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Maldives
A combined view of Maldives's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
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Maldives' General Assembly rhetoric has evolved from a balance of concrete self-accountability and multilateral appeals in the mid-2000s toward increasingly passionate advocacy within a strong multilateral framework in recent years. A notable shift occurred around 2012–2013, when the country temporarily retreated from multilateralism to defend small-state sovereignty concerns, but this was reversed sharply from 2020 onward, with speeches becoming more emotionally intense and multilaterally engaged, particularly on climate and existential threats. By 2024–2025, the country combined vivid moral appeals—including on Gaza—with steadfast defense of the rules-based international order and sharp condemnation of great-power impunity, marking a mature integration of local grievance with system-wide advocacy.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | High | High | High |
| 2007 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2012 | Medium | High | High | High |
| 2013 | Medium | High | High | Medium |
| 2020 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2021 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2022 | Very High | High | High | High |
| 2023 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2024 | High | Very High | High | High |
| 2025 | Very High | Very High | High | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Maldives demonstrates comprehensive and unwavering commitment to international law across all tracked treaty domains, having ratified all 24 treaties under review. The country shows particular depth of engagement with environmental governance—ratifying twelve of the thirteen environmental instruments tracked, from climate frameworks (UNFCCC, Kyoto, Paris) to chemical and waste management conventions—reflecting its acute vulnerability to climate impacts. Its equally complete ratification of human rights, arms control, international justice, and trade governance treaties demonstrates a consistent internationalist legal posture with no notable withdrawals or abstentions from major regimes.
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 SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Maldives votes affirmatively in the vast majority of General Assembly votes (86.7% yes votes among 5,363 recorded votes), with minimal dissent (48 no votes, 205 abstentions). The country's only notable departure from consensus was a 2019 vote against the advisory opinion on the Chagos Archipelago separation—a vote cast against the overwhelming 95% consensus, likely reflecting strategic regional positioning or alliance concerns rather than a pattern of systematic dissent. This isolated deviation underscores an otherwise highly consensus-oriented voting approach aligned with the broader UN membership.
Notable dissents from consensus
Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2019-05-22 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.766 (High), ranked #93 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.
2000–2023