Supply chains built up over decades of interdependence are being reorganized or fragmented as a result of geopolitical tensions. The multilateral trading system has been weakened, and the WTO can no longer fully carry out some of its essential functions. Yet what is at stake here is not merely a technical issue of trade policy. The question is whether relations between states will continue to be governed by common rules, or if they will increasingly depend on the weight and power of each individual state. For Switzerland, this is a fundamental issue. That is because my country is an open economy with few natural resources. A large part of its prosperity, therefore depends on trade, but also on the stability and predictability of the rules that make such trade possible. Economic resilience requires us to diversify relationships, forge new partnerships, and keep trade between different regions of the world as open as possible. This is particularly important for economies with fewer resources or limited market access. Access to markets knowledge and technology can create opportunities that would not otherwise exist. These abstract concepts encompass quite concrete realities a business that can take on an apprentice, a family that can secure a more stable income, a producer who can trade beyond their local market. Young people for whom the range of possibilities suddenly widens. That is also what we mean when we talk about a global economy. Trust is built when the rules offer everyone a genuine opportunity to participate.

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Protectionism produces no winners. Building walls, erecting barriers. Decoupling and cutting off supply chains disrupt global industrial and supply chains, and harm the interests of all parties. We must firmly safeguard the WTO centered, rules based multilateral trading system, build an open world economy, jointly foster and strengthen new growth drivers, and see that economic globalization is inclusive and delivers benefits to all.

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Mr. president, Brazil does not underestimate the challenge represented by organized crime. We are ready to face the criminal organization that terrorize our local communities. Workers are robbed. Mothers lose their children. Police officers do not make it back home. People are tired of violence. But we will not. We will not outsource the responsibility of defending its borders and guaranteeing our population the right to live without fear. We do not need aircraft carriers guarding our waters. We need cooperation to block the flow of weapons and money that feeds crime, organized crime. That's the spirit of the proposal that I personally handed to the US president. We want to fight money laundering carried out by Brazilian criminals abroad. For a long time, Brazilian states acted each in their own way. Crime made the most of the lack of coordination. But this is changing in Manaus, a city of the Amazon state. We created the Amazon International Police Cooperation Center, bringing together public safety authorities from nine Amazon region countries. In 2025, we carried out the biggest operation against organized crime in Brazil's history. We broke records of drug seizures as well as unlawful assets and resources. We are facing all levels of crime, including the crime tycoons, the anti faction bill that we just have passed. Establish heavier sentences for organized crime than those carried by terrorism, organized crime and corruption. Walk hand in hand. The fight against corruption shall remain relentless. No matter who it hurts. No one is above the law. Ladies and gentlemen, the pillars of multilateralism are being eroded. The World Trade Organization is being kept on life support. When governments capsulate vis a vis those who use tariffs as weapons of coercion and blackmail, consequences are harmful. In the age of misinformation, obscurantists resist the evidence of science.

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We must also empower Africa to play a more active role. Africa, with its 55 states and more than 1.4 billion inhabitants, cannot remain on the margins of the bodies that shape the rules of global trade. On behalf of the African Union, I reiterate our continent's call for full and equitable representation within the World Trade Organization. This is not a favor we are seeking. It is a demand for justice. It is also a guarantee of progress for the entire multilateral trading system. With the African Continental Free Trade Area, our continent has already demonstrated its capacity to develop rules and to integrate markets. It is now up to global trade governance to draw on this. But in order to succeed, we must be more resilient in order to preserve an environment favorable to agriculture, a source of life, and food security. Indeed, Mr. President, climate change strikes the most vulnerable populations particularly hard. Africa has contributed little to historical greenhouse gas emissions, yet it is already suffering severe consequences. We, therefore, call for stronger international solidarity on adaptation, climate financing, and technology transfer.

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These include the National Climate Fund, through which Somalia is mobilizing and coordinating urgently needed climate finance. The Independent National Human Rights Commission, established to Somalia, established to strengthen the protection and promotion of human rights, and the Somali Disaster Management Agency established, which is on the front line of responding to the humanitarian crisis in Somalia. Somalia's membership of the East African community. Our leadership in the Horn of Africa Initiative. Our ratification of the agreement establishing the African Continental Trade Area Free Trade Area. And our continuing efforts towards accession to the World Trade Organization. Demonstrate Somalia's commitment to the regional integration and rules based international order. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, financing is vital for development.

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