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Xavier Espot Zamora

lines on the record: 88
first: 2019-09-24
most recent: 2023-09-24
sittings or episodes: 4
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“all the aspirations of the international community that have resounded throughout the General Assembly. Members know that they can count on Andorra’s commitment to pursuing progress together.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“All those lessons have one thing in common — the great challenges facing humankind require the participation of all countries and all people, because the international community progresses only by understanding its interdependencies and the fact that no country is big enough to face the challenges alone, and that solutions, to be fair and lasting, must include everyone. It is about laying solid foundations for a future where no one is left behind and where the demand for co-responsibility is fully shared. This is how we Andorrans believe that we must concentrate our efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the fight against climate change and the provision of quality education to all inhabitants of the planet, with the assistance of the institutions of governance — in sum.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“It is for that reason that in our country, we are prepared to seek, more than ever before, the points of convergence necessary to rebuild trust and revitalize solidarity, accelerate action on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals, as I have already announced, and work to prepare in the best way for the Summit of the Future, which will take place in 2024. for peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all. After almost eight decades of existence, the United Nations has allowed us to learn many lessons in many areas, from maintaining peace to the fight against climate change.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“As I said earlier, the window is still open, but one thing is certain — it can close suddenly. We must take advantage of the era of scientific knowledge and. in that regard. I would like to highlight the importance of science, which has helped us so much to improve our living conditions. Today we know much more about the behaviour of the Earth’s atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, and its effects on water resources and the survival of species. The scenario to follow cannot be a monologue, but must be a dialogue among all peoples and for all peoples.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We are a State that seeks to adapt to the European Union because if we wish to move forward, we cannot circumvent the certainty that the geographic and demographic interdependence of our country with Europe is total. The Europeanization of the values of our society; of our legislation, which is strongly inspired by community law; and of the professional aspirations of our young people, who every day face a more demanding job market, is more than sufficient reason for us not to not turn our back on Europe. Likewise, it is essential to continue working to defend the values of multilateralism, such as human rights, democracy and the rule of law. They have helped us promote peace and security on the European continent and in the rest of the world. We have put the planet under considerable pressure.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Andorra’s accession as a member of the Carbon Neutrality Coalition allows us to learn and share experiences with other member States. We were pioneers in the implementation of a green tax by establishing a carbon price of €30 per ton. allowing us to move towards a more sustainable modality. We adopted a law of circular economy that sets 2035 as the deadline for achieving a production model in which most waste will be transformed into by-products to be reintroduced into the production chain, with special emphasis on the fight against the waste of resources, and specifically food. We have also implemented general free public transport not only to help families with fewer resources, but also to limit journeys in private vehicles.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Given the geographical specificities of our territory, landlocked in the Pyrenees, we are very active members of the Mountain Partnership, and we campaigned for the Aspen Declaration to include specific mention of the Pyrenees, as had already been done for other mountainous regions. We have advocated for the particular vulnerability of mountain regions around the world to receive specific attention in international forums devoted to climate change. That fight that cannot be won without clearly focusing on the energy transition, one of the global challenges that our country must also face and that clearly responds to our international and national commitment to our citizens to moving us towards carbon neutrality.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We obviously cannot change the past, but we can act to move towards a more egalitarian society, because if we want to achieve the transformation necessary for the sustainability of the planet, we cannot leave half of humankind behind. In that respect, in recent years our country has made gender equality and non-discrimination essential values and has articulated pioneering and ambitious laws for its defence that are also taught in the schools. The education of girls and the training of women constitute a domestic priority and are part of our international cooperation. Andorra is a high mountain country and particularly sensitive to climate change, which seriously threatens our biodiversity, our water cycle and even, ultimately, our way of life.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been a test of resistance and stress for the health system that Andorra has been able to overcome, because we have a solid system and thanks to its professional staff, who have honoured their profession by making a considerable effort to keep the population safe. We must highlight the role of the World Health Organization, which this year celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary — seventy- five years dedicated to the fight against diseases that permanently threaten certain countries, and against epidemics and pandemics, because they do not all bear the name COVID-19. and to confront the structural inequalities of access to health services, physical or mental, experienced by the population. Gender equality is a subject of historical social injustice.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Andorra played an active part in last year’s Transforming Education Summit, in the conviction that we can contribute by sharing our experience in implementing SDG 4 to ensure quality, inclusive, equitable and multilingual education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all children and young people. Andorra attaches particular importance to education, which allows us to offer elementary training of excellence so that children and young people of 65 different nationalities can grow in a context of learning the fundamental values of democracy and human rights, with a high degree of social cohesion and diversity and a strong sense of belonging. Along with education, access to health is another fundamental pillar of any society.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“From that point of view, we recognize and applaud the tireless work of Secretary-General Guterres and the presidency of the General Assembly in joining their efforts, because we still have an open window to ensure a viable and sustainable future sustainable for all. and specifically their recent organization of the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, in which Andorra actively participated. Education is undoubtedly one of the best tools to achieve those objectives. It is the basis of progress, the articulating axis of societies and the fundamental element of personal and collective growth as a guarantee of equality opportunities, respect, civic- mindedness. democracy and the future.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“The 2030 Agenda is a universal road map that guides the future of the planet towards sustainable, resilient and inclusive societies of peace. Andorra’s commitment to achieving the Goals is firm, as demonstrated by its submission of two voluntary national reports monitoring the application of the SDGs. It is for that reason that Andorra has adopted its national strategic plan on the implementation of Agenda 2030. which reflects the involvement of the Government, institutions and Andorran society as a whole in working for the sustainable development of our planet, building fairer societies and leaving no one behind.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“In schools and areas reserved for children in the Principality of Andorra, there are posters highlighting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The posters are placed where adults can see them as well. This is a metaphor for our society — a call from children to adults; a reminder that time is passing and that the future is in our hands; and one final message that our sense of responsibility and credibility should make it possible to accelerate the process, go further and reformulate current structures and move towards new financial, technological and environmental governance, with growth based on sustainability, cooperation and equality, in order to lay the future foundations for our children and young people.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Neither economics nor political science can give us a definitive answer to this question, of course. Aristotle, in his Politics, says that the size of the polis should permit all the inhabitants to be familiar with each other’s characters; it should be possible, he adds, completely to survey the territory from a mountaintop. Andorra possesses these human and geographical features.” (A/47/PV.108. p. 18). It is from that human perspective of the value of authenticity, of freedom and of what is worth loving and preserving, and which has given us the benefit of more than 750 years of peace, that we can bring our knowledge and our commitments to bear on common challenges, and all within the framework of multilateralism.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“The adoption of the Andorran Constitution in 1993 allowed us to enjoy international recognition, to make our voice heard outside our borders and to align ourselves with international law. Allow me. as part of the commemoration of that landmark occasion, which is so important to all the citizens of Andorra, to recall the words that the Head of Government. Mr. Oscar Ribas Reig. spoke from this rostrum three decades ago on how a small country like Andorra can contribute to improving this world. He said: “We are a small country, but one that is aware of the value of authenticity and of the fact that, in a world that is in certain ways inordinately large, small dimensions may offer a positive contribution to balanced coexistence. What should be the ideal size of a State?”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“That milestone serves as a powerful reminder of the pressing need to promote justice for all victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and human rights violations. It was in that conviction that Andorra, alongside other small European States and civil society, grouped around non-governmental organizations, played a key role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court and wants to continue to be so in order to further strengthen the Organization. This year, representing my country in the Assembly has a more special meaning for me than ever. On 28 July. Andorra celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of its accession as the 184th State Member of the United Nations.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Ethiopia, the Sahel and other territories no longer make the headlines, yet they are frozen conflict zones whose most fragile populations are the main victims. Andorra contributes to supporting the most vulnerable, particularly women and children, through the programmes of UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross and their courageous work on the ground. During all these years, the African continent has never ceased to be a source of concern, with breakdowns of democracy in many western States, often under terrorist threat. Last July, we commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute, the founding document of the International Criminal Court.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We must more than ever recall the original values of the Organization, which was born on the ruins of the most devastating war in history — an Organization serving peace, dialogue and multilateralism and intended to prevent the scourge of war. Yet war is here. Europe remains worried about a conflict that has become a war of attrition, with enormous consequences for the Ukrainian civilian population. From our country, we strongly condemn that violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. We have also supported the declarations of the General Assembly, the positions expressed by other bodies such as the Council of Europe, and international sanctions, in particular those of the European Union. Yemen. Pakistan.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“major transformations and social and economic mutations are needed, because fighting and understanding climate change is not a purely scientific or technocratic question to be left in the hands of experts; it is. rather, a political, social, economic, ethical and even philosophical problem that lays bare the enormous inequalities of our world. Thus, our conviction that the solutions lie in a new form of multilateralism more oriented towards collective action is stronger than ever. Those solutions must strengthen and contribute to rebuilding international cooperation in order to provide adequate resources in the regions and promote inclusive governance and coordinated and supportive policies. It is here at the United Nations that we must identify crises and adopt clear positions, actions and commitments in favour of the common good.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“the wave of fires on the North American continent and the Mediterranean coast, and El Nino have become recurrent phenomena that desiccate the world, make the land less cultivable and push people to abandon their place of origin because environmental degradation has made them climate refugees and condemned them to live far from home. We humans are the culprits of climate change, which is why the solutions to stop it will come not from nature itself, which we are degrading, but from our ability to change the model of production and organization of our societies. It may be too late to avoid certain consequences, which are already unfortunately irreversible, but not to slow down others and prevent the global temperature from increasing by more than 1.5°C by the end of the century. To that end.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“He can count on the loyal support of our country for the seventy-eighth session, and we wish him many successes. A few weeks before the general debate began. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched a new appeal to countries to act radically and urgently, because, as he warned us. “[t]he era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived... Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning”. We must no longer look for subterfuges or deny the obvious — greenhouse-gas emissions caused by the unlimited consumption of natural resources have led our planet to exhaustion, which has never been more obvious than it was this summer. The extreme temperatures that caused more than 61.000 deaths in Europe in 2022.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“I would like to begin this statement by congratulating the Ambassador of Trinidad and Tobago. Mr. Dennis Francis, on his election as President of the General Assembly, as well as Mr. Csaba Korosi. who. in a troubled international context, rigorously and efficiently maintained the activity of the Assembly during the seventy-seventh session. We thank President Francis for the theme he has chosen. “Rebuilding trust and revitalizing solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all”. We have made it our own. because it fully responds to the principles with which Andorra works, both from the point of view of domestic politics and from the perspective of international politics.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Andorra is willing to take part and to act with determination to be part of the solution.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We come from a very small country, in which years ago we pledged to do things right and in which everyone can express themselves freely, with an over 600-year-old Parliament, the depository of the people’s sovereignty and in which, for over seven centuries, we have fortunately known only peace. The United Nations may therefore depend on our help, based on the values that have shaped us over history, to defend, globally, a fairer, more equitable world with a more efficient and sustainable economic development. As political leaders, we cannot afford to look back and see how our inaction led to catastrophic and irreversible damage to our planet and to humankind. No individual effort will be enough, but it will be necessary, as the struggle facing us and in which we are now immersed requires everyone to contribute.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“A year ago, in his report Our Common Agenda (A/75/982), Antonio Guterres delivered the very clear message that the United Nations ability to fulfil the objectives established by its founders depends entirely on the collective political will of all its Members and their commitment to the pillars of the United Nations. That message has been understood, and Andorra fully supports the road map, which urges us to intensify action to strengthen and coordinate the global health architecture, address the climate emergency, renew solidarity among peoples, provide space for youth, and encourage a new social contract on human fights and an approach to global commons. In assuming our responsibility, we must now work to achieve all this and now have a — I dare say — historic opportunity to do so.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Last spring, the Consell General — our Parliament—approved a law for the effective application of the right to equal treatment and opportunities and non-discrimination between men and women. It is a pioneering law that provides essential tools for breaking down the invisible barrier that still prevents full equality. Some of the aspects regulated by this law — such as co-education as a guiding principle for the entire education system, the requirement to draw up annual records of gender-related data, a determined commitment to eliminating the wage gap and the coordination of equality plans in companies — are the first of their kind.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“I now wish to mention another global challenge that we have considered and that relates to SDG 5 — achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls. Observation everywhere of persistent gender-based violence, a growing number of sexual assaults and murders of women, and increasing job insecurity and wage gap shows that inequality still leads to vulnerability and excludes half of humankind. Feminism is one of the great challenges of the present moment and it is absolutely essential for us to invest all our effort in developing active, determined measures to build a new reality in which the equality of women and men is not only a right, but also a fact whereby the collective imagination cannot conceive of or accept discrimination against women.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In our country, we believe that the creation of these new opportunities for the future is an inevitable step in completing the process of economic diversification that we started in 2012 and that, because of the pandemic, we have wished to intensify by prioritizing key strategic sectors of sustainability and of innovation and research. This culmination is linked to the strengthening of our relations with the European Union through an association agreement that we have been negotiating since 2015, which has allowed us progressive, structured participation in the European internal market. It will therefore be possible to promote the internationalization of our companies and encourage mobility among our young people and thus also contribute more to global prosperity.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We share the Secretary-General’s view of the need for solidarity with the young generations so that they may be involved in decision-making. All Andorran institutions therefore work with young people so they can take active part in political life and are endowed with the skills they need to manage their futures. As political leaders, we are responsible for creating opportunities for future generations, and that is one of the goals that we work hard to achieve so that our country will be able to offer opportunities for progress to new, increasingly well-trained generations and they need not envision a future a long way from home.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Our country is fully committed to education as an essential tool for achieving a fairer, more responsible society based on ethical values, critical vision and cooperative and supportive attitudes. Andorra’s educational structure is one of our country’s finest assets, as three plural and diverse public education systems — Andorran, French and Spanish— coexist, thus allowing us to ensure higher levels of tolerance, freedom and democracy in the education of our children and young people. Specifically, multilingualism is one the characteristic, differentiating elements of the Andorran education system. We therefore wish to give our support and commitment to action promoted by the United Nations on multilingualism as a tool for dialogue, communication, exchange and, in short, as a vehicle for peace.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The education of almost 90 per cent of students around the world was interrupted in late April 2020, which was detrimental to over 1.5 billion children of school age. Many have not set foot in a classroom since then. The collateral impacts of the pandemic have therefore been particularly intense in the field of education and have highlighted the need to give fresh impetus to schooling. I therefore wish to highlight the Secretary-General’s role in making education one of the core values of the United Nations system. A good example of this is the Transforming Education Summit, which was held in New York on 19 September. There is certainly no better tool for overcoming discrimination and prejudice than giving all children access to schooling, lifelong education and quality education.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The report features a detailed analysis of the 17 SDGs and describes the policies being implemented to guarantee Andorra’s sustainable, resilient and inclusive recovery, through the Horizon 23 Action Plan, the Government plan that, following the outbreak of the pandemic, we reformulated for this legislative term, and which ends next year. Globally, COVID-19 has had a negative impact on the progress and achievement of the 17 SDGs. In some cases, we have even strayed from the targets. The achievement of SDG 4, which calls for quality education and the priority objectives of which include the completion of free primary and secondary education for all girls and boys by 2030, is unfortunately far from a reality in many parts of the planet.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, over and above that, the common agenda proposed by the Secretary-General are powerful instruments that provide collective and holistic solutions and establish a deadline by which the goals must be achieved in order to build a better world in which human rights, a pillar of the United Nations, are the cornerstone of all of our actions. Andorra, which is firmly committed to the 2030 Agenda, presented its second voluntary national review in July.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Andorra has the highest capital city in Europe, at an altitude of over 1,000 metres, and an average altitude of around 2,000 metres. Mountain regions are of vital importance in natural systems, with their water cycles, influence on the climate, natural resources and biodiversity. Meanwhile, they are highly vulnerable environments. In Andorra, we have therefore been committed for years to caring for our natural heritage and make environmental protection a priority. Most countries have reappraised their actions or observed how some processes of change that were halfheartedly introduced before the COVID-19 pandemic now need to be accelerated, while others require strengthening.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Special emphasis is placed on combating the waste of resources and, specifically, of food. That is because we carefully monitor the reports of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the basic issue of the right to food, the second Sustainable Development Goal. We took active part in the 2021 Food Systems Summit, where I had the chance to highlight our fight against food waste and move towards sustainable food systems, which, alongside San Marino, we have had the honour to make a priority policy. Likewise, to mark the International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development —and since I have already mentioned the FAO — I would like to refer to the Mountain Partnership and its members, which raise awareness and offer insight, tools and action for the development of mountain regions.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We have pioneered in introducing a green tax and established a carbon price of €30 per ton, which will lead us towards more sustainable mobility. This has practical and clearly beneficial effects for our citizens, as the green fund has enabled us to finance more and better energy efficiency programmes and to become one of the world’s first countries to offer free public transport — a milestone reached just a few months ago, with indisputable success. Another law recently passed, the Law on Circular Economy, is also a remarkable and pioneering initiative that establishes 2035 as the deadline for changing from the current linear production model to a circular production model in which most waste becomes a byproduct that is reintroduced into the production chain.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“No issue has ever yielded such consensus among our parliamentary forces — a consensus that has made it possible to create a solid framework for action and continuity. We were one of the first parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to submit a national contribution in 2015, and to update it in 2020, with a view to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The Consell General— our Parliament — unanimously approved the Declaration of a State of Climate Emergency and the Law on Promoting Energy Transition and on Climate Change. We have indeed acted. I shall cite one example. Advances introduced in eco-taxation have led to the creation of a green fund that is allocated entirely to encouraging ecological transition and ensuring that the economic sectors with the greatest environmental impact contribute most.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The year 2023 will, in fact, give the Principality of Andorra an excellent chance to celebrate the multilateral order and to reiterate our firm and constant commitment to that order, as it will be the thirtieth anniversary of Andorra’s joining the United Nations and UNESCO. This anniversary also coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of our Constitution, which will provide an opportunity to familiarize our fellow citizens with multilateral institutions. Throughout our history, geography has shaped our character. Andorra is a high mountain region and therefore particularly vulnerable to climate change. We understand that the impact of this change has unleashed an existential struggle that must be overcome if we are to protect our territory.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Andorra believes in multilateralism, its values and its capabilities as an essential way of engagement and of working, to identify challenges, come up with solutions, propose consensus, promote fresh cooperation and keep lines of dialogue and action open. When we are all in attendance, as we are now at the United Nations, we can listen to everyone’s voice and establish truly successful proposals and action. This conviction means that our country is taking and wishes to take an active part in numerous multilateral organizations, as we understand that recovery and change can be achieved only through a spirit of collaboration and by encouraging synergies among peoples, however far apart they may be, in every sense.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Our adherence to multilateralism is based on the conviction that tackling crises, challenges and common threats requires a strong multilateral system, based on the universal values that inspired the Organization’s founding document, One may wonder what a country of just over 80,000 inhabitants and a mountainous territory half the size of New York City can do for a planet that will soon have a population of over 8 billion. It is our belief in our ability to set an example and in our role to face global and common challenges based on the responsibility and commitment we assumed 29 years ago when, with the approval of our Constitution, we entered the international scene and joined the United Nations.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Those values inspire our model of society and the order by which we would like international relations to be governed. The impact of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, moreover, is not limited solely to our region. The threat of a food crisis due to a shortage of distribution of agricultural resources on other continents has required negotiations to prevent it. The energy crisis and rising prices are also generating economic difficulties beyond Europe, which need to be rectified. The situation is not hopeful, yet we should not allow it to bring an end to real politics — politics that make what is necessary possible. We cannot allow unilateralism to prevail over multilateralism. This is how we understand it in Andorra, because a world without international rules or consensus would be a world governed by the law of the strongest.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The conflict is having a devastating impact on the civilian population and causing one of the worst refugee crises on the European continent since the Second World War, which is why Andorra has once again shown its solidarity by welcoming numerous Ukrainian families, to whom it has given the chance to live and to work in our country. That is also what we did in 2018, during the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Syria. As I explained in the political orientation debate held last week in the Consell General — our Parliament— although our voice in the world does not have the backing of a large population, armies, natural resources or a strategic geographical location, it is sustained by the fortitude of principles and values.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We now have the last opportunity effectively and forcefully to address the climate crisis, which is the most global and important challenge we are facing. Unfortunately, climate change is not the only transnational challenge besetting us. Just as we were starting to discern an improvement in the circumstances created by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, a clear violation of the United Nations Charter, has exposed cracks in the international order and corroborated the loss of respect for the common values that sustain our peaceful coexistence and that are the essence, or the raison d’etre, of this Assembly.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“I take this opportunity to congratulate the Secretary-General on his excellent work in what remains a very delicate context, which, unfortunately, has many points in common with the reasons for which the United Nations was founded, Indeed, today the world continues to experience a succession and accumulation of different crises, accentuated by the devastating impact on the planet of an economy that is nearing the end of its cycle and that has based its productivity on excessive use of raw materials. The planet is exhausted, and the symptoms are all too evident. The climate emergency is being felt in the form of heat waves, wildfires, water shortages and extreme phenomena that lead to catastrophes. The planet’s triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution affects everyone.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Abdullah Shahid and of the innovative and action-oriented initiatives he has encouraged over the course of a year, in which there has been no shortage of challenges. These have once again emphasized the essential role of the United Nations and the multilateralism it embodies. A year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic was still very much determining the social and economic policies of many countries, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned us that the global and multidimensional crisis generated by COVID-19 once again underlined global fragilities and structural inequalities. Global governance neither knew how to respond nor provided the appropriate means for vaccines to reach all countries, which left millions of people in a situation of extreme vulnerability.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“After two years of absence due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, it is an honour once again to take part in person in the General Assembly. I would like to start this address by congratulating His Excellency Mr. Csaba Korosi on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session. I also thank him for the motto he has chosen — “Solutions through solidarity, sustainability and science” — which we shall assume as our own and which is aligned with the principles applied in Andorra, from both a domestic and an international political perspective. He may rely on Andorra’s loyal support for the seventy-seventh session, and we wish him every success. Please allow me also to express my acknowledgement of the presidency of Mr.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Seventy-five years on, we need to be more aware than ever of the spirit that led to the birth of the United Nations. Thank you very much.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Andorra would like to use this Assembly to firmly reiterate its commitment to the United Nations, its agencies and multilateralism, to cooperation, inclusion and the solutions that this unique organization offers us. Its values all come together in the form of solidarity as a way to help us overcome a phase of humanity that is still full of uncertainties. Now more than ever, our country, true to its record of commitment to peace, stands beside the United Nations as it seeks to reshape a multilateral order that can help us meet the remaining challenges and deal with any possible changes, and we see this health crisis as an opportunity to put an end to a model of development and unsustainable globalization that has run its course. Now is the moment to make sure that solidarity can prevail in all its aspects.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“But we must pull together to revert this situation, and work from an open, integrated, participative and inclusive position such as that created by multilateral organizations. We need to make progress in many areas. We already know where we want to go, but getting there is always the most complicated part. This is why we want to recognize the work carried out by the Secretary General in reforming the development system, and the contributions that States have made to the resolutions and proposals for improvement. However, it is undeniable that we have no time to lose, and we must build up our knowledge about procedures and work with experts in efficiency if we want to respond to our commitment to the Charter and obtain the results of peace and security, rights and development.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Now, more than ever, we must appeal to and recognize the spirit and vision of the UN’s founders, who were able to overcome the obstacles of a terrible war as well as difference of opinions in order to preserve mankind. Far from being an ideal world, we know we must face up to challenges such as the persistence of conflicts that have still not been resolved, bloody scenarios, an imbalanced world from which poverty has not disappeared, where famine is on the increase, where access to health is not universal and where climate change is the clearest sign of structural deficiencies; in short, a world where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has several readings and applications.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)