UN General Assembly
2024

I’m sorry but we can’t keep doing this. We can’t keep meeting, talking, pledging but not doing. We don’t want these days to come back to haunt us. The days when we had a chance but not a will. We believe the best approach to protecting fundamental rights is to cultivate a culture of respect for those rights. This requires support. The Maldives has a good track record of treaty ratification, implementation and reporting. We champion the right to environment, because we are keenly aware of the consequences of environmental degradation. We also believe that violation of a right by any country – large or small, rich or poor, with powerful friends or not – must not be tolerated.