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Dominican Republic
A combined view of Dominican Republic'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
The Dominican Republic's General Assembly rhetoric has evolved from emphasizing multilateral institutional reform and shared responsibility (2006–2009) toward a more self-assertive, domestically-grounded approach after 2014. Early speeches (2006–2012) were marked by high emotional intensity and calls for global financial and development reforms, but with limited self-accountability; from 2014 onward, the country increasingly highlighted concrete national achievements in education, health, and development while maintaining strong multilateral engagement. Recent years (2020–2025) show a sustained emphasis on multilateralism paired with forceful regional diplomacy on Haiti and Venezuela, reflecting both institutional commitment and protective national interests.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
| 2007 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2008 | High | High | Very High | Medium |
| 2009 | High | Very High | High | Very Low |
| 2011 | High | Medium | Very High | Medium |
| 2012 | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2014 | Medium | High | High | High |
| 2015 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2016 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2018 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2019 | Medium | Medium | High | High |
| 2020 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2021 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2022 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2023 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2024 | High | High | High | High |
| 2025 | High | High | High | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →The Dominican Republic demonstrates comprehensive commitment to international law across all tracked treaty domains, having ratified all 24 treaties under review. It shows particularly strong and consistent engagement with environmental agreements—ratifying all 9 tracked climate, desertification, and pollution conventions—and with human rights and arms control frameworks. This universal ratification pattern reflects a strategic alignment with global governance norms, though treaty commitment alone does not distinguish the country from similarly-situated UN members.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyRatified
- 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 CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →The Dominican Republic votes with the General Assembly consensus in the vast majority of cases, with a 79% yes-vote rate across 5,694 recorded votes. Its most notable dissents cluster around Palestinian representation and support (voting no on four Palestine-related resolutions between 1972 and 1993 that passed with 95–97% support), suggesting a consistent divergence from mainstream UN sentiment on this issue. A 2018 abstention on an African development resolution provides limited additional indication of selective dissent, but overall the country maintains high alignment with General Assembly majorities.
Notable dissents from consensus
New Partnership for Africa's Development : progress in implementation and international support : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2018-09-10 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Question of Palestine : Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1993-12-20 · voted N · 97% voted yes
Invitation to the Palestine Liberation Organization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1974-10-14 · voted N · 96% voted yes
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1972-12-13 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1993-12-20 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.776 (High), ranked #89 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