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Trade, tariffs and sanctions at UNGA 81
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Speeches that raised trade, tariffs and sanctions
Kyrgyzstan · Day 1Sadyr ZhaparovStarting 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.
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Switzerland · Day 1Guy ParmelinTo restore trust, to support transformation, and to demonstrate through concrete results that cooperation remains possible.
This erosion of trust extends far beyond the realms of peace and security.
We're also seeing it in the global economy.
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United States of America · Day 1Donald TrumpI call on all nations to join us in enforcing the complete economic isolation of Iran until they stop their attacks on commercial shipping, relinquish their nuclear ambitions, and cease their support
Numerous of these wars have gone on for many years and even decades.
The reason I was able to make these settlements was the use of my relationships, very special relationships to this day, very, very special, trade, the use of tariffs and the threat of tariffs, and various other reasons depending on the country, among them, in terms of settlement, Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and, of course, the war in Gaza, which, as I stated previously, includes the return of all hostages, both living and dead.
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Brazil · Day 1Luiz Inácio Lula Da SilvaThe World Trade Organization is being kept on life support.
When governments capitulate vis-a-vis those who use tariffs as weapons of coercion and blackmail, consequences are harmful.
In the age of misinformation, obscurantists resist the evidence of science.
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Angola · Day 1João Manuel Gonçalves Lourençoover decades, as a victim of an embargo that continues and worsens the living conditions of the Cuban people.
Cuba is not a terrorist state.
It neither produces nor possesses nuclear weapons, chemical or biological weapons that could constitute an imminent or real threat to the national security of other countries, including the neighboring countries.
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Viet Nam · Day 1To LamDistinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, the world is undergoing profound shift in the international order with many risks and uncertainties.
The tendency towards the threat or use of force and the arms race, especially the modernization of nuclear weapons and the development of new technology weapons, are heightening the risk of confrontation, miscalculation, conflict, and even of large-scale wars.
At the same time, the global economy is becoming increasingly fragmented amid mounting barriers to trade, investment, and technology.
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Japan · Day 1Takaichi SanaeJapan has also launched the Partnership on Wide Energy Resources Resilience Asia, Power Asia, to strengthen energy and resource supply resilience in Asia and has been promoting cooperation in areas such as stockpiling capacity development, and credit provision.
Furthermore, Japan is currently formulating a comprehensive cooperation plan aimed at strengthening the economic and energy resilience of Gulf countries in the Middle East.
Through this initiative, we will work to further strengthen the collaboration between the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, and the Gulf countries to ensure a stable global energy supply.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Day 1Andy BurnhamBritain is back.
We are restoring our stability, building a more dynamic economy, a nation that wants to trade with the world and work together to solve the shared problems we face.
But we have also learned that we need to adapt to meet the challenge of these times.
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Belgium · Day 1Maxime PrévotIt is not merely the abstract right of a ship to travel from a point to another.
It allows economies that may share neither the same interests nor the same alliances to remain connected.
It allows a landlocked state to take part in global trade.
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Jordan · Day 1Abdullah II ibn Al HusseinBecause the world's political inaction is not for lack of options.
So let's call it for what it is, a choice.
We have tools, sanctions, asset freezes, embargoes, diplomatic isolation, and we have a record of using them elsewhere.
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Chile · Day 1José Antonio KastWhat has changed is the world around it.
What has changed first and foremost is Chile.
For the vast swathes of the '90s and until the beginning of the 2000s, Chile was a success story and a model for many regions and nations.
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France · Day 1Emmanuel MacronMoving on, global trade needs to be more effective and more equitable.
This is what we sought to achieve at the G7 meeting France convened, bringing together countries of the South, ensuring that there is common ground, a dialogue, going beyond the G7 with China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Kenya, the list goes on.
so that we can improve our collective organization, ensure that we work on rare earth minerals, rare earth metals, critical minerals, as well as other areas.
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Suriname · Day 1Jennifer Geerlings-SimonsDialogue is paramount for safeguarding a solid and proven UN system.
The people of Cuba, a Caribbean country, are adversely affected by the current situation in their country.
Suriname calls on the parties involved to remain committed to dialogue and negotiation to end the economic, commercial, and financial embargo.
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Seychelles · Day 1Mathew Antonio Patrick HerminieSmall and vulnerable states like ours should never bear the collateral economic cost of conflicts in which you have no part.
Furthermore, we firmly reject unilateral coercive measures that violate international law and inflict disproportionate hardship on innocent populations.
Yet our global architecture is failing to reinforce these principles.
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Naoero · Day 1David Ranibok AdeangI am asking this assembly to honor its word.
And I cannot then fall silent when that word is broken for someone else.
For 33 consecutive years, This Assembly has called for an end to the embargo against Cuba.
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United Republic of Tanzania · Day 1Deogratius NdejembiExcellencies, 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.
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Bhutan · Day 1Tshering TobgayGMC sits directly on the border with India, our closest friend and neighbor.
The vision enjoys the support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government of India, and our neighbors across the border in Assam.
Beyond that border lies the world's most populous country and one of its largest and fastest growing economies.
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Morocco · Day 1Nasser Bouritaand provide them with safe haven and support.
The responsibility of these sponsoring states is not merely political, it is also legal, moral, and historical.
These groups and their sponsors alike cannot be allowed to become a means of evading responsibility or a tool for carrying out what states cannot do directly.
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