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El Salvador
A combined view of El Salvador'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
El Salvador's General Assembly rhetoric shifted dramatically over the twelve-year period, transitioning from multilateral consensus-building to nationalist skepticism. Between 2006 and 2018, speeches remained anchored in calls for international cooperation on shared challenges like climate, migration, and crime—though increasingly paired with assertions of domestic achievement. Beginning in 2020, however, a sharp reversal occurred: multilateralism scores collapsed (from 74 to 8–18), emotional intensity spiked, and concrete policy content evaporated, replaced by philosophical critiques of UN irrelevance and passionate defenses of national sovereignty untethered to multilateral frameworks.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2007 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2009 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2011 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2013 | Medium | Medium | Very High | Very High |
| 2014 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2015 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2016 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2018 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2020 | Very Low | High | Low | Medium |
| 2021 | Very Low | High | Very Low | Low |
| 2022 | Very Low | Very High | Low | Low |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →El Salvador has demonstrated strong and consistent commitment to international law across human rights, environmental, and arms control domains, ratifying 23 of 24 tracked treaties. The country shows particular engagement with environmental agreements (15 ratifications including the Paris Agreement and Montreal Protocol family), human rights conventions (5 ratifications), and international justice mechanisms (Rome Statute), reflecting a historically cooperative multilateral posture. The sole unsigned treaty is the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, suggesting selective rather than wholesale rejection of treaty obligations.
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 SeaSigned, not ratified
Voting record
Full voting record →El Salvador votes affirmatively on the vast majority of General Assembly resolutions (80% yes votes), demonstrating general alignment with the consensus of UN membership. Notably, its rare dissents cluster on Middle East situations (voting no in 1986, 1987, and 1988 when large majorities voted yes) and on Cold War–era security matters, suggesting a consistent pattern of nonalignment on geopolitically fraught questions rather than systematic obstruction of multilateral business.
Notable dissents from consensus
The situation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1988-12-06 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1970-12-07 · voted N · 98% voted yes
The situation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1986-12-04 · voted N · 98% voted yes
The situation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1987-12-11 · voted N · 98% voted yes
Question of Belize : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1977-11-28 · voted N · 97% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.678 (Medium), ranked #132 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