Greece
A combined view of Greece'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
Greece's UN General Assembly rhetoric has evolved from highly institutionalized multilateral framing in the early years (2007–2009) toward a more emotionally charged and nationally assertive stance in recent years. The shift intensified markedly during the 2016 economic and migration crisis, when Tsipras injected stronger emotional appeals, and has persisted through 2020–2025 as successive speakers have balanced concrete policy commitments with pointed regional grievances—particularly against Turkey—and urgent moral stances on geopolitical conflicts. While multilateralism remains a consistent theme, emotional intensity has generally increased and self-accountability has grown more pronounced, reflecting Greece's evolving emphasis on defending national sovereignty and interests within a rules-based order.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Very High | Low | High | Medium |
| 2009 | Very High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2010 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2011 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2013 | High | Low | Medium | High |
| 2014 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2016 | High | High | Medium | High |
| 2017 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2020 | Medium | High | Medium | High |
| 2021 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2022 | High | High | Medium | High |
| 2023 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2024 | Very High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2025 | High | High | High | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Greece demonstrates comprehensive and consistent commitment to international legal frameworks, having ratified 23 of 24 tracked treaties across arms control, environmental protection, human rights, and trade governance. The one abstention—the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons—reflects alignment with NATO allies' strategic positions. Greece's ratification record is particularly robust in environmental treaties (10 of 10), including the full suite of climate and chemical governance instruments, and equally strong in human rights conventions, signaling deep institutional integration within the rules-based international order.
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 →Greece maintains a broadly consensus-aligned voting record, with affirmative votes on over 69% of General Assembly resolutions and abstentions on approximately 21%, leaving dissents rare and historically significant. The three notable dissents on record—spanning nuclear-free zones, price indexation, and Portuguese colonial occupation—are isolated departures over five decades, suggesting Greece's voting patterns are driven primarily by alignment with Western and EU positions rather than sustained principled dissent.
Notable dissents from consensus
Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2017-12-04 · voted N · 97% voted yes
Study on the indexation of prices : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1973-12-06 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Illegal occupation by Portuguese military forces of certain sectors of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and acts of aggression committed by them against the people of the Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1973-11-02 · voted N · 93% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.908 (Very High), ranked #34 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