UN80 and UN reform at UNGA 81

Statements that raised UN80 and UN reform

1. 
   🇳🇴 Norway · Day 4Espen Barth Eide

   • President, the triple crisis I have set out here is no less than an existential crisis for our United Nations. Yet, thankfully, to counter this, we have concrete proposals for reform on the table, the UN80 initiative. The UN80 initiative is a test of our ability to build a stronger, more robust UN. Norway supports the level of ambition that the Secretary-General has set out. 11:50:43Copy

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

   • It is earned. And we earn trust, I believe, in three ways. First, by being unapologetically realistic about where we are falling behind. Second, by taking a foundational look at the reforms of the United Nations to deliver better. 1:02:56Copy

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   🇧🇾 Belarus · Day 5Maxim Ryzhenkov

   • More and more voices are saying that the UN is not working in the interests of all and is incapable of managing change. This is largely because we, the member states, have in large part become mired in endless debates, but have failed to give the organization a real opportunity to act. That is precisely why the theme of this session sounds today like a verdict on our collective indecision and at the same time as a diagnosis calling for urgent treatment. We are surrounded by a systemic crisis in international relations. 5:14:34Copy

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   🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Day 1Sadyr Zhaparov

   • Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, distinguished heads of delegations, ladies and gentlemen. At the outset of my speech, I would like to sincerely congratulate Mr. Halilovic on being elected as the President of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly and wish him further success. As you are all aware, last year the international community marked the 80th anniversary of the United Nations. For 80 years, this unique global organization has been standing at the forefront of safeguarding peace, security, and development. 3:28:37Copy

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   🇨🇴 Colombia · Day 3José Manuel Restrepo

   • International cooperation is richer when those who sit around this table know who they are, where they come from, and what the people in whose name they speak represent. Several of the questions that I've asked are not unfamiliar to this organization. The UN80 initiative has placed on the table issues of duplication, fragmentation, administrative burden, and the way mandates function as part of an effort to make the United Nations more efficient and more effective. President, Secretary-General, heads of state and government excellencies. 5:08:58Copy

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   🇧🇼 Botswana · Day 2Duma Gideon Boko

   • We also believe that efficiency gains should be redeployed to strengthen the capacity of the organization to prevent conflict, address emerging security threats, and deliver meaningful results in program countries in line with the UN80 vision. It is in this spirit that Botswana accords the highest priority to its partnerships with the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, UN-Habitat, the International Trade Centre, the International Organization for Migration, among others. We particularly recognize UNOCT's leadership role in strengthening the United Nations' collective efforts to prevent and counter terrorism and violent extremism. and in translating international commitments into practical support for Member States. 4:50:34Copy

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   🇪🇪 Estonia · Day 2Alar Karis

   • and well as reassess how the United Nations operates. Estonia supports a system-wide reform of UN80 and humanitarian reset, which are both well underway and have already delivered some encouraging results. Now it's time to build on this momentum and to move decisively forward with reforms. We need ambition. 2:51:25Copy

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   🇬🇾 Guyana · Day 3Mohamed Irfaan Ali

   • Leadership that can build bridges where division has become habitual. Leadership that can defend the principles of the Charter without fear or favor. The United Nations needs its next General Secretary to work with all Member States to restore confidence in the Organization, mobilize its energies, and turn the language of multilateralism from aspiration into action. The reform of the United Nations, the restoration of trust, and the need to manage transformation is, therefore, inseparable from the question of leadership. 2:09:07Copy

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   🇱🇮 Liechtenstein · Day 4Sabine Monauni

   • It is increasingly ignored or sidelined in efforts to address both the traditional and new challenges, such as the regulation of artificial intelligence. It is permanently squeezed financially. Legal obligations to pay are turned into tools to exercise political leverage. As a result, the United Nations has moved down the foreign policy agenda even of states who have a strong history of supporting it. 7:14:42Copy

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    🇲🇺 Mauritius · Day 4Dhananjay Ramful

    • Mr. President, allow me to congratulate His Excellency Dr. Khalilur Rahman on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly and assure him of the support of my delegation. I also wish to pay tribute to His Excellency Antonio Guterres for his outstanding dedication and commitment to this organization during his two terms as Secretary-General. He will be remembered as a leader with a steady hand, always guided by principles of fairness, compassion, and dignity for all. Mr. President, the United Nations has now completed the first eight decades of its existence. 11:05:30Copy

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    🇵🇾 Paraguay · Day 2Santiago Peña Palacios

    • Excluding it doesn't serve to strengthen the system. It deprives the system of capacities that could benefit us all. And it is a stain on the United Nations. But let's make no mistake, the problem is not Taiwan alone. 1:54:24Copy

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    🇧🇧 Barbados · Day 3Mia Amor Mottley

    • And it is in this spirit I'd like to thank Her Excellency Annalena Baerbock for her leadership of the General Assembly's 80th session and for helping to advance the work of the Member States on UN reform. And to you, Mr. President, Barbados extends its warm congratulations. We look forward to your stewardship of this Assembly and we move to restore trust and indeed to carry reforms from proposals to implementation. But reform cannot be selective. 8:15:22Copy

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    🇩🇲 Dominica · Day 1Sylvanie Burton

    • The United Nations provides shelter and protection to people enduring conflict displacement, and natural disaster. It supports education, healthcare, peacekeeping, elections, and development in communities that might otherwise be forgotten. These achievements matter and must never be dismissed or diminished. What the United Nations does not currently do enough is deliver at the transformative level. 8:18:49Copy

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    🇯🇵 Japan · Day 1Takaichi Sanae

    • However, these challenges cannot be solved by any single country acting alone. Now more than ever, the flag of the United Nations must be held high, and under that banner, member states must mobilize the collective strength of the membership to elaborate new rules and build a framework for cooperation. I am convinced that the United Nations is the only organization capable of taking the helm on a global scale. To this end as well, reform of the United Nations is essential. 10:52:45Copy

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    🇲🇬 Madagascar · Day 3Michaël Randrianirina

    • Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, our challenge today is therefore to rethink our mechanisms of cooperation through greater synergy between UN agencies and governmental structures. in order to optimize the effectiveness of our actions on the ground, but also to provide better visibility of tangible results achieved for the benefit of populations. In this regard, the success of our agenda largely depends on strengthening governance and strengthening institutions, priorities that are fully integrated into Madagascar's process of re-foundation. We recognize Also, the absolute necessity of reforming the United Nations so that it may serve all peoples. 51:33Copy

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    🇲🇻 Maldives · Day 4Hussain Mohamed Latheef

    • And as the world transforms, so must the United Nations. The UN80 initiative is an opportunity to reduce duplication, improve accountability, and focus resources on results. But efficiency must not be measured simply by what we cut. It must be measured by what we deliver. 54:40Copy

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    🇲🇹 Malta · Day 4Robert Abela

    • It must also be the central mission of the remaking of this United Nations. To change, you have to believe. We know we need to change how the United Nations works, how it takes decisions, and how it delivers on the ground. But we can only make that change, achieve that transformation, if we believe that change is possible. 2:22:41Copy

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    🇸🇰 Slovakia · Day 2Peter Pellegrini

    • The Security Council should better reflect today's realities and give a stronger voice to countries and regions that are still underrepresented. Countries from the region often understand a crisis best. Giving them a stronger voice can help us act earlier and prevent escalation. Slovakia sees its engagement in UN reform as a part of its responsibility to this organization, including through UNAT and the implementation of the Pact for the Future. 7:37:01Copy

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    🇩🇯 Djibouti · Day 5Abdoulkader Houssein Omar

    • At the outset, I should like to convey to this august assembly the greetings of His Excellency Ismael Omar Guelleh, President of the Republic of Djibouti. Mr. President, allow me, on behalf of the Republic of Djibouti, to extend my warm congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh on his election as President of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, and to wish him every success in carrying out his mandate. I would also like to pay tribute to Her Excellency Madam Annalena Baerbock for her leadership during the last session, which marked the 80th anniversary of our organization. The Republic of Djibouti welcomes the choice of the theme for this session, Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation, a United Nations that Delivers for All. 6:45:20Copy

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    🇦🇹 Austria · Day 3Beate Meinl-Reisinger

    • Not because it has failed, because we have let it stand still, but There is no alternative to the United Nations. There is only the work of making it work. The United Nations was not created to discuss international problems. It was created to solve them. 11:48:52Copy

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    🇹🇩 Chad · Day 4Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat

    • At a time when the UN is discussing crucial reforms and multilateralism is at a crossroads, the topic of this 81st session, Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation, is a very relevant topic. It summarizes the expectations of member states and the peoples of the world in all of their diversity vis-a-vis the UN. Each year, we adopt new resolutions and we reaffirm our commitments. Each year, we renew our faith in multilateralism. 11:27:17Copy

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    🇨🇱 Chile · Day 1José Antonio Kast

    • The United Nations has a role to play and it must do so with the character and the dynamism that it has not yet shown. Delegates, here is the most uncomfortable thing I came to say, the hardest pill to swallow in my speech. This organization has not been commensurate with the challenges of our times. It's not only a leadership problem, one of the present or the future, but rather a problem in terms of action. 4:53:35Copy

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    🇮🇸 Iceland · Day 5Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir

    • The Security Council, entrusted with maintaining international peace and security, has too often been paralyzed when action was needed most. Too often, the veto has become a shield against action, rather than a tool for preserving peace. So, yes, the United Nations needs reform. And Iceland fully supports the UN80 reform process. 3:55:38Copy

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    🇮🇪 Ireland · Day 3Micheál Martin

    • But that would be the wrong conclusion, because the answer to a world under strain is not less international cooperation, it is more. The answer to the weakening of principles is not to abandon them, it is to defend them. And if our multilateral system is not working effectively, the answer is not to walk away from it, it is to make it stronger, fairer and fit for the world we live in. That is Ireland's position and that is what all of us, as members of the United Nations, need to deliver on. 11:11:12Copy

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    🇯🇲 Jamaica · Day 5Kamina Johnson Smith

    • We must make it more representative, more accountable, more efficient, and more responsive to the needs and realities of the people it was created to serve. That is why Jamaica has chosen not merely to call for reform, but to help lead it. Our Permanent Representative was privileged to co-chair with New Zealand the UN80 Initiative's informal ad hoc working group on mandate implementation review. That work culminated in General Assembly resolution 80/251, an important framework for improving how UN mandates are created, implemented and reviewed. 7:58:29Copy

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    🇱🇧 Lebanon · Day 4Nawaf Salam

    • We know that Security Council reform is a complex matter, but the difficulty of reform is no argument against its necessity. Indeed, reform of the United Nations must begin here, with the Security Council. For it is the Security Council that bears primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. Therefore, once again, add Lebanon's voice to that of the majority of the members of our organization in calling for an expansion of the Security Council that achieves more inclusive and equitable representation. 1:41:48Copy

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    🇷🇼 Rwanda · Day 2Justin Nsengiyumva

    • An international system that gives all countries a fair opportunity to determine their own development pathways must be central to the UN80 reform process. The question before this Assembly is not whether multilateralism remains relevant. It is whether our institutions are prepared to adapt to the challenges of our century and to deliver results that matter. We welcome this session's emphasis on restoring trust through prevention, inclusion and reform, and we stand ready to work with all Member States towards that end. 11:07:04Copy

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    🇸🇳 Senegal · Day 3Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye

    • We will not guarantee a just international order if we see right being replaced by might. Doing all of that will imperil the very raison d'etre of our organization, that is dialogue, conflict prevention, the peaceful resolution of disputes, cooperation and respect for international law. In this vein, and with this in mind, the UN80 initiative provides us with a historic opportunity to usher in the structural and normative transformations that we need to see. However, reforming the United Nations must not stymie its ambitions. 6:26:14Copy

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    🇸🇴 Somalia · Day 3Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

    • Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, UN political reform must be accompanied by institutional, administrative, and operational renewal. For nearly two decades, we have discussed the need to make United Nations operations more agile, coordinated, cost-effective, and capable of delivering measurable results. Some progress has been made, and we recognize the dedication of the many United Nations personnel working under difficult conditions around the world. However, we must also be honest. 2:27:00Copy

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    🇸🇪 Sweden · Day 4Maria Malmer Stenergard

    • Urgency based on what science tells us, opportunity based on the economic growth, jobs, and strengthened competitiveness that climate transition brings. Given the state of the world, changes are necessary to ensure the UN's central role in international affairs and its ability to address today's challenges. An efficient, effective, nimble and well-coordinated UN is urgently needed. Sweden strongly supports the Secretary-General's UN80 initiative and expects all UN entities to engage fully, with a clear focus on improving delivery at country level. 12:23:41Copy

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    🇹🇴 Tonga · Day 4Lord Fakafanua

    • Internationally, pledged commitments must be actioned urgently. The next Secretary-General must understand these realities intimately. It is in this spirit that Tonga has nominated Ambassador Yvonne Baki of Ecuador, whose vision for a renewed, reformed United Nations speaks to the needs of vulnerable States. To restore trust, every Member State, large or small, must have a voice in shaping this organization's future and a stake in its success. 8:27:53Copy

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    🇹🇳 Tunisia · Day 5Mohamed Ali Nafti

    • Tunisia welcomes the efforts undertaken within the framework of the UN80 initiative. We regard these efforts as a true opportunity on which we should build. rather than a final destination in the reform process. We support the three reform tracks proposed by the initiative, provided that they are pursued through an inclusive consultative process that preserves the intergovernmental nature of the organization and does not undermine the negotiating mandates of member states. 5:55:03Copy

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    🇱🇻 Latvia · Day 2Edgars Rinkēvičs

    • Latvia supports the Secretary-General's UN80 initiative. Reform is not about weakening the United Nations. It is about making it stronger, more focused, and better able to deliver on its mandate. That must include also the Security Council. 36:24Copy

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    🇳🇬 Nigeria · Day 3Kashim Shettima

    • We must therefore return to the founding principles of dialogue, mutual respect, and collective responsibility. Nigeria stands by the charter and its promise of a world in which diplomacy prevails over coercion, cooperation over isolation, and international law over arbitrary exercise of power. Mr. President, the reform of this institution must begin with the reconstitution of the Security Council. for the world of 2026 cannot remain captive to the distribution of power in 1945. 7:15:27Copy

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    🇺🇾 Uruguay · Day 3Yamandú Orsi

    • However, we are convinced that our size shouldn't determine our ability to contribute, much less affect our own dignity. We need more effective, more representative multilateral institutions that are closer to the people and more able to respond to the challenges of our time. We need cooperation, we need solidarity and we also need to demonstrate austerity within these institutions. But above all We need to restore trust in our collective ability to change things because at its heart, the very idea of well-being and progress springs from something that is profoundly human, that is the ability to recognize suffering and refuse to accept inertia. 3:55:29Copy

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    🇦🇷 Argentina · Day 2Javier Gerardo Milei

    • But today, regrettably, it is time to acknowledge that in practice that sacred covenant has been broken. That's to say, it's become a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a cast of fatally arrogant parasites, masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats. I would remind them of what Mises said, "Good people do not think about controlling the lives of their fellow human beings." Those who were supposed to guarantee collective security and human rights failed in their task. 2:22:27Copy

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    🇧🇭 Bahrain · Day 4Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani

    • He noted that this organization must evolve to confront the growing threats. He called for comprehensive, consensus-based reform encompassing all decision-making bodies, including the Security Council. What has happened since then has not altered that conviction. Instead, it has reinforced it. 9:38:50Copy

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    🇧🇪 Belgium · Day 1Maxime Prévot

    • It also requires institutions capable of functioning. Defending the United Nations doesn't mean pretending that everything within it works well. The UN80 process is necessary. But there is a difference between reforming an organization and weakening it. 12:03:55Copy

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    🇧🇿 Belize · Day 5John Briceño

    • Small and vulnerable states must be placed at the center of the organization's work, not at the margins of decisions that determine our survival. The United Nations must become more agile, more representative, and better equipped to deliver. A leaner United Nations is not automatically a better one. Peace and security cannot be an afterthought to a budget exercise. 1:13:49Copy

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    🇨🇻 Cabo Verde · Day 5Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho

    • The UN80 initiative presents an opportunity to modernize this organization and strengthen its response capacity. In this spirit, we also support the reform of the Security Council. Africa is home to nearly one quarter of the member states of this organization and represents approximately one fifth of the world's population. And yet, it still lacks the representation it deserves on this council. 1:20:17Copy

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    🇩🇴 Dominican Republic · Day 2Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona

    • And three things are necessary in this regards to achieve it. Renewing representation, renewing peacekeeping operations, and renewing support for developing countries. We support the UNAT initiative with a sense of conviction. However, there is no reform that can be successful without resources behind it, and that's why the Dominican Republic is complying and playing a role. 4:28:14Copy

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    🇪🇺 European Union · Day 3António Costa

    • The answer is to reform, renew, and reinvest. The UN80 initiative offers an opportunity to make the United Nations more efficient and more effective. The European Union also continues to call for a comprehensive reform of the United Nations Security Council to make it more effective, inclusive, democratic and accountable. The European Union will continue to contribute to strengthen the United Nations politically, financially and through concrete actions. 4:06:07Copy

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    🇫🇯 Fiji · Day 3Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu

    • Together, they can carry Fiji from memory to understanding and from division to trust. Mr. President, if the United Nations is to restore trust, it must also be willing to reform itself. Fiji supports the UN80 reform agenda to make the organization more coherent, efficient, and effective. But reform must be judged by a single test: what improves for people and for member states. 6:42:14Copy

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

    • We must strengthen cooperation for safe, orderly, and regular migration, protect the rights and dignity of migrants, and expand lawful pathways for labor mobility, as well as invest in young people, women, education, health, and social protection to safeguard sustainable development and lasting peace. Mr. President, The government welcomes the call for the reform of United Nations. We recognize the constraints facing the organization was limited with limited resources and increasing demands. This notwithstanding, the reforms would strengthen the capacity of United Nations to serve its member states and the people of the world better, as well as correct the historical injustice that continues to prevail. 4:46:07Copy

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    🇩🇪 Germany · Day 5Johann Wadephul

    • Faced with this question, it will not be enough to invoke what we still have or once had in the United Nations. Nor will it help if we ignore its weaknesses. What we need is honesty, realism, and cooperation. Honesty in our analysis, realism in our ambition, and cooperation as our method. 5:03:50Copy

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    🇬🇹 Guatemala · Day 4Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado

    • A country particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change knows that adaptation, risk management and the protection of rural livelihoods require national efforts, but also financing and cooperation commensurate with the needs, capable of building capacity and delivering results. Defending multilateralism does not mean defending the status quo. The United Nations must become more effective, representative, transparent and responsive to people. It must make better use of its resources, reduce duplication and respond more swiftly without weakening the purposes for which it was created. 12:10:06Copy

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    🇮🇹 Italy · Day 2Antonio Tajani

    • The United Nations cannot simply record the divisions of today. It must have the ambition to imagine the future and recognize its limitations, overcome its paralysis, and reform its instruments without abandoning its deepest raison d'etre, to be the place where conflict gives way to dialogue, confrontation to diplomacy, and fear to the search for shared solutions. The United Nations remains the most universal place for pursuing this aspiration, not because it's perfect, but because no other institution can bring together around the same table such different interests, cultures, religions, and visions of the world. It is precisely when the world is divided that the value of dialogue grows rather than diminishes. 12:15:00Copy

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    🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Day 4Mukhtar Tileuberdi

    • But to fill its potential, UN must be able to act, adapt and deliver. We fully support the UN80 initiative. The success of the reform should be measured not by what is cut or reorganized, but by whether the United Nations prevents conflicts more effectively, responds more rapidly to crisis and delivers better results for all member states. Central to this renewal is reform of the Security Council. 10:09:58Copy

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    🇰🇪 Kenya · Day 2William Samoei Ruto

    • They built a new order. Our responsibility is no less consequential today. We must not wait for another catastrophe to reform this institution, whose weaknesses we can already see. We must not ask our children to inherit wars that we can prevent, or debts that we can make sustainable, inequalities we can correct, and institutions we know no longer reflect the world we live in. 8:17:17Copy

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    🇱🇸 Lesotho · Day 4Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane

    • Mr. President, We welcome progress under the UN80 initiative and appreciate efforts to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and coherence within the UN system. As deliberations continue, reforms must remain guided by intergovernmental agreed mandates and member states' priorities. Any measures undertaken should preserve the UN's capacity to deliver across all pillars of its work and maintain meaningful impact on the ground. Mr. President, as we contemplate the future of community of nations, we must renew our collective commitment to a United Nations that is more inclusive, effective, and responsive to modern times global challenges, and one in which developing countries, particularly African nations, have a stronger voice in global decision making. 3:01:52Copy

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    🇱🇺 Luxembourg · Day 1Guillaume of Luxembourg

    • 81 years later, that promise is under considerable pressure. But it has not failed. Multilateralism may be imperfect, but disenchantment should lead us to reform, not to dismissal. The question is therefore not whether we still need multilateralism. 5:25:01Copy

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    🇲🇾 Malaysia · Day 5Mohamad Haji Hasan

    • When people are suffering and when the world looks towards this hall, will this organization still answer the call for which it was created? Actions speak louder than words, my esteemed colleagues. We must restore trust, manage transformation, reform institution that no longer serve current realities, and we must ensure that the rules of the global system apply equally to all. Malaysia will not turn away from the UN in its hour of difficulty. 7:10:04Copy

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    🇫🇲 Micronesia (Federated States of) · Day 5Aren Palik

    • Mr. President, we must implement the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index, MVI, into a modern, coherent, and responsive system that moves decisively from concept to practice. Doing so would unlock fair access to concessional financing that reflect structural vulnerabilities faced by small, fragile, and highly exposed economies, such as the small island states. Micronesia reaffirms its strong commitment to the progress of UNAD reform initiatives. In addressing the UN country team reconfiguration, we firmly believe that both the multi-country office and the resident coordinator system must remain securely in place. 48:48Copy

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    🇲🇨 Monaco · Day 4Christophe Mirmand

    • Still, the UN needs resources to function. My country fulfills its financial contributions in full and on time, and we call on all other states to do likewise. But this necessary step is not enough in the light of the changes that have to be undertaken. That is why Monaco calls on the real leaders of the United Nations to rethink the architecture of our system. 1:52:49Copy

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    🇲🇪 Montenegro · Day 2Jakov Milatović

    • Climate change is testing the resilience of states and of societies, and artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are creating risks at a speed that national frameworks alone cannot adequately address. So the answer cannot be less multilateralism. It must be more effective multilateralism. And Montenegro, therefore, strongly supports the UN reform agenda and the ambition to build a United Nations that is more effective, more agile, more accessible, more financially sustainable and fit for the challenges of our time. 10:11:58Copy

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    🇲🇿 Mozambique · Day 2Daniel Francisco Chapo

    • He leaves behind a robust organization that is prepared to a better respond to the challenges of our time. His legacy is, in our point of view, unquestionable positive. and marked by transformative achievements of this organization. Thus, the best tribute we can pay to his legacy is to continue the work of strengthening this organization because no generation is going to inherit United Nations as a finished legacy. 8:46:54Copy

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    🇵🇱 Poland · Day 2Karol Nawrocki

    • We need an organization that can respond to violations of law, enforce principles, and prevent impunity. UN reform cannot be reduced to mere declarations. It must mean real effectiveness and accountability, including in the face of new challenges such as the demographic crisis or the development of artificial intelligence, which is outpacing existing rules and testing the limits of our responsibility. We are at a turning point. 7:08:14Copy

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    🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Day 4Godwin Friday

    • And that is only the beginning. As a global institution, the United Nations is fundamentally an inclusive space where every nation can play a role in addressing our common problems. A retreat from multilateralism undermines the interests of small states and, indeed, of everyone. But we acknowledge that our support for the United Nations must be matched by our willingness to embrace reform to make it more effective. 8:06:48Copy

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

    • Over the last decade, we achieved an enormous milestone. I am proud to report to you today that the United Nations achieved gender parity for the first time in history across all senior leadership, all headquarters, and all professional staff. It happened because we removed barriers, we challenged assumptions, and refused to accept that power must look as it always was. At every step, we have never compromised on quality and competence. 40:19Copy

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    🇷🇸 Serbia · Day 2Aleksandar Vučić

    • We must anticipate the consequences of a world in which force is once again being presented ever more openly as the most reliable instrument of policy, in which military budgets are growing, conflicts are multiplying, arms control mechanisms are weakening, and channels of communication are disappearing precisely when they are needed most. We must therefore ask the essential question, where is the United Nations in such a world? The Security Council is often blocked precisely in the crisis in which it should be most active. Other parts of the UN system face financial pressures, overlapping mandates, bureaucratization, and the justified demand of member states to see more concrete results. 8:35:09Copy

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    🇸🇨 Seychelles · Day 1Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie

    • Mr. Secretary General, as this is the final General Assembly you will address in your current capacity, Seychelles extends its profound gratitude for your decade of dedicated stewardship. You have consistently championed a United Nations that is more effective, responsive, and grounded in the needs of the people we serve. Mr. President, the theme of this session strikes at the core of our contemporary global crisis. Trust has eroded, yet structural transformation is urgently upon us. 8:56:56Copy

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    🇸🇬 Singapore · Day 5Vivian Balakrishnan

    • I welcome the progress of the UN80 initiative, but reform must be strategic, not merely fiscal. Reform must strengthen the equal standing of all members. The goal is not a smaller UN for its own sake, but one that delivers better and more equitably. In this session, we will appoint the 10th Secretary-General of the UN. 4:32:04Copy

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    🇸🇮 Slovenia · Day 3Janez Janša

    • I therefore propose two things. First, this organization should strengthen transparency around its responses to the crisis. We should establish an independent mechanism, answerable to this Assembly as a whole, that annually compares the scale, duration and severity of major crises with the scale and nature of the international response. Not to dictate political verdicts, but to make it impossible for us to remain unaware of our own patterns of selectivity. 10:22:41Copy

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    🇸🇷 Suriname · Day 1Jennifer Geerlings-Simons

    • We also remember with warmth your visit to Suriname, expressing the importance of the United Nations engagement with our country and the Caribbean region. We wish you well in the part before you. Mister President, standing before this assembly, I am reminded that while some efforts have been made from this rostrum over the past year, these have not yet matched the scale of the challenges confronting our world. We will have to increase and strengthen efforts and commitment to the process of transformation and strengthening of the UN in order to restore trust that our organization will really be capable of delivering peace, inclusion, and development in the world. 7:21:06Copy

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    🇨🇭 Switzerland · Day 1Guy Parmelin

    • We need institutions capable of dealing with issues that transcend national borders. We need multilateralism. But multilateralism will only retain its credibility if it is also able to evolve. Switzerland therefore supports efforts to reform the UN system as part of the UN80 initiative. 8:52:06Copy

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    🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Day 5Sirojiddin Muhriddin

    • Excellencies, There is a wider lesson here. Peace requires effective institutions, and international cooperation requires an effective United Nations. This is why Tajikistan supports the ongoing UN reform process. Reform is not an end in itself. 5:44:51Copy

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    🇹🇷 Türkiye · Day 1Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    • Today we may live in comfort, far away from conflict zones and from crisis areas. But none of us knows what tomorrow will bring or what might happen to us. It is for this reason that I think that this year's General Assembly theme is particularly timely and pertinent because it focuses on restoring trust in the international system. We support the sincere efforts of the Secretary General in this regard, including efforts around the UN 80 initiative. 3:02:19Copy

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    🇺🇸 United States of America · Day 1Donald Trump

    • So, Melania, thank you very much. Great job. Great job you're doing. Led by Ambassador Michael Waltz here at the United Nations, we have also worked with many countries in this room to implement the most sweeping U.N. reforms in history. 2:15:04Copy

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    🇻🇳 Viet Nam · Day 1To Lam

    • It is therefore my belief that the theme of this session, restoring trust, managing transformation, a UN that delivers for all, aptly reflects the urgent demands of the time. Distinguished guests, From the losses of the Second World War, humanity created the UN with the aspiration to prevent wars, safeguard peace, promote cooperation and place relations among nations on the foundation of common principles. Over the past eight decades, despite its limitations, the UN has helped sustain dialogue, advance decolonization, uphold the right of peoples to self-determination and support development. This must be preserved and carried forward Our institutions must be reformed to keep pace with the times, while fundamental principles of the UN Charter must be respected and reinforced. 9:29:19Copy

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    🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Day 3Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa

    • I wish to thank Ms. Annalena Baerbock for her effective leadership of the 80th session and her contribution to the UN80 reform process. Zimbabwe also pays tribute to Mr. Antonio Guterres in his final general debate as Secretary-General. We commend his defense of multilateralism as well as efforts to advance dialogue for conflict prevention and resolution, sustainable development, and the pact for the future. Mr. President, we meet during a pivotal moment when the world is facing numerous interconnected and complex crises. 17:59Copy

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    🇨🇦 Canada · Day 5Anita Anand

    • At a time when we are forming new coalitions, we should also strengthen the multilateral system. This is why Canada and our partners throughout the entire world have started a new initiative entitled Partners for Multilateralism. This initiative seeks to support United Nations reform and reform of other institutions to make them more representative, more effective, and more trustworthy. 7:39:26Copy

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    🇦🇩 Andorra · Day 2Xavier Espot Zamora

    • This organization exists because the international community understood that the destiny of peoples is shared. No nation can prosper while ignoring the suffering of others, because the security of one depends on the security of all. In this regard, I would like, first and foremost, to commend the excellent UN80 initiative, which proposes improvements to the work of the Secretariat, a stronger mandate life cycle, and simplification of structures to avoid duplication and overlap. Secondly, I would like to emphasize the need for reform of the Security Council so that the UN can reflect the realities of today rather than those of 80 years ago. 11:37:00Copy

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    🇧🇳 Brunei Darussalam · Day 5Prince 'Abdul Mateen

    • Reform must not become an exercise in rearranging structures, or confidence outside this hall continues to erode. Transformation must strengthen the United Nations' ability to prevent crises, respond effectively to member states, and deliver outcomes that make a meaningful difference to people's lives. Brunei Darussalam therefore supports initiatives such as the Pact of the Future and the UN80 initiative. Ultimately, reform must achieve more than efficiency. 3:35:03Copy

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    🇧🇮 Burundi · Day 2Évariste Ndayishimiye

    • We therefore strongly reaffirm the need for reform of the United Nations Security Council in order to allow for permanent African representation and more equitable participation by the continent in the international community's decision-making mechanisms. In this regard, Burundi believes that discussions on reform must also address the financial viability of the United Nations system by strengthening the predictability, transparency, and sustainability of its financing. It would not be coherent to entrust the organization with ever greater responsibilities without guaranteeing it the resources necessary for their implementation. We therefore call on member states, particularly the wealthiest, to demonstrate responsibility and solidarity in order to preserve the organization's financial stability. 1:06:38Copy

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    🇨🇲 Cameroon · Day 5Lejeune Mbella Mbella

    • These climate events prevent many populations from benefiting from the marvelous technological progress that we have made. President, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, in this situation, it is our collective duty to work together in order to overcome these challenges and effectively respond to the expectations of our peoples. And the United Nations offers us, in this case, an ideal framework to engage in discussions and find compromises, find consensus, in order to seek solutions to these challenges that concern all of us. Cameroon is firmly committed to this path and we support the UN80 initiative as well as any other initiative that could contribute to strengthening cooperation and international solidarity. 9:22:06Copy

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    🇨🇳 China · Day 5Han Zheng

    • China supports the UN in reforming and improving itself. It should advance the UN80 initiative and enhance the performance of its bodies, rather than merely cut its budgets and mandates. It should effectively address global challenges, including climate change and public health security, improve and increase the representation and voice of the Global South. China pays high tribute to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who will complete his term soon. 28:07Copy

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    🇰🇲 Comoros · Day 3Azali Assoumani

    • make this event a resounding success. Mr. President, in conclusion, I call for ambitious action to restore confidence amongst our nations and do it through fairness, justice and solidarity. Let us transform the United Nations, our common home, into a more credible organization, and a source of hope for the future. It is only then that we will truly empower ourselves to act in all humanity, for humanity, in all of its differences and diversity. 3:00:00Copy

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    🇭🇷 Croatia · Day 1Andrej Plenković

    • Our responsibility is to govern them so that change expands human freedom and security instead of weakening them. The United Nations must begin with its own transformation. Croatia supports a UN that is more effective, accountable and financially sustainable, and stronger across all three pillars: peace and security, sustainable development and, of course, human rights. Reform must also produce a more representative and effective Security Council. 11:25:07Copy

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    🇨🇾 Cyprus · Day 2Nikos Christodoulides

    • The UN80 initiative is an important part of this effort. The Pact for the Future and the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals are also part of the effort to ensure that multilateral cooperation can respond to the needs of our time. This moment of reform also comes as the UN Secretary-General approaches the completion of a decade leading this organization. Cyprus wishes to acknowledge his leadership during a period of extraordinary global developments, his steadfast commitment to multilateralism, and his effort to strengthen and reform the UN. 4:08:30Copy

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    🇨🇿 Czechia · Day 2Petr Pavel

    • We expect her or him to carry forward the UN80 agenda and turn reforms into results. The success of UN reforms will be judged not by new structures or new language, but by whether the multinational system can deliver, uphold international law, and make its rules matter. The future legitimacy of the United Nations will depend on it. Nowhere is this more important than in peace and security. 2:14:21Copy

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

    • This ought to be the ambition of the United Nations. Mr. President, we cannot speak of restoring trust toward the UN, let alone of a transformation As long as the UN continues to reflect a world that is ceased to exist, the world of 1945 no longer exists. Digital revolution, energy transition, and climate dysregulation are now altering equilibria. And yet the institutions charged with managing these changes too often reflect an order that no longer exists. 11:46:51Copy

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

    • It's precisely for this reason that we want an organization that's able to respond to the challenges of the world today, not of 1945. supporting the organization that the United Nations also needs to involve a willingness to transform the United Nations and that's why we support the UN80 initiative and pose an essential question, what United Nations of the world needs today? We need an organization that's more efficient with the ability to prevent conflicts, resolve crises and support states to challenges that didn't exist when the organization was created. An organization whose legitimacy depends not only on the decision that we adopt, but the way that they adopt. 5:04:30Copy

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    🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Day 2Taye Atske-Selassie Amde

    • Nevertheless, Some of the initiatives we see from the global south give a beacon of hope that we indeed can attain technological advancement through foresight and leadership. A case in point is Ethiopia's initiative of 5 million quarters program and the soon to be commissioned University of Artificial Intelligence reaffirms that our continent is ready to build the future. Mr. President, Ethiopia remains steadfast, and it is believed that the United Nations must be fundamentally reformed to best address the shifting global challenge. The UN reform must reflect our highest aspiration to witness an organization anchored in true equality and justice. 6:33:50Copy

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    🇫🇮 Finland · Day 1Alexander Stubb

    • We need a dignified foreign policy, and that starts here in the United Nations. Now, ladies and gentlemen, let me conclude with the following remarks. I would like to thank Secretary-General Guterres for his service and his dedication to reforming and rationalizing the UN system. This work must continue. 5:14:08Copy

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

    • Our aim remains to build an open and secure digital ecosystem that respects freedoms and is fully consistent with our international commitments. Mr. President, if the United Nations is to deliver results for all, it cannot ignore historical debts. Gabon therefore welcomes the adoption of UN General Assembly resolution 80/250 on the African slave trade, characterizing it as the gravest crime against humanity. An organization that delivers results must also be able to reform itself from within. 7:33:20Copy

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    🇬🇪 Georgia · Day 3Irakli Kobakhidzhe

    • In this regard, the UN80 initiative provides a valuable opportunity to strengthen the effectiveness and capacity of the United Nations, while further enhancing its transparency and accountability. Georgia stands ready to work constructively with international partners and contribute actively to this process. We firmly support reforms that will strengthen the organization's capacity to deliver better and become more results-oriented. The choice we make today will shape the world we leave to future generations. 9:28:50Copy

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    🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau · Day 4Ilídio Vieira Té

    • Ladies and gentlemen, the United Nations remains an essential pillar of multilateralism and a privileged forum for dialogue, cooperation, and the search for collective solutions to the challenges facing humanity. It must be acknowledged, however, that in certain circumstances, the expectations that peoples have placed in it have not always been met with a response commensurate with their aspirations. This reality should not lead us to question the foundations of the multilateral system, but rather to strengthen the effectiveness, representativeness and capacity for action of international institutions. It is incumbent upon member states to renew their commitments to multilateralism that is more effective, more inclusive, and more responsive to the aspirations of peoples. 7:33:00Copy

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    🇮🇩 Indonesia · Day 5Sugiono

    • And it allows us to combine our capacities when no country can act effectively alone. This is why Indonesia continues to believe in the United Nations. But believing in the United Nations also means believing that it must evolve with the world it serves. Let us be clear that the answer to imperfect multilateralism is not less multilateralism. 9:04:12Copy

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

    • We would be remiss not to applaud the efforts, good offices, and initiatives of the Secretary-General aimed at strengthening multilateralism and that include initiatives such as UN80 and the Pact for the Future, as well as the ongoing efforts to address global challenges, crises, conflicts, wars, climate change, and terrorism, as well as the efforts to assist member states in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and to strengthen international cooperation on artificial intelligence. We hope that these efforts will continue beyond the conclusion of the Secretary-General's term in a manner to guarantee the continuity of work to reform and develop the organization's bodies enhance its effectiveness and performance in discharging its responsibilities. In this context, we emphasize that Security Council reform and the Security Council is the body charged with maintaining international peace and security has become essential to keep pace with the significant increase in the number of member states and the changes in international relations since the establishment of the organization. There is an urgent need for the Council to become more representative, effective and transparent in carrying out its responsibilities. 7:51:34Copy

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    🇱🇦 Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Day 5Thongsavanh Phomvihane

    • Mr. President, the Lao PDR welcome the UN's 80th initiative to enhance the coherence, transparency, and effectiveness of the UN system. Systematic reform must ensure a balanced approach across the three pillars of organizations: peace and security, sustainable development, and human rights. The implementation of the Pact of the Future and the Global Digital Compact must focus on narrowing the digital divide. Artificial intelligence and digital technologies must serve human development, strengthen local technical capacities, and respect national development priorities. 2:09:24Copy

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    🇱🇷 Liberia · Day 3Joseph Nyuma Boakai

    • Reforming global governance, correcting historic injustice. Mr. President, 80 years of patience is enough. The time for structural reform is now. While we welcome the UN80 reform agenda to make this organization agile, efficient, and accountable, true reform must address the core structural issue. 3:12:34Copy

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    🇱🇹 Lithuania · Day 1Gitanas Nausėda

    • Ladies and gentlemen, the credibility of the United Nations depends on its ability to respond firmly to aggression, unlawful conquest, forced deportations, and crimes against humanity. and also to coordinate the global response to the growth of AI. I am grateful to the Secretary-General, His Excellency Antonio Guterres, for his long-lasting service and his focus on reforming the United Nations into a more effective, modern, and responsive organization. This is the correct path to follow. 4:18:23Copy

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    🇲🇱 Mali · Day 6Abdoulaye Diop

    • So, migration, mobility is a benefit for humanity. We call, therefore, for respect of the rights of the migrants in accordance with international conventions. Mr. President, By way of conclusion, Mali recalls that the multilateral framework, which is embodied by the United Nations, stands at a crossroads. The time has come for us to assume our shared responsibility for a reformed United Nations, refounded, I was going to say, that's how vast the scope of work is, a United Nations that is more just, more representative, and truly the service of all of the people in the world without distinction. 39:16Copy

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    🇲🇷 Mauritania · Day 4Mohamed Salem Merzoug

    • I am convinced that his great experience and acumen will contribute in the successful conduct of the work of this session. I would also like to express my sincere thanks to Her Excellency Annalena Baerbock for the excellent stewardship of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. I would like to thank His Excellency, Mr. Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, for his concerted effort to develop the United Nations and promote its role. Mr. President, it is my honor to convey to this distinguished gathering the greetings of His Excellency, the President of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, and he wishes all the success for this session. 10:27:33Copy

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    🇲🇽 Mexico · Day 4Roberto Velasco Álvarez

    • aware that this position would not be sufficient without institutions that are able to uphold it, Mexico is working to strengthen this house and make it in particular in an environment of global polarization. Mexico and Norway founded the UNAT global group supporting the reforms undertaken by the Secretary General, focused on building with practical actions a more effective and transparent United Nations. With Qatar, Norway and Switzerland, we are engaging in a strengthening of the mediation capacities of the organization. Each and every conflict that diplomacy can prevent is worth more than all of those that force seeks to resolve. 11:00:45Copy

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    🇲🇳 Mongolia · Day 1Khurelsukh Ukhnaa

    • Mangoe shares the view expressed by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his annual report on the work of the organization that, in a world marked by turbulence, division and uncertainty, the United Nations is more necessary than ever. Hence, Mongolia underscores the tangible progress made under Secretary-General's UN80 initiative to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the United Nations in response to the challenges of our time and reaffirms its active support for this initiative. The effectiveness of the United Nations, the decisiveness of its actions, and the ability of nations to unite their efforts will ultimately depend upon us, the Member States. Mongolia is confident that the soon-to-be-appointed Secretary-General will steadfastly uphold the principles and purposes of the United Nations and international law, ensure that the voices and positions of all Member States are equally heard and reflected, and provide strong leadership in restoring trust and managing transformation within the UN. 6:42:44Copy

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    🇳🇷 Naoero · Day 1David Ranibok Adeang

    • My delegation assures you of our full support, and we thank your predecessor for the stewardship of the 80th session. We also pay tribute to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, This is the last General Debate of his tenure, and my country records its gratitude for a decade in which the smaller states were heard more often than before. I have traveled far to speak on matters that may seem distinct, but are united by a single fundamental principle: the right of every people to be treated as an equal and to speak for itself. Mr. President, there are moments in the life of a nation when its people are called to remember who they have always been. 9:10:48Copy

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    🇳🇱 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Day 3Rob Jetten

    • This week is the perfect example of that. And I realize that the United Nations does not carry the most positive associations for everyone. And indeed, there is much that can and must be improved. But let us not forget what lay behind the founding of the United Nations over 80 years ago, the realization that doing nothing had led to the darkest chapters in human history. 9:52:43Copy

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    🇲🇰 North Macedonia · Day 4Hristijan Mickoski

    • That is why reform of the United Nations is necessary, so that the organization can become more capable. so that it can deliver greater results and certainly not to replace the responsibility of national states, but to act where a collective action is needed. Multilateralism does not begin in New York. It begins when the quality of the states that came to New York. 3:50:59Copy

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     🇵🇰 Pakistan · Day 4Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif

     • We will restore trust when those who failed the climate, those who fueled the climate crisis, protect those who suffer most from its devastating consequences. And above all, trust will be restored when the guns are silenced and replaced by handshakes, embraces, and smiles. Mr. President, the UN80 initiative should make the United Nations stronger, more coherent, and more effective. The Security Council must become more representative, democratic, and accountable. 5:26:28Copy

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     🇵🇦 Panama · Day 2José Raúl Mulino Quintero

     • I wish to reiterate to this General Assembly the need for Latin America and the Caribbean to have places with greater decision-making power in the Security Council, specifically a permanent seat, a permanent member of the Security Council of this organization. We are a region that plays a protagonist role in food, minerals, biodiversity, and a deep-seated belief in peace and integration. Our contribution is without doubt. The world doesn't need less UN, it needs a United Nations that works better, that acts with preventive diplomacy and that can yield positive results in the short term. 6:22:35Copy

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     🇵🇹 Portugal · Day 3Luís Montenegro

     • This greater representativeness of the UN and its bodies must also extend to language. Portuguese is the most widely spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere, with nearly 300 million speakers worldwide. It therefore deserves a more prominent role in the United Nations. It is a language of culture and business that, across four continents, unites the members of the community of Portuguese speaking countries, which celebrates this year its 30th anniversary and serves as a forum for dialogue and cooperation founded on a common history and a shared language. 6:07:45Copy

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     🇰🇷 Republic of Korea · Day 1Lee Jae Myung

     • We must reduce duplication across organizations and programs, accelerate decision-making, and direct limited resources where they are needed most. In this spirit, the Republic of Korea supports the UN80 initiative, which will improve efficiency, prioritize field operations, and deliver greater results. We also support the reform of the UN Security Council so that it operates in a more effective, democratic, and accountable manner. The Republic of Korea will live up to its responsibility and position to deliver results that can be vividly felt by people around the world across the UN's three pillars of peace, development, and human rights. 7:11:46Copy

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     🇲🇩 Republic of Moldova · Day 5Vasile Tofan

     • And because we believe small states should help shape the international system, not simply depend on it, Moldova is honored to present its candidacy for the presidency of the 82nd session of the United Nations General Assembly. We want to contribute to a UN that is more effective, more inclusive, and focused on results. We live in a world with plenty of reasons for pessimism. Moldova chooses something else, not naive optimism, Not the belief that problems disappear if we refuse to see them. 1:38:54Copy

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     🇼🇸 Samoa · Day 4Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo

     • For Samoa, Multilateralism remains the cornerstone of our international engagement. Only through genuine cooperation and mutual trust can we craft solutions that no single nation could achieve alone. The UN80 initiative has merits, but also its risks, if not fully assessed and understood. Any reform must strengthen delivery on the ground by eliminating duplication, improving coherence, and accelerating impact. 8:45:28Copy

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     🇸🇲 San Marino · Day 5Luca Beccari

     • This is why San Marino strongly support the Secretary General UN initiative. The United Nation must become more effective more efficient and more responsive. And reform must include the Security Council. The Council must better reflect today's world. 6:28:54Copy

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     🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · Day 1Julius Maada Bio

     • Accessible and predictable climate finance, support for adaptation, and effective arrangement for loss and damage are obligations of justice. They are also investment in global stability Fairness in transformation depends on the institutions that govern it. Sierra Leone, therefore, supports the UNH initiative and wider reforms that make this organization more effective, accountable, and responsive. Efficiency matters, and reform must preserve the capacity to act. 7:55:39Copy

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     🇸🇧 Solomon Islands · Day 4Matthew Cooper Wale

     • to graduate from LDC status with confidence, to strengthen the foundations of our economy, and to ensure that development delivers lasting opportunities for every Solomon Islander. Mr. President, as the UN marks its 81st anniversary, it must continue to evolve to meet today's challenges while remaining faithful to its founding principles. The UN80 reform process must strengthen the organization's effectiveness and relevance without diminishing its presence, services, or support in the most vulnerable regions where assistance is needed most. Reform must enhance delivery, not reduce it. 4:15:33Copy

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     🇪🇸 Spain · Day 2Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón

     • They asked us to fulfill it. They asked us to defend it and for us to turn back to it in times of uncertainty and extraordinary difficulty. And today, is one of those times and therefore it's our duty to rise to the courage and the ambition present in this text in the United Nations Charter and this is why ladies and gentlemen we need to reform the Security Council so that all of the regions in the world have fair representation and so that we can do away with the right of veto of the permanent members because as the UN Charter sets out no country should be judged in its own case, no matter how powerful they are. We therefore need to strengthen all of the other main bodies and reorganise the agency's funds and programmes and provide them with more resources and more executive capacity so that they can have a more decisive impact on the great challenges that beset humanity. 11:15:35Copy

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     🇹🇭 Thailand · Day 3Anutin Charnvirakul

     • They are already at the forefront of this organization's work from development to peacekeeping. As the UN considers its next Secretary General, maybe it is time that this representation be reflected at the highest level. Representation and effectiveness must advance together. We commend Mr. Secretary General Antonio Guterres for his commitment to reform, including through the UN80 initiative. 9:10:16Copy

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     🇹🇬 Togo · Day 4Robert Komlan Edo Dussey

     • Mr. President, Togo supports efforts as part of the UN80 initiative to improve the effectiveness, the coherence and the accountability of our organization. Mr. President, economic and climate vulnerabilities are having an impact on stability and security. In Africa, these are coupled with ongoing security challenges and can fuel tensions and conflict. This is why development questions, questions of peace and security must be tackled in a complementary and interlinked fashion. 12:34:19Copy

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

     • Mr. President, the Secretary-General's UN80 initiative to make the organisation more efficient and better equipped for the future is necessary and timely. Indeed, today, as we listened to President Trump, the Honourable President shared with us some of the initiatives for reform that was taking place and will take place here at the UN. Reform should reduce duplication, strengthen accountability, retire mandates that no longer serve their purpose, and direct scarce resources towards measurable results. At the same time, reform should preserve the organization's ability to deliver across its three pillars of peace and security, development and human rights, and should not make it more difficult for small states to participate meaningfully in its work. 10:31:19Copy

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

     • That is the level of ambition that we need now to renew the UN for our times, to tackle challenges like improving global health and preventing future pandemics, to end the wars that are causing so much suffering and instability, including the terrible conflict in Sudan, and to tackle climate change. The climate crisis is now a national security threat for countries around the world, as this summer of extreme heat, wildfires, and floods has proved beyond doubt. Britain will continue to lead with others to fight this threat, to protect our children and grandchildren, to protect the natural world, and also to seize the benefits for jobs, growth, and reindustrialization that the clean energy transition can bring. So we must raise our sights. 11:05:32Copy

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     🇹🇿 United Republic of Tanzania · Day 1Deogratius Ndejembi

     • These challenges should remind us of a need for a stronger and much more coordinated United Nations. Therefore, the theme of this session, that is, restoring trust, Managing transformation, a United Nation that delivers for all, is timely for it requires us to revert to the founding principles of maintaining peace and restoring trust. Managing transformation requires reforming the UN to meet the realities of our time. In that regard, I commend our illustrious Secretary-General, His Excellency Antonio Guterres for championing the UN80 initiative that aims to advance the transformation agenda. 9:43:01Copy

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     🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Day 2Saida Mirziyoyeva

     • We need the United Nations capable of implementing decisions, not just making them. We need the United Nations where voices of every country are heard. Uzbekistan supports the UN Secretary-General's efforts within the framework of the UN80 initiative aimed at adapting the organization to modern requirements. We support expanding the composition of the UN Security Council based on modern realities. 12:31:31Copy

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116. 
     🇿🇲 Zambia · Day 5Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe

     • Zambia welcomes the UN80 initiative as an opportunity to strengthen multilateralism and build a more effective, efficient, equitable and fit-for-purpose United Nations, and acknowledge the commendable progress achieved so far. In the face of rising geopolitical tensions and protracted conflicts, we reaffirm our commitment to dialogue, diplomacy, and the peaceful resolution of disputes in accordance with the UN Charter and international law. We further support African-led solutions and stronger cooperation between the UN, the African Union and regional organizations to advance conflict prevention, peace building and collective security. Conclusion. 8:52:30Copy

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117. 
     🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda · Day 6Walton Alfonso Webson

     • The UN80 reform process must be judged by whether this organization serves people better. 4:45:31Copy
     • Madam President, the United Nations reform program must extend 4:59:54Copy
     • Let the United Nations reform strengthen multilateralism. 5:04:07Copy

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118. 
     🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire · Day 3Tiémoko Meyliet Koné

     • This year's theme therefore aptly captures the expectations of our time. It calls on us specifically to restore trust in our collective capacity to respond effectively to global challenges and to support the current changes and reforms of the United Nations architecture so that our organization is once again able to deliver concrete solutions to the concerns of all peoples. For Cote d'Ivoire, this means reinvigorating multilateralism and consequently restoring diplomacy's rightful place and credibility so that it can 6:59:07Copy

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119. 
     🇺🇳 President of the General Assembly (closing) · Day 6Dr. Khalilur Rahman

     • Excellencies, the world leaders also spoke clearly about reforming the United Nations. 7:08:09Copy
     • We will build on the UN 80 initiative and the mandate implementation review. 7:08:33Copy
     • No reform agenda, including UN80, is complete without addressing this longstanding inequity in the Security Council. 7:09:00Copy

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120. 
     🇺🇬 Uganda · Day 2Jessica Rose Epel Alupo

     • While acknowledging its vital achievements and convening power, We must continue to reform the organization to ensure it becomes more transparent, cost-effective, efficient, and representative. Through renewed international cooperation, the UN can truly deliver on its founding promises for all humanity. I thank you for your kind attention. 10:57:13Copy

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121. 
     🇳🇿 New Zealand · Day 6Victoria Louise Hallum

     • Third, we ask the new Secretary-General to maintain momentum and ambition on UN reform. 4:16:04Copy
     • coupled with the courage to make bold and consequent decisions on UN reform that can deliver a more effective organization. 4:21:40Copy

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122. 
     🇩🇿 Algeria · Day 6Ahmed Attaf

     • Reforming the United Nations system is no longer an institutional luxury, nor is it a choice that can be postponed indefinitely. 1:25:53Copy

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123. 
     🇧🇯 Benin · Day 6Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba

     • It is in this spirit that Benin supports the efforts undertaken within the framework of the UN80 initiative. 6:46:29Copy

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124. 
     🇩🇰 Denmark · Day 6Christina Markus Lassen

     • Denmark also strongly supports the UN80 reform process. 5:57:03Copy

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125. 
     🇸🇻 El Salvador · Day 6Alexandra Hill Tinoco

     • El Salvador believes that the reform of the United Nations should not be restricted to reorganizing its structures. 2:04:42Copy

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126. 
     🇲🇼 Malawi · Day 6George Chapatula Chaponda

     • We call for an urgent, comprehensive reform of the United Nations Security Council to correct the historical injustice done to Africa. 2:19:54Copy

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127. 
     🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Day 6Vijitha Herath

     • In this regard, Sri Lanka supports the UN80 initiative as an opportunity to renew and strengthen the United Nations and advance meaningful reform. 2:50:21Copy

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128. 
     🇸🇩 Sudan · Day 6Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim

     • Hence the need for United Nations reform, particularly reform of the Security Council. 3:16:02Copy

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129. 
     🇻🇺 Vanuatu · Day 6Odo Tevi

     • The UN80 reforms currently implemented are paramount to rebuild trust again at the United Nations and therefore needs to be managed diligently. 6:36:01Copy

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