Panama
A combined view of Panama'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
Panama's General Assembly rhetoric has oscillated between multilateralism and national self-promotion across the past two decades, with notable inflection points marking shifts in priority and tone. From 2006–2012, speeches maintained relatively stable emphasis on multilateral cooperation (multilateralism scores 68–87) while incorporating concrete national achievements, particularly around canal expansion and infrastructure. Beginning in 2013, speeches became more self-promotional and emotionally charged, with multilateralism gradually declining through 2024 (dropping to 38) as grievances—especially regarding migration and international "blacklisting"—took rhetorical center stage. The most recent speech in 2025 marks a return to multilateralism-forward framing (87), coupled with concrete commitments on climate, migration, and canal governance, suggesting renewed emphasis on institutional partnership after a period of acute nationalism.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2007 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2010 | High | Low | High | High |
| 2011 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2012 | High | Medium | Medium | High |
| 2013 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2015 | High | Medium | Medium | High |
| 2018 | Medium | High | High | Very High |
| 2019 | High | High | Low | Medium |
| 2021 | Medium | High | High | High |
| 2022 | Medium | High | High | Very High |
| 2023 | High | High | Medium | High |
| 2024 | Low | High | High | Medium |
| 2025 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Panama 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's particular emphasis on environmental treaties—ratifying all nine tracked conventions from the Montreal Protocol through the Paris Agreement—reflects sustained engagement with climate and transboundary pollution governance. Panama's universal ratification of human rights conventions and its adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court further underscore institutional alignment with global norms on accountability and rights protection.
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 →Panama maintains strong alignment with General Assembly consensus, voting affirmatively in approximately 86% of recorded votes (4,891 yes votes from 5,694 total), with notably few dissents. Its five recorded dissenting votes all cluster on Israeli-Palestinian matters between 2009 and 2013, when Panama voted no while 95–96% of the body voted yes—a pattern suggesting principled but isolated distance from international consensus on this particular geopolitical question. The low abstention rate (464 across 14 years) indicates Panama generally commits to explicit positions rather than strategic non-engagement.
Notable dissents from consensus
International Year for Human Rights : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1967-12-18 · voted N · 96% voted yes
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2009-12-10 · voted N · 96% voted yes
Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2009-12-10 · voted N · 96% voted yes
Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2009-12-02 · voted N · 96% voted yes
Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2013-12-11 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.839 (Very High), ranked #59 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