Analysis

H.E. Mr. Gustavo Petro, President of the Republic of Colombia

“capital or life, my friends, greed or life, barbarism or local and global democracy, freedom or death, as Bolívar used to say”

His Excellency Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke Whitaker, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua

“Never on our knees! Never giving in to the Enemies of Peace and of the Common Good.”

His Excellency Bassolma Bazie, Minister of State of Burkina Faso

“Yes, Mr. President, we are the WAGNER of Burkina Faso! Yes, these brave FDS and VDP are the WAGNER of Burkina Faso!!”

His Excellency Gustavo Petro Urrego, President of Colombia

“I come from a country of bloodstained beauty.”

Gustavo Petro Urrego, President

“I come from the land of yellow butterflies and magic. Water cascades down the lush green mountains and valleys — but so do torrents of blood.”

H.E. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel

“They beheaded men. They raped women. They burned babies, alive. They burned babies alive in front of their parents. What monsters.”

His Excellency Gustavo Petro Urrego, President of Colombia

“The bells are already tolling for the whole planet, for you, for us, for life and humanity, as Ernest Hemingway would say.”

His Excellency Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine

“For God's sake, then who has killed more than 15,000 children and an equal number of women and elderly among our people, and continues to kill? Answer me!”

His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Türkiye

“Hind Rajab was only 6 years old... she waited for a helping hand to reach out to her for 12 days, saying, 'Will you come to pick me up? I am scared!'”

His Excellency Denis Ronaldo Moncada Colindres, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua

“The Love that is stronger than Hatred and that conquers everything and is capable of everything...”

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President

“There is a man who was castrated before the murder, and this is not the first case.”

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister

“If we do not control this fire, it will burn us all down.”

His Majesty Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein, King of Jordan

“Right now, they are asking whether we will stand by as parents watch their children waste away, as doctors watch their patients die for lack of basic medical supplies”

Message from the People and Government of Nicaragua (delivered on behalf of the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity; Nicaragua's delegation to the 80th session was led by H.E. Denis Rolando Moncada Colindres, Minister for Foreign Affairs)

“Struggle, Struggle, Struggle, Triumph, Triumph, Triumph! Homeland and Dignity! Homeland and Humanity!”

His Excellency Yvan Gil Pinto, Minister of the People's Power for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela

“The greatest crime of extermination and genocide since the one committed by Hitler in the Second World War is currently being perpetrated.”

Alexander de Croo, Prime Minister

“There were cuts and lacerations. There was a piece of flesh torn off from her ribs. Half of her nails were torn off. Her leg was shot. They tortured her and most likely raped her.”

Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister

“How is he going to explain to mothers that they are going to lose their sons, to wives that they will lose their husbands and to children that they will lose their fathers to a meaningless war?”

Abdoulaye Maiga, Prime Minister

“The French authorities, deeply anti-French for having denied universal moral values and betrayed the serious humanistic heritage of the philosophers of the Enlightenment, have turned into a junta in the service of obscurantism.”

Denis Ronaldo Moncada Colindres, Minister of Foreign Affairs

“It is time to say, “enough” to the lack of common sense, compassion and spirituality, to the appalling and utter disregard of the human condition and soul.”

Mahmoud Abbas, President

“They take our rain, and they sell it back to us.”

H.E. Mr. Anthony Laurent Saint-Cyr, President of the Presidential Transitional Council of the Republic of Haiti

“a contemporary Guernica; a human tragedy at the gates of the Americas; just four hours' flight from here!”

His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein

“Palestinians are martyred and injured and their bodies mutilated, again and again.”

H.E. Dr. Terrance M. Drew, Prime Minister of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis

“Imagine an elder fisherman, hands like weathered rope, watching the reef that used to cradle his nets die away until there is nothing left to catch but memories.”

H.E. Dr. Ralph E. Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

“Surely, the hottest part of hell is reserved for these perpetrators of genocide and those who are complicit in it!”

H.E. Prof. Robert Dussey, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and Togolese Abroad

“Genocide, genocide, genocide, genocide, genocide, genocide.”