Guyana
A combined view of Guyana'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
Guyana's UN General Assembly rhetoric has evolved from historically grounded appeals for multilateral development cooperation in the mid-2000s toward increasingly forceful and concrete advocacy, particularly around climate justice, sovereignty, and national development. Early speeches emphasized multilateralism and global responsibility-sharing (2006–2014), but a notable pivot occurred around 2016, when Guyana paired green development commitments with an emotionally charged defense against territorial claims, sharply raising both emotional intensity and self-accountability. From 2018 onward, speeches have balanced institutional multilateralism with progressively more detailed, data-rich commitments to Guyana's own environmental and development agenda, culminating in 2022–2025 addresses that blend moral urgency on global crises with substantial quantified self-commitments on biodiversity, energy, and climate policy.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Very High | Medium | High | Low |
| 2007 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2011 | High | High | High | Low |
| 2012 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2013 | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2014 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2016 | High | High | High | High |
| 2018 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2019 | Very High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2020 | Very High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2022 | High | Medium | Very High | High |
| 2023 | High | High | Very High | High |
| 2024 | High | High | High | High |
| 2025 | High | Very High | High | High |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Guyana has demonstrated comprehensive commitment to international legal frameworks, ratifying 23 of 24 tracked treaties across arms control, human rights, environmental, and trade governance domains. The country shows particularly strong alignment with environmental treaties—ratifying ten of eleven tracked environmental conventions, including the Paris Agreement, Convention on Biological Diversity, and multiple hazardous waste and chemical protocols—with the sole exception being the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. Guyana's ratification of the Rome Statute, all core human rights conventions, and major arms control treaties reflects a broad institutional commitment to international norms, while its engagement with trade governance and anti-corruption mechanisms underscores recognition of interconnected development and security challenges.
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 LayerNo action
- 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 →Guyana exhibits strong consensus alignment in General Assembly voting, with 4,938 yes votes out of 5,335 recorded votes (92.6% affirmative rate) and only 22 dissenting votes across fourteen years. The country abstains selectively (223 votes, 4.2%) and records minimal non-votes (152, 2.8%), indicating consistent institutional engagement. No notable dissents from consensus positions have been identified, suggesting Guyana typically aligns with prevailing General Assembly majorities and avoids isolated oppositional stances, reserving abstention for contentious or procedurally complex matters.
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