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H.E. Dr. Khalilur Rahman<\/div>\n
President of the eighty-first session of the General Assembly<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Remarks by the President of the eighty-first session, published as delivered. Statements in the General Assembly Hall are listed alongside those given at high-level meetings, thematic debates, commemorations and briefings. Most recent first.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\n The general debate<\/span>\n 22 September 2026<\/span>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Statement<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n PDF · 15 pages<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the opening of the general debate of the eighty-first session<\/a>\n
General Assembly Hall · New York · 22 September 2026<\/div>\n

“Outside these walls, people are not asking whether the United Nations still exists. They are asking whether it works.”<\/p>\n

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October 2026<\/h2>\n
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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Opening remarks at the special event “A Planet Fit for the Future: Restoring Trust through Climate Action” →<\/a>\n
Economic and Social Council Chamber · New York<\/div>\n

“Let COP31 be judged not by the promises we repeat, but by the people we protect.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the opening of the Legal Committee →<\/a>\n
United Nations Headquarters · New York<\/div>\n

“The choices we make today will determine whether international law remains a living force or becomes an increasingly distant ideal.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the plenary meeting of the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee →<\/a>\n
Trusteeship Council Chamber · New York<\/div>\n

“The ultimate test of this Committee is not how many resolutions it adopts. It is whether those resolutions have a real impact on people and communities.”<\/p>\n

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\n Keynote<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Keynote remarks at the Engaging Business Forum: “AI and the Future of Work: A Human Rights Imperative” →<\/a>\n
Engaging Business Forum · New York<\/div>\n

“AI can automate tasks. It must never automate accountability.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the joint debate on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development →<\/a>\n
General Assembly Hall · New York<\/div>\n

“Africa has resources. Africa has people. Africa has ambition.”<\/p>\n

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\n Statement<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Statement at the joint debate on the implementation of United Nations resolutions and the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly →<\/a>\n
General Assembly Hall · New York<\/div>\n

“The adoption of a resolution is not the end of our responsibility; it is just the beginning.”<\/p>\n

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\n Statement<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Statement at the plenary meeting of the Economic and Financial Committee →<\/a>\n
United Nations Headquarters · New York<\/div>\n

“People do not measure us by meetings, resolutions or pages of documents. They measure us by whether development reaches them.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the plenary meeting of the Disarmament and International Security Committee →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 4, United Nations Headquarters · New York<\/div>\n

“No State can build lasting security on the insecurity of another.”<\/p>\n

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\n Address<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Address at the plenary meeting of the Administrative and Budgetary Committee →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 3, United Nations Headquarters · New York<\/div>\n

“If the other Committees are where we make promises, the Fifth Committee is where we determine whether those promises will be kept.”<\/p>\n

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\n Statement<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Statement at the plenary meeting of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 4, United Nations Headquarters · New York<\/div>\n

“Trust must be earned through commitments honoured and results delivered.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the General Assembly debate on the use of the veto →<\/a>\n
General Assembly Hall · New York<\/div>\n

“The Council’s deliberations revealed significant differences concerning the draft resolution; it is precisely when positions diverge most sharply, that dialogue and diplomacy become most indispensable.”<\/p>\n

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September 2026<\/h2>\n
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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons →<\/a>\n
Trusteeship Council Chamber · New York<\/div>\n

“The starting point must be a simple truth, reaffirmed in the Pact for the Future: a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”<\/p>\n

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\n Speech<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Speech at the high-level meeting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action →<\/a>\n
Trusteeship Council Chamber · New York<\/div>\n

“Hatred is learned. But so are respect, solidarity and our shared humanity.”<\/p>\n

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\n Statement<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the close of the general debate of the eighty-first session →<\/a>\n
General Assembly Hall · New York<\/div>\n

“Dialogue can be difficult. It can be frustrating. But it is always better than a world in which we stop talking and take up arms.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 1 · New York<\/div>\n

“Pandemics do not respect borders, wealth or military power.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the high-level special meeting “Sagarmatha to the Sea” →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 6 · New York<\/div>\n

“From Sagarmatha to the sea, we are witnessing one interconnected climate crisis.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Closing remarks at the high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 1 · New York<\/div>\n

“Solidarity is a powerful force, and we should draw on these shared experiences as we chart a path forward.”<\/p>\n

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\n Statement<\/span>\n As prepared for delivery<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Special address at the eleventh ministerial meeting of the Like-Minded Group for Middle-Income Countries →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 5 · New York<\/div>\n

“If middle-income countries succeed, the Sustainable Development Goals can succeed. If they remain trapped, the world will remain off track.”<\/p>\n

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\n Speech<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Speech at the high-level meeting on addressing the existential threats posed by sea-level rise →<\/a>\n
General Assembly Hall · New York<\/div>\n

“Sea-level rise is ultimately about people. About our heritage, our identity and the world we leave to our children.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the Ministerial Meeting on UNRWA →<\/a>\n
ECOSOC Chamber · New York<\/div>\n

“We have a moral, legal and practical responsibility to sustain the work of UNRWA.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the Ministerial Meeting of Landlocked Developing Countries →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 2 · New York<\/div>\n

“Together, let us turn opportunity into access and partnership into progress, leaving no country locked out.”<\/p>\n

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\n Statement<\/span>\n As prepared for delivery<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Statement at the annual ministerial meeting of the Least Developed Countries →<\/a>\n
United Nations Headquarters · New York<\/div>\n

“The LDC agenda is not an act of charity. It is a test of justice, foresight and the credibility of multilateralism.”<\/p>\n

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\n Speech<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Speech at the high-level segment on the fortieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 4 · New York<\/div>\n

“The world has changed profoundly since 1986. Our commitment to the right to development must not.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the high-level side event on the Rohingya crisis →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 11 · New York<\/div>\n

“The Rohingya have made their aspiration clear again, and again, and again: they want to return home.”<\/p>\n

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\n Speech<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Speech on social business, youth and technology →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 1 · New York<\/div>\n

“Young people must advance from participation to leadership: from being consulted to co-designing policy; from receiving programmes to building enterprises; and from demanding change to implementing it.”<\/p>\n

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\n Speech<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Speech at the Global Conference on Promoting Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue and Tolerance in Countering Hate Speech →<\/a>\n
Trusteeship Council Chamber · New York<\/div>\n

“Let us choose dialogue over division; respect over contempt; and solidarity over hatred.”<\/p>\n

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\n Tribute<\/span>\n As prepared for delivery<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Tribute to His Majesty King Harald V of Norway →<\/a>\n
General Assembly Hall · New York<\/div>\n

“King Harald reminds us that trust is not proclaimed; it is built, patiently, by seeing one another and working with each other.”<\/p>\n

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\n Speech<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Speech at the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation →<\/a>\n
Conference Room 1 · New York<\/div>\n

“Faced with extreme risks, countries of the South have not surrendered their agency or hope… they reach out a hand – and find another reaching back, across southern geographies, as a partner in shared resolve.”<\/p>\n

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\n Speech<\/span>\n As prepared for delivery<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Speech on multilateral AI governance at the Ambassadorial Lunch →<\/a>\n
Ambassadorial Lunch · New York<\/div>\n

“The question is whether all of us will have a voice in how that transformation unfolds.”<\/p>\n

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\n Tribute<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Tribute to the memory of His Highness the Father Amir of the State of Qatar →<\/a>\n
ECOSOC Chamber · New York<\/div>\n

“On behalf of the General Assembly, I extend our deepest condolences to the Government and people of the State of Qatar, and especially to the family of His Highness.”<\/p>\n

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\n Speech<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Speech at the annual Peace Bell Ceremony →<\/a>\n
Japanese Garden, United Nations Headquarters · New York<\/div>\n

“Peace must be built. And it is our shared responsibility to build it.”<\/p>\n

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\n Statement<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the opening of the eighty-first session of the General Assembly →<\/a>\n
General Assembly Hall · New York<\/div>\n

“My main pledge for this 81st session, dear colleagues and friends, is to work tirelessly to revive trust in this institution, upon which success of our collective action ultimately depends.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks to the press<\/span>\n As delivered<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks to the press on the opening of the eighty-first session →<\/a>\n
United Nations Headquarters · New York<\/div>\n

“As a candidate, I ran on the theme: ‘Restoring trust, managing transformation’. Now, as President, I add to this, we must make the United Nations ‘Fit for the Future’.”<\/p>\n

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\n Remarks<\/span>\n As prepared for delivery<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Remarks at the annual United Nations Prayer Service →<\/a>\n
Holy Family Church · New York<\/div>\n

“We remember that community is measured not by how it treats the mighty – but by how it protects the marginalized.”<\/p>\n

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Before the Session Opened<\/h2>\n
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Statements given between his election on 2 June 2026 and the opening of the session.<\/p><\/div>\n\n

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\n Statement<\/span>\n On election<\/span>\n English<\/span>\n <\/div>\n Acceptance statement on election as President of the eighty-first session →<\/a>\n
General Assembly Hall · New York<\/div>\n

Delivered immediately after his election: a commitment to engage all Member States, to rebuild trust and nurture consensus, and to organise the Office reflecting geographical, gender and linguistic balance. The six areas of action set out that day became the pillars of the presidency.<\/p>\n

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This listing fills through the session<\/div>\n

A session normally produces some two hundred statements. Each is posted here, usually on the day it is delivered, with translations added where they are issued. The calendar of meetings and events shows what is scheduled next.<\/p>\n

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