copy
     • Accordingly, Algeria promotes an approach that is based on supporting the security of states in the region and accompanying their development efforts, and encouraging reconciliation and dialogue, and addressing the underlying causes of instability while respecting state sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and the choices of their people. 1:39:30Copy

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     🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda · Day 6Walton Alfonso Webson

     • Sovereignty cannot depend upon power nor justice upon one's friends. 4:44:35Copy
     • 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
     • Climate change must never be allowed to erase a nation's sovereignty, its statehood, or the rights of its people. 4:48:32Copy

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     🇦🇺 Australia · Day 3Anthony Albanese

     • Mr. President, a safer world is one governed by rules, not by power and force alone. It is a world in which all countries have the freedom to decide their own future, and all countries have their decisions listened to. As a member of the UN Security Council, Australia will safeguard the rules that protect us all by upholding international law, including the UN Charter, and the sovereignty of all states. We will amplify the voices of small states and middle powers to ensure a wider range of perspectives shape the Council's decisions. 10:55:31Copy

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     🇦🇹 Austria · Day 3Beate Meinl-Reisinger

     • Who decides who gets hurt and who is left waiting outside the room? For more than 80 years, this organisation has stood for one answer: power must be bound by rules agreed together. That answer secured Austria's sovereignty and our prosperity. It still does. 11:43:42Copy

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     🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Day 3Tarique Rahman

     • Bangladesh 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. I reiterate Bangladesh's support for any initiative at the United Nations dedicated to establishing world peace and serving humanity. 9:34:36Copy

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     🇧🇾 Belarus · Day 5Maxim Ryzhenkov

     • Finally, our openness to dialogue. We are ready to cooperate with all interested countries. We also are leaving the door open to those Western politicians who are genuinely ready for a dialogue of equals. But there are things that are unacceptable for us: pressure, dictates, ultimatums, and illegal sanctions. 5:29:15Copy

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     🇩🇯 Djibouti · Day 5Abdoulkader Houssein Omar

     • Only an inclusive political solution that places the Sudanese people at the heart of every initiative will make it possible to restore lasting peace and stability. We also call on foreign actors to refrain from fueling this war through harmful interference. Once again, we extend a hand to our Eritrean neighbor. Djibouti remains convinced that dialogue and negotiation in full respect for international law represent the only path towards a peaceful and definitive settlement of our border dispute and the return of our prisoners of war, who have been held incommunicado for more than 18 years. 6:49:34Copy

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     🇩🇲 Dominica · Day 1Sylvanie Burton

     • We believe in respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states. We believe in the peaceful settlement of international disputes. We believe in dialogue. And we believe that international law must apply equally to all nations and must be applied consistently. 8:33:26Copy

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     🇩🇴 Dominican Republic · Day 2Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona

     • We will contribute to building the consensus that made a resolution possible, and we are committing our financial contributions that some proportional for the trust fund of the force and facilitating from our country transit logistics and UN support office we are cooperating with the sanctions regime and supporting the personnel of the mission in our hospitals. We are doing this because this is above all a question of national security for our country and we must repeat this as clearly as possible, there is no Dominican solution to the Haitian crisis, and no state or organization can impose on our country to do it in their place. We will continue to protect our borders, to implement our migratory laws, and strengthen and equip our armed forces in exercise of sovereign equality that the United Nations recognizes for each state. And all of this fully respecting the international obligations that we freely assumed. 4:32:19Copy

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     🇪🇪 Estonia · Day 2Alar Karis

     • Ladies and gentlemen, One of the biggest tests for the UN's relevance is Russia's aggression against Ukraine. For more than 12 years ago, since the illegal annexation of Crimea and occupation of eastern Ukraine in 2014, a permanent member of the Security Council, the Russian Federation, has been perpetrating a war of aggression at the very heart of Europe. But aggression disregards the principles of the United Nations Charter to its very core. It violates the respect of sovereignty and territorial integrity of states and the prohibition of the use of force against another state. 2:45:06Copy

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     🇸🇿 Eswatini · Day 2King Mswati III

     • The United Nations must remain a house where every nation, large or small, has a voice, and where the sovereignty and dignity of all member states are fully respected. As world leaders, we come here every year to promote dignity, peace, justice, humanity, and cooperation in order to create a better world and we should never give up to fight for it. The Kingdom of Eswatini stands ready to work with all Member States, the United Nations system, regional organizations, and international partners to advance peace, dialogue, sustainable development, and human dignity for all. We take this opportunity to extend our appreciation to all UN agencies and the support structures for their diligent work in ensuring the success of this gathering and execution of their various duties. 9:43:49Copy

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     🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Day 2Taye Atske-Selassie Amde

     • Mr. President, Ethiopia has diligently worked to promote cooperation and regional integration through infrastructure development, trade, and people-to-people relationship in the Horn of Africa. We have achieved notable progress with several of our neighbors in spite of attempts by reckless external actors who are habitually engaged in fuming instability. Despite continued interference in our internal affairs by adversarial elements, we have exercised immense restraint and remained by the firm conviction of becoming one of the most prosperous and dynamic development engines in the Africa. Our message to forces of destruction and mayhem is loud and clear. 6:35:16Copy

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113. 
     🇬🇲 Gambia (Republic of The) · Day 3Mohammed Jallow

     • We wish them well as they complete their tenure at the end of this year. Mr. President, few institutions embody the principle of sovereign equality as visibly as this Assembly. Within these walls, differences in power, wealth and influence may shape the realities our nations confront, but they do not confer a greater claim to membership or participation. And perhaps more than anywhere else, this Assembly reminds us of a simple truth: our differences are real, but so is our interdependence. 4:31:28Copy

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     🇬🇷 Greece · Day 3Kyriakos Mitsotakis

     • Syria is another key player in the region. Lasting stability in the Middle East requires a stable Syria. A Syria that is inclusive, a Syria that is free from foreign interference and regional rivalries, a Syria where every citizen can and should feel secure. The new Syrian authorities have taken steps in this direction. 10:33:02Copy

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115. 
     🇻🇦 Holy See · Day 5Cardinal Pietro Parolin

     • respect for sovereignty and borders form the essential foundation for the implementation of the peace plan. Furthermore, the presence of Christians in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East must not only be safeguarded as the legitimate continuation of a historic presence, but must also be encouraged by international community since Christians aspire to be an active force for peace, spirituality, and culture within the mosaic of people that make up the Levant, where the Christian faith originated. The Holy See is following with deep concern the situation in the Gulf region, where the conflict has gradually spread and the violence shows no signs of abating. In particular, the Holy See cannot remain silent about the dramatic impact that this conflict is having on vulnerable civilian populations, who are being driven into hunger and forced displacement, and who are living in barely sustainable conditions. 1:51:05Copy

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116. 
     🇮🇳 India · Day 5Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

     • We believe in the right of each nation to shape its ecosystem with the development of its own models and deployment strategies consistent with its national goals and priorities. AI will be very much part of a partnership agenda with the global South. As technology is democratized, this process is greatly facilitated, Mr. President, by an ethos of mutual respect. Indeed, care and consideration for the interests and viewpoints of others reinforces even the prospects of peace. 4:54:51Copy

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117. 
     🇮🇩 Indonesia · Day 5Sugiono

     • And Indonesia has long understood this for decades. In the 1960s, Indonesia developed the concept of national resilience to safeguard our identity, to protect our sovereignty and unity, and to sustain our development in the face of challenges and obstacles. At the heart of our resilience are our people. A nation is resilient when families can provide for their households, when farmers can produce when workers can find decent jobs, and when children can learn, grow, and dream about their future. 8:58:25Copy

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118. 
     🇮🇪 Ireland · Day 3Micheál Martin

     • This time last year, a bushel of wheat was just over $5. This year, it's more than $7. The fact that a permanent member of the Security Council is seeking to change borders by force in clear violation of the UN Charter is utterly unacceptable. Sovereignty and territorial integrity apply equally to all states. 11:16:00Copy

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119. 
     🇮🇱 Israel · Day 3Benjamin Netanyahu

     • Yet at the time, on this tiny patch of earth, no West Bank, no Gaza, no Golan Heights, just the very survival of this one and only Jewish state, because this is what this conflict is about. It's not about territories. It's about the existence of a Jewish state at any boundaries. And yet, at the time, right at that time, we were threatened with annihilation by three Arab armies that were about to invade us. 5:22:29Copy

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120. 
     🇯🇲 Jamaica · Day 5Kamina Johnson Smith

     • For small states like ours, a rules-based international order is not an abstract diplomatic preference. It is fundamental to our sovereignty, our security, and our development. But neither can we safeguard multilateralism simply by defending it. We must reform it. 7:58:08Copy

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121. 
     🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Day 4Mukhtar Tileuberdi

     • To the contrary, through international trust, it strengthens sovereignty, enhances security, and promotes development. Today, the trust is again in danger. New START has expired, while the 2026 NPT Review Conference ended without substantive outcome for the third consecutive cycle. Nuclear weapons states must never confuse the absence of agreement with a vacuum of obligation. 10:12:26Copy

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122. 
     🇰🇮 Kiribati · Day 4Taneti Maamau

     • Yet, distance does not make a difference to the suffering caused by war and conflicts elsewhere. The people of every nation deserve peace. We reaffirm that disputes must be resolved peacefully, in accordance with the international law and the principles of the United Nations Charter. For island nations such as Kiribati, Respect for international law is fundamental to our security, sovereignty, and stability of the international system. 38:31Copy

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123. 
     🇱🇷 Liberia · Day 3Joseph Nyuma Boakai

     • Developing nations must not be left behind as mere consumers or algorithms designed elsewhere. We must be supported in building true digital sovereignty. We join calls abiding ethical norms and greater regulation of artificial intelligence, particularly in warfare. Innovation must protect human development, not automate human destruction. 3:11:58Copy

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124. 
     🇲🇦 Morocco · Day 1Nasser Bourita

     • Since then, this regional dispute has embarked on an irreversible course, breaking with the past and looking to the future with a view to its final settlement. This track rests on principles and parameters that admit no interpretation, nor any reading between the lines or in the margins, as some are vainly attempting, deluding themselves in flagrant denial of reality and total disregard for established truth. These principles, as set forth in the Security Council resolution, are as follows: First, There is no solution outside the framework of the autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty. Second, there is no approach or mechanism other than the political negotiation process under the auspices of the United Nations and on a sole basis, namely the autonomy initiative presented by the Kingdom of Morocco. 12:23:09Copy

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125. 
     🇳🇵 Nepal · Day 3Balendra Shah

     • Its promise was that sovereignty would matter, international law would matter, the dignity of every human being would matter, and the weak would not simply have to accept whatever the powerful decide. Today, that international system is under strain. Too often, military and economic power determines whose voice is heard. Nepal believes we need much fairer global economic order. 11:36:23Copy

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126. 
     🇲🇰 North Macedonia · Day 4Hristijan Mickoski

     • And a state that does not expect others to build it in its place. That, to me, is modern sovereignty, not isolation capability. This year, Secretary General, Antonio Guterres reminded us on the charter begins with the words, "We, the peoples." And he added, "Not we powerful, not we the victors." 3:52:05Copy

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127. 
     🇴🇲 Oman · Day 5Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi

     • Based on the values and principles that help us achieve our shared goals of achieving security and stability for all and advancing economic development projects and prosperity, shared prosperity for our peoples. refraining from the use of force and interference in the internal affairs of states, and being guided instead by the Charter of the United Nations and international law, and respecting the sovereignty and independence of states, can provide a sound framework that governs international relations and that builds trust and constructive cooperation among states. Distinguished heads and members of delegations, honourable delegates. At the beginning of this year, our region witnessed a war that could have been avoided. 7:14:48Copy

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128. 
     🇺🇳 President of the General Assembly (opening) · Day 1Dr. Khalilur Rahman

     • So let us engage, let us take charge, fix our own house, respect sovereignty of Member States, and together deliver the transformation we need. As we decide what must change, we must also recognize what already works. Again and again, Member States tell us that the United Nations works well at the country level, emergency situations, and in keeping and building peace. We should build on that success. 1:12:38Copy

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129. 
     🇷🇴 Romania · Day 2Nicuşor-Daniel Dan

     • through repeated violations of our airspace. A few months back, a drone crashed onto a residential building on our territory, injuring people and causing material damage. It was one episode in an ongoing series of such incidents. We have said it before and we will say it again. 47:21Copy

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130. 
     🇱🇨 Saint Lucia · Day 4Philip J. Pierre

     • Cuba has long been celebrated for its continued contribution to health, education, and development across our region and beyond. Saint Lucia stands with the Cuban people in the hope for a better future, supported by the friendship and solidarity of the international community. In the same spirit of transformation and consistent with our commitment to the right of all people to self-determination, Saint Lucia supports Taiwan's full membership in the United Nations. Saint Lucia believes that a truly inclusive United Nations must ensure that its decision-making bodies reflect the world that they serve. 4:32:11Copy

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131. 
     🇺🇳 Secretary-General of the United Nations · Day 1António Guterres

     • In Ukraine, Russia's full-scale invasion has subjected a sovereign country to a brutal war in blatant violation of the Charter. Civilians continue to be killed far from the front lines. mainly in Ukraine, but also more recently in parts of Russia. Homes, energy and water systems and transport have come under repeated attack, threatening food and energy supply chains globally. 33:39Copy

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132. 
     🇸🇨 Seychelles · Day 1Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie

     • Size does not define sovereignty and geography does not diminish dignity. We may be a small island developing state, but we sit as an equal participant in this hall. Every nation regardless of population or economic power, possesses an inherent right to sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national dignity. Today, however, sovereignty faces quiet, insidious threats. 9:02:06Copy

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133. 
     🇸🇰 Slovakia · Day 2Peter Pellegrini

     • What if we, as world leaders, would start again following the UN Charter Would reform even matter if we finally did our best for global peace? Too many conflicts are still driven by the belief that political problems can be solved by force, by changing borders, violating sovereignty, and ignoring international rules. We need to reject this logic. Leadership is not shown by the willingness to escalate. 7:41:29Copy

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134. 
     🇸🇧 Solomon Islands · Day 4Matthew Cooper Wale

     • But we cannot do this alone. I call on this Assembly to match the courage of our Pacific communities with collective international resolve to scale up adaptation and resilience finance and to support communities facing climate mobility needs. Solomon Islands reaffirms that maritime boundaries, once established and deposited in accordance with UNCLOS, together with the rights and entitlements that flow from them shall continue to apply, notwithstanding any physical changes caused by climate change related sea level rise. Sir, the ocean is not simply a resource. 4:08:00Copy

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135. 
     🇹🇬 Togo · Day 4Robert Komlan Edo Dussey

     • We are convinced that no lasting solution can be imposed from the outside without actively listening to local and sovereign realities and what's going on on the ground. Africa is not asking for others to act in its place. It is asking for its efforts to be recognized, assisted and supported. Mr. President, On the 26th of September 2025, almost to the day a year ago, right here before this august assembly, I challenged the universal conscience on the distortion of the map of the world which wrongly shrunk the size of Africa on the map of the world and in the global collective imagination. 12:37:23Copy

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136. 
     🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago · Day 1Kamla Persad-Bissessar

     • Trinidad and Tobago will advocate for an approach that safeguards international security without closing off innovation, development, and opportunity, and that ensures developing countries have a meaningful role in shaping the rules for this new technological era. Mr. President, the situation in Haiti remains of particular concern, not just for us in the region, but, I think, across the world. Trinidad and Tobago stands in full support of international efforts to help restore security and stability in Haiti whilst maintaining that the country's political future must ultimately be Haitian-led and Haitian-owned. Security assistance is necessary, but lasting stability will also require functioning institutions, economic opportunities, and a credible political process. 10:28:31Copy

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137. 
     🇬🇧 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Day 1Andy Burnham

     • We will stand firm in the face of any threats and challenges to the rule of law, not just from Russia, but from others too, including where they threaten the rights of British territories, to remain British, such as the Falkland Islands. That's why we're also working with France and other partners to support freedom of navigation in the Gulf. And it's why I have acted on the Middle East. Just eight weeks into becoming Prime Minister, working with my Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, I comprehensively reset our position. 11:15:15Copy

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138. 
     🇹🇿 United Republic of Tanzania · Day 1Deogratius Ndejembi

     • Excellencies, global solidarity must be concurrent with respect of each other's sovereignty. Tanzania stands against the proliferating trend of some states to assume the responsibility of policing and imposing unilateral sanctions on others, thus undermining the principles of sovereignty and peaceful coexistence. As stated previously, Tanzania reaffirms its position to oppose the use of such coercive measures against any Member State and reaffirms its unwavering solidarity with Cuba, Zimbabwe and all other States that are subjected to such unjustifiable constraints. In line with this, our resolve to leave no one behind, we call for an immediate and unequivocal lifting of these measures that cause hardship, constrain development, and obstruct full enjoyment of human rights. 9:51:08Copy

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     🇮🇷 Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Day 3Right of reply

     • Yet, neither we will forget nor forgive the war crimes committed jointly by the US-Israeli regime, nor can silence or inaction shield criminals from accountability. Mr. President, the Islamic Republic of Iran warns in the clearest possible terms that any further act of aggression against our sovereignty, territorial integrity, or national interests will be met with a decisive and devastating response. Relying on God the Almighty, the great nation of Iran will resolutely defend its homeland, its honor, and its interests. We will definitely overcome the aggressors. 12:22:39Copy

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     🇮🇳 India · Day 4Right of reply

     • At the heart of the issue, Mr. President, is the longstanding practice of cross-border terrorism by Pakistan. We demonstrated last year that terrorists will have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Our right to defend ourselves against terrorism will be exercised, and continued terrorism by Pakistan will have consequences. It will understandably call into question what were premised on friendship and goodwill. 12:53:34Copy

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     🇹🇭 Thailand · Day 6Right of reply

     • The Cambodian displaced persons, including the remaining 20,000 internally displaced persons as referenced by Cambodia, were in fact Cambodians residing in areas that Thailand originally opened as temporary shelters in the 1970s. This is well documented. Cambodia knows it, so do we. Their failure to return to Cambodia, despite our repeated protests, constitutes an encroachment on Thai territory. 7:16:26Copy

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     🇮🇷 Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Day 6Right of reply

     • Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Mr. President, in response to the UAE representative, the Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates its full sovereignty over the Iranian islands of Abu Musa, Quriyat al-Tum, and Lesser Tum in the Persian Gulf. They have been, are, and will remain integral parts of our territory, and our sovereignty over them is not negotiable. We therefore categorically reject any claim to the country. I must also stress that Persian Gulf is the only true geographical designation for the body of water lying between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. 7:20:04Copy

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     🇹🇩 Chad · Day 6Right of reply

     • They seek to install ideas according to which Chad would be involved in one way or another in the conflict in Sudan. That's the narrative they're trying to push. We categorically reject in the strongest terms these fallacious allegations. Chad recalls that since the onset of this war, we have remained stringently in adherence with the principle of neutrality. 7:53:36Copy

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     🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Day 6Right of reply

     • Mr. President, My delegation would like to exercise the right of reply in response to the statement delivered by the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Greater Tomb, the Lesser Tomb, and Abu Musa of the Arab Gulf are islands that are part of the UAE and are under Iranian occupation. We completely reject continued Iranian occupation of the three islands. Any attempt to paint this as an internal Iranian matter does not change the fact that this is an occupied land and should not be under Iran's sovereignty. 7:58:56Copy

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     🇵🇭 Philippines · Day 6Right of reply

     • The fact that one party does not accept the award does not alter its legal character or the obligations arising from it, nor can unilateral assertions or subsequent domestic measures modify the maritime entitlements established under UNCLOS. The Philippines likewise rejects any suggestion that its lawful exercise of sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction constitutes provocation. The relevant question is whether the conduct of states is consistent with their obligations under international law. In this regard, the Philippines remains concerned by actions at sea that interfere with the exercise of its rights and jurisdiction in its maritime zones. 8:14:32Copy

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     🇹🇩 Chad · Day 6Right of reply

     • What's more is the territory of Chad has not been spared from attacks linked to the Sudanese conflict. Another attack was recently recorded linked to the Sudan conflict. Chad firmly condemns these new incursions. These are and an unacceptable violation of our territorial integrity, we reserve the right to take all the necessary measures in accordance with international law, with a view to protecting our sovereignty in case these attacks were to be repeated. 8:17:38Copy

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     🇿🇲 Zambia · Day 5Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe

     • It is in this spirit that Zambia recently concluded its general elections through which our people exercised their constitutional rights to choose their leaders. and we thank the people of Zambia for their participation in the democratic process and for renewing their confidence in our leadership. We also express our sincere appreciation to the international election observation missions for their invaluable support and contribution to Zambia's democratic process. Zambia remains a peaceful stable and sovereign nation and the peaceful atmosphere that characterized the country before, during and after the elections is a clear reflection of our people's enduring commitment to democracy, national unity and constitutional governance. 8:36:51Copy

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     🇿🇦 South Africa · Day 3Ronald Ozzy Lamola

     • We've built a United Nations of diverse people, still in their determination to never let history repeat itself. We've built a vibrant democracy capable of self-correcting and stepping back from the brink. A democracy strong enough to withstand and resist attempts at external supervision and tutelage. 11:59:36Copy

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     🇨🇳 China · Day 6Right of reply

     • On territorial issues and maritime delimitation disputes, China does not accept any dispute settlement solution imposed upon it, and has consistently advocated resolving disputes through negotiation and consultation with the countries directly concerned. China will continue to work with ASEAN countries to jointly safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea. Thank you, President. 7:37:04Copy

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     🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Day 6Vepa Hajiyev

     • In these circumstances, it's particularly important to uphold the common purposes enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, ensure respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states, their sovereign equality and non-interference in their internal affairs, and strengthen the rule of international law. 4:24:50Copy
     • Turkmenistan will also propose the establishment within the United Nations of a group of friends of multilateralism and the sovereign equality of states. 4:26:48Copy

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     🇧🇯 Benin · Day 6Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba

     • It should also remain true to the principles which underpin its legitimacy, universality, the sovereign equality of states, solidarity, and respect for the UN Charter. 6:47:12Copy

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152. 
     🇩🇰 Denmark · Day 6Christina Markus Lassen

     • It has pointed us toward a world of equal rights, self-determination of peoples, and territorial integrity of all states. 5:48:38Copy

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153. 
     🇺🇳 President of the General Assembly (closing) · Day 6Dr. Khalilur Rahman

     • It requires prevention, mediation and diplomacy, respect for sovereignty and rights, adherence to international law, and investment in the conditions that sustain peace. 7:02:06Copy

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     🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Day 6Vijitha Herath

     • We stand in solidarity with the international community in calling for an independent and sovereign state of Palestine. 2:41:25Copy

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