Congo
A combined view of Congo's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
Compare with another country →Speech history
Congo's General Assembly rhetoric has remained consistently multilateralist across fifteen years, with a stable emphasis on African regional cooperation and UN-centered solutions averaging 79 out of 100 on multilateralism scales. Emotional intensity and self-directed accountability have shown notable volatility, spiking sharply in 2022 (emotional intensity 88) and again in 2024–2025 (78–88), though concrete policy commitments and self-accountability have generally remained modest, with recent years (2022–2023) showing modest improvements in acknowledging Congo's own environmental and peacebuilding initiatives. The arc suggests a speaker growing more passionate and morally urgent in tone while still balancing diplomatic reserve with selective but increasing willingness to reference national commitments.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2007 | Very High | Low | High | Medium |
| 2008 | High | Low | High | Medium |
| 2009 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2011 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2013 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2014 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2015 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2016 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2019 | Very High | High | Medium | Low |
| 2020 | Very High | Low | Low | Low |
| 2022 | High | Very High | Medium | Medium |
| 2023 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2024 | High | High | Medium | Low |
| 2025 | Very High | High | Medium | Low |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Congo demonstrates broad commitment to international legal frameworks, having ratified 22 of 24 tracked treaties while signing but not ratifying two. The country shows particularly strong engagement with environmental agreements, having ratified all nine tracked climate, biodiversity, and pollution conventions including the Paris Agreement and Kyoto Protocol, aligning with its speech emphasis on environmental and climate justice. Congo has also ratified all five tracked human rights and international justice instruments, including the Rome Statute and core UN human rights conventions, though it remains unsigned on the Arms Trade Treaty and has not ratified the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatySigned, not ratified
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsRatified
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryRatified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtRatified
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeSigned, not ratified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Congo votes with overwhelming consensus, recording yes votes in 77% of all General Assembly votes (4,221 of 5,458) with only 53 dissenting votes across five decades. Its rare dissents are scattered across decades (1971, 1980, 2018, 2019) and lack a clear thematic pattern, including isolated opposition to resolutions on industrial development cooperation, chemical weapons implementation, and early UN environmental initiatives, suggesting Congo aligns with broad international majorities while occasionally departing from consensus in ways that do not reflect consistent ideological positioning.
Notable dissents from consensus
Industrial development cooperation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2018-12-20 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2019-12-12 · voted N · 95% voted yes
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1971-12-20 · voted N · 92% voted yes
Comprehensive study of the question of honoraria payable to members of organs and subsidary organs of the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1980-12-17 · voted N · 90% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.649 (Medium), ranked #138 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
1990–2023