Mexico
A combined view of Mexico'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
Mexico's General Assembly rhetoric has consistently centered on multilateralism and international cooperation, averaging high multilateralist scores across the 12-year period, though with notable inflection points. The 2020 address marked a striking departure, pivoting sharply inward to focus on domestic policy and austerity with minimal multilateral framing (multilateralism=12), before returning to strong multilateralist engagement in 2021. Since then, Mexico's tone has grown more emotionally charged and nationalistic, particularly in 2024–2025, where pride in domestic transformation has paired with advocacy for UN reform and international law, though concrete policy specificity has declined.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2013 | Very High | Low | High | High |
| 2016 | Very High | Low | High | High |
| 2017 | Very High | Very High | High | Medium |
| 2018 | Very High | Medium | Medium | High |
| 2019 | Very High | High | Medium | High |
| 2020 | Very Low | Medium | High | High |
| 2021 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2022 | Very High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2023 | Very High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2024 | High | Very High | Medium | High |
| 2025 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Mexico demonstrates comprehensive commitment to international legal frameworks, having ratified all 24 tracked treaties across arms control, environmental protection, human rights, international justice, and trade governance. The country shows particular strength in environmental treaties (10 ratified, spanning climate change, hazardous waste, biodiversity, and ozone protection) and human rights conventions (5 ratified), reflecting a consistent diplomatic stance emphasizing collective action on global challenges mentioned repeatedly in its speeches.
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 →Mexico exhibits strong consensus alignment in General Assembly voting, supporting approximately 92% of all votes (5,246 yes out of 5,694 total), with minimal dissent (15 no votes) and selective abstentions (398 across 12 years). The only notable recorded dissent from consensus was a vote against the 1976 Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques, when 92% of the assembly voted yes, representing an outlier in Mexico's otherwise consistently cooperative voting pattern.
Notable dissents from consensus
Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1976-12-10 · voted N · 92% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.789 (High), ranked #81 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