Gabon
A combined view of Gabon'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
Gabon's General Assembly speeches have maintained a consistent diplomatic posture centered on multilateral cooperation, averaging high scores on multilateralism (76/100) across the 16-year period. Concreteness and self-accountability grew notably from 2006–2012, particularly through 2014, reflecting an increasing willingness to detail specific national commitments on environment, health, and development. However, this upward arc plateaued around 2016–2020, with a sharp disruption in 2023 following the military transition, where emotional intensity spiked (61/100) while self-accountability dropped (44/100) as the speech pivoted to domestic political justification. Most recent addresses (2024–2025) show a rebalancing, combining detailed transition progress reports with renewed emphasis on environmental and peace priorities, albeit with slightly lower multilateralism scores (66–68/100) than the pre-2023 baseline.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Very High | Low | Medium | Low |
| 2007 | Very High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2009 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2010 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2011 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2012 | High | Low | Medium | High |
| 2013 | High | Low | High | Medium |
| 2014 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2016 | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2018 | Very High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2019 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2020 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2022 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2023 | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2024 | High | Low | High | Medium |
| 2025 | High | Medium | High | High |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Gabon demonstrates strong and near-universal commitment to international law, having ratified 23 of 24 tracked treaties across all major themes. The country shows particularly robust engagement with environmental instruments (10 ratifications, spanning climate change, biodiversity, hazardous waste, and mercury), a pattern consistent with its prominent forest conservation messaging in UN speeches. Human rights and trade governance treaties are equally well-represented (5 and 3 ratifications respectively), while arms control shows selective commitment—Gabon has signed major non-nuclear instruments (Arms Trade Treaty, Anti-Personnel Mines Convention, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty) but notably has not acted on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the sole treaty without ratification in the dataset.
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 WeaponsNo action
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 →Gabon overwhelmingly aligns with General Assembly consensus, voting affirmatively on 79% of all votes and abstaining or not voting on a combined 21%, with a notably low dissent rate (0.6% negative votes across 5,458 ballots). Its five recorded dissents cluster around contentious sovereignty and decolonization issues—voting against three resolutions on colonial independence implementation (2015, 2017, 2018) and one on Western Sahara (1979)—suggesting Gabon prioritizes African state sovereignty concerns and regional geopolitical alignments over the broader consensus on decolonization procedures. A single 1973 vote against nuclear suspension resolutions stands as an outlier in an otherwise consistent pattern.
Notable dissents from consensus
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2015-12-23 · voted N · 97% voted yes
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2017-12-07 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Urgent need for suspension of nuclear and thermonuclear tests : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1973-12-06 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2018-12-07 · voted N · 94% voted yes
Question of Western Sahara : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1979-11-21 · voted N · 93% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.733 (High), ranked #108 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