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Luxembourg
A combined view of Luxembourg'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.
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Luxembourg's General Assembly rhetoric has remained consistently anchored in multilateralism throughout the period, with scores hovering around 82–96, reflecting an unwavering institutional commitment. Emotional intensity has risen notably since 2013, especially in 2022 (88) following Russia's Ukraine invasion and in 2021 and 2025 (both 78), signaling a shift from reserved diplomacy toward more personally engaged moral appeals. Self-accountability and concreteness both strengthened over the 2006–2018 period, peaking in 2012 and 2018, suggesting a growing willingness to detail Luxembourg's own contributions; these metrics have remained moderate-to-strong in recent years, though concreteness dipped in 2025 even as emotional resonance remained high.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2008 | Very High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2010 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2012 | Very High | Low | High | Very High |
| 2013 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2014 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2015 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2016 | Very High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2017 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2018 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2021 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2022 | High | Very High | Medium | High |
| 2025 | Very High | High | Low | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Luxembourg demonstrates near-universal commitment to international legal frameworks, having ratified 23 of 24 tracked treaties. Environmental treaties represent the largest category of engagement, with ratification of all nine tracked instruments from the Basel Convention to the Paris Agreement. The country is equally comprehensive on human rights and arms control, ratifying all tracked conventions in both areas—including the Arms Trade Treaty and landmines ban—with the sole exception of declining to take action on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Trade governance and international justice instruments are likewise fully ratified, including the Rome Statute and anti-corruption conventions.
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 →Across 5,694 General Assembly votes, Luxembourg has voted affirmatively in the majority of cases (55.5%), with abstentions comprising 27.7% of its record, suggesting a diplomatic posture of measured engagement rather than reflexive alignment. The country's dissents from consensus are historically concentrated in the early 1980s around South African sanctions resolutions, where Luxembourg voted against overwhelming majorities (95–99%), a pattern reflecting European economic interests of that era but starkly absent from the modern record—indicating a substantive shift in voting alignment over four decades.
Notable dissents from consensus
Progressive development of the principles and norms of international law relating to the new international economic order : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1989-12-04 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 1984-1985 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1984-12-18 · voted N · 96% voted yes
Oil embargo against South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1983-12-05 · voted N · 96% voted yes
International Conference on Sanctions against South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1980-12-16 · voted N · 96% voted yes
Oil embargo against South Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1982-12-09 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.922 (Very High), ranked #25 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