Serbia
A combined view of Serbia'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
Serbia's General Assembly rhetoric has undergone a marked shift from diplomatic pragmatism toward grievance-driven nationalism over the past two decades. Early speeches (2006–2011) emphasized multilateral frameworks and legal arguments grounded in the UN Charter and ICJ processes, maintaining high multilateralism scores (68–78) while defending the Kosovo dispute through institutional channels. From 2015 onward, however, Serbia's rhetorical stance became increasingly emotionally charged and sovereignty-focused, with multilateralism scores declining sharply (dropping to 34–46 in recent years) as passionate appeals about historical victimization, Western double standards, and territorial integrity came to dominate the discourse. The most recent addresses (2023–2025) have been characteristically defiant, centering on Kosovo and NATO grievances with vivid emotional intensity (78–88) while offering minimal concrete multilateral proposals or accountability measures.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2008 | High | High | High | High |
| 2009 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2010 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2011 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2014 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2015 | Medium | Very High | Medium | Medium |
| 2016 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2018 | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2020 | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2022 | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2023 | Medium | Very High | Medium | Low |
| 2024 | Low | Very High | Medium | Low |
| 2025 | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Serbia demonstrates strong commitment to international legal frameworks, having ratified 23 of 24 tracked treaties across environmental, human rights, arms control, and governance domains. The country shows particular consistency in environmental agreements, ratifying all ten environmental treaties tracked including the Paris Agreement and Kyoto Protocol, and has completed all five human rights conventions. However, Serbia has taken no action on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the sole abstention from this otherwise comprehensive treaty engagement, suggesting possible alignment with NATO-affiliated security perspectives or ambivalence about nuclear disarmament initiatives.
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 →Serbia's voting record reflects overwhelming alignment with General Assembly consensus, with 1,154 affirmative votes out of 1,793 total votes and no notable dissents from majority positions recorded. The country's high abstention rate (392 abstentions, approximately 22% of votes) suggests a pattern of non-alignment on contested issues, but this pattern does not translate into principled opposition to consensus outcomes. This voting behavior is consistent with a centrist or fence-sitting diplomatic posture, particularly on issues that might pit regional, EU, or NATO interests against broader multilateral preferences.
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.833 (Very High), ranked #62 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.
1995–2023