Situation room · The record
906 statements in the last 60 days, in their own words
Tone over time
NATO → Russia · 59 statements
conciliatory ↑23 Sept – 1 Oct↓ hostile
NATO → United States · 35 statements
conciliatory ↑23 Sept – 30 Sept↓ hostile
Russia → Ukraine · 31 statements
conciliatory ↑21 Sept – 4 Oct↓ hostile
Russia → West · 31 statements
conciliatory ↑28 Sept – 1 Oct↓ hostile
NATO → Ukraine · 28 statements
conciliatory ↑23 Sept – 1 Oct↓ hostile
United Kingdom → Russia · 28 statements
conciliatory ↑22 Sept – 2 Oct↓ hostile
China → United States · 19 statements
conciliatory ↑22 Sept – 3 Oct↓ hostile
Latvia → Russia · 19 statements
conciliatory ↑28 Sept – 5 Oct↓ hostile
United Kingdom → Ukraine · 19 statements
conciliatory ↑20 Sept – 2 Oct↓ hostile
Latvia → Ukraine · 18 statements
conciliatory ↑28 Sept – 5 Oct↓ hostile
Russia → NATO · 18 statements
conciliatory ↑1 Oct – 4 Oct↓ hostile
Finland → Ukraine · 16 statements
conciliatory ↑22 Sept – 2 Oct↓ hostile
906 statements, newest first
Vladimir Putin · President, Russia · 5 Oct
“It would be hard to overestimate your personal contribution to the development of the strategic partnership and alliance between Tajikistan and Russia.”
Vladimir Putin · President, Russia · 5 Oct
“I will be delighted to continue our constructive and friendly communication and our fruitful cooperation on the topical issues of the bilateral, regional and international agendas.”
Egyptian Presidency · Presidency, Egypt (joint statement with Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan) · 5 Oct
“peaceful means”
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi · President of Egypt · 5 Oct
“require cooperation, not competition, and dialogue, not confrontation, including the management and use of natural resources and transboundary rivers in accordance with international law”
Egyptian Presidency · Presidency, Egypt (joint statement with Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan) · 5 Oct
“unilateral measures”
Badr Abdelatty · Foreign Minister, Egypt · 5 Oct
“absolutely nothing to do”
Ethiopia · Government, Ethiopia · 5 Oct
paraphrase Eritrea is directly backing the Tigray rebels, with added support from Sudan and Egypt.
Eritrea · Government, Eritrea · 5 Oct
paraphrase Ethiopia is planning to invade Eritrea and seize access to its coastline.
Debretsion Gebremichael · Leader of the TPLF · 5 Oct
“We operate under a strategy to strike the enemy wherever we choose,”
Pro-government militia commander · Commander, Ethiopia (pro-government militia) · 5 Oct
“We have taken control of Mekelle and we are marching forward,”
Edgars Rinkēvičs · President of Latvia · 5 Oct
paraphrase Praised excellent relations between Latvia and Estonia and thanked Estonia for regular hands-on support in patrolling the Latvian-Belarusian border.
Edgars Rinkēvičs · President of Latvia · 5 Oct
paraphrase Expressed Latvia's solidarity with Estonia after recent acts of sabotage against Estonian defence industry company Milrem Robotics orchestrated by Russian secret services.
Edgars Rinkēvičs · President of Latvia · 5 Oct
paraphrase Said Russia uses these attacks and acts of sabotage to undermine support to Ukraine, cause confusion among people and test NATO.
Edgars Rinkēvičs · President of Latvia · 5 Oct
paraphrase Believes there is no reason to adjust the military threat assessment and that a direct attack from Russia is currently very unlikely.
Edgars Rinkēvičs and Margus Tsahkna · President of Latvia and Foreign Minister of Estonia, Latvia; Estonia · 5 Oct
paraphrase Both officials agreed that further development of defence capabilities and military presence of allies, including the US, is a must.
Edgars Rinkēvičs · President of Latvia · 5 Oct
paraphrase Highlighted successful coordination of Baltic-Nordic cooperation (NB8 format) by Estonia, especially on regional security and Ukraine support agenda.
Johann Wadephul · Foreign Minister, Germany · 5 Oct
“For more than four years now, we have been witnessing Putin’s brutal and illegal war of aggression against Ukraine.”
Johann Wadephul · Foreign Minister, Germany · 5 Oct
“Especially with a view to the approaching winter, Russia is systematically targeting civilian heating and energy infrastructure.”
Johann Wadephul · Foreign Minister, Germany · 5 Oct
“There is no room in this Assembly for those who wage illegal wars of aggression!”
Johann Wadephul · Foreign Minister, Germany · 5 Oct
“Only today, our Estonian friends announced that Russia was clearly responsible for the arson attack in Tallinn on the night of 14 to 15 August.”
Johann Wadephul · Foreign Minister, Germany · 5 Oct
“All this because Putin is under the illusion that, through these actions, he can sow uncertainty in our free societies.”
Johann Wadephul · Foreign Minister, Germany · 5 Oct
“We stand firmly by the side of the Ukrainian people.”
Johann Wadephul · Foreign Minister, Germany · 5 Oct
“We will complete our ratification process for Germany’s accession to the Convention establishing an International Claims Commission by the end of the year.”
Esmail Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Iran · 5 Oct
““structural nihilism””
Esmail Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Iran · 5 Oct
“"In the end we all die anyway, so it doesn't matter."”
Esmail Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Iran · 5 Oct
““We all die” is a fact; “so it doesn't matter” is the leap where existential dread becomes a political weapon.”
Esmail Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Iran · 5 Oct
“Appeasement buys no safety - it merely negotiates the order of the victims.”
Brazil Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil · 5 Oct
paraphrase On July 27, Brazil submitted a request for consultations with the United States under the WTO dispute settlement system.
Brazil Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil · 5 Oct
paraphrase The request concerns two US tariff measures adopted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974: a Brazil-specific investigation that imposed an additional 25% tariff covering digital trade and electronic payment services, preferential tariffs, anti-corruption enforcement, intellectual property protection, ethanol market access and illegal deforestation; and a 60-economy investigation that imposed an additional 12.5% tariff on Brazil concerning prohibitions on imports of goods made with forced labor.
Brazil Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil · 5 Oct
“Brazil considers the US measures to be unjustified and inconsistent with US obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (GATT 1994) and the WTO's Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes.”
Esmail Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Iran · 5 Oct
“condemned the violent treatment of protesters by French security forces and called on those whose human rights claims have become deafening to respect fundamental human rights and basic freedoms when dealing with labor-related protests by school and university students”
Esmail Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Iran · 5 Oct
“French officials who describe the treatment of armed terrorists trained by the Israeli regime by Iranian security forces as a violation of human rights, themselves tolerate not the slightest violent act at peaceful gatherings against the police and suppress protesters in the harshest manner”
Esmail Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Iran · 5 Oct
“stressed the need for protesters to refrain from violent behavior and causing damage to public and private property, as well as from attacking security and law enforcement personnel”
Esmail Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Iran · 5 Oct
“called for investigation into allegations that security forces had used severe violence against protesters”
Brazil Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil · 5 Oct
“Throughout his reign, Harald V worked to further strengthen Brazil-Norway relations, having visited the country on several occasions. In 2003, he paid a State visit to Brazil, accompanied by an important business delegation. Ten years later, he spent four days in a Yanomami village in the Amazon.”
Brazil Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil · 5 Oct
“The Kingdom of Norway is the main donor to the Amazon Fund and, together with Brazil, is part of the Steering Committee of the Tropical Forests Forever Fund (TFFF), conceived to support tropical forest conservation, officially launched during COP30 in Belém.”
Prime Minister of Australia · Prime Minister of Australia · 5 Oct
“Australia and Fiji entering into a new alliance, only our fourth alliance in Australia's history”
Prime Minister of Australia · Prime Minister of Australia · 5 Oct
“It is important that Pacific voices are heard, because the Pacific is the front line of action on climate change”
Prime Minister of Australia · Prime Minister of Australia · 5 Oct
“For many of the nations represented by leaders here, it is literally a threat to their very existence, which is why the world must act”
Esmil Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Iran · 5 Oct
paraphrase Called on the Canadian government to provide evidence, transparency and accountability regarding the fate of Indigenous children and unmarked graves linked to the country's residential school system, in a post on X marking Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (September 30).
Esmil Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Iran · 5 Oct
paraphrase Said Canada's Indigenous children were taken from their families, stripped of their names, languages, cultures and identities, and subjected to a system of forced assimilation, with many suffering abuse and neglect and many dying far from home and buried in unmarked graves, and that this question still haunts the conscience of the world.
Esmil Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Iran · 5 Oct
paraphrase Said reconciliation cannot be reduced to a commemorative day or political rhetoric, and that when serious questions remain unanswered and the history of residential schools is contested or obscured, reconciliation remains incomplete.
Esmil Baghaei · Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Iran · 5 Oct
“No reconciliation without truth. No justice without accountability.”
Rashad Al-Alimi · Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, Yemen Presidential Leadership Council · 5 Oct
“We have instructed the armed forces, security forces and all military formations to begin carrying out their assigned tasks under an approved plan until the country is liberated from the Houthis,”
Saudi-led coalition in Yemen · Saudi-led coalition in Yemen · 5 Oct
paraphrase The Saudi-led coalition pledged to continue supporting the Yemeni government and armed forces in efforts to restore state institutions and end the Houthi takeover.
Esmaeil Baqaei · Foreign Ministry spokesman, Iran Foreign Ministry · 5 Oct
paraphrase The Strait of Hormuz is the main focus of Iran's negotiations to end the war with the US.
Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Isaias Afwerki, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Presidents of Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia · 5 Oct
paraphrase The leaders rejected unilateral measures that could harm Egypt and Sudan's water rights amid the dispute with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, and rejected interference in internal affairs of countries in the region under any pretext.
Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Isaias Afwerki, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Presidents of Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia · 5 Oct
paraphrase The declaration affirmed support for Sudan's sovereignty, territorial integrity and institutions while rejecting the establishment of any parallel entities, calling for a Sudanese-owned and Sudanese-led political process and rejecting any support for mercenaries.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy · President, Ukraine · 5 Oct
paraphrase Kyiv had agreed to join US-proposed trilateral technical talks in the United Arab Emirates.
Syria · Syria · 5 Oct
“flagrant breach”
Anthony Albanese · Prime Minister, Australia · 5 Oct
“Australia is proud to stand with our Pacific family and co-host these events with Fiji and Tuvalu, putting our region’s priorities on the world stage.”
Anthony Albanese · Prime Minister, Australia · 5 Oct
“This builds on the work we’ve been undertaking to boost stability, security and prosperity in the region – which is crucial to Australia’s national interest.”
Anthony Albanese · Prime Minister, Australia · 5 Oct
“Pre-COP in the Pacific will allow the world to hear directly from those on the front line of climate change and see the solutions that these nations are leading.”
Prime Minister of Australia · Prime Minister, Australia · 5 Oct
paraphrase At COP30 Australia secured the role of COP31 President of Negotiations and agreement to deliver a Pacific-hosted Pre-COP including a special Leaders' event, which Australia will co-host with Fiji and Tuvalu to lay foundations for COP31 negotiations in Antalya in November 2026 and elevate Pacific priorities
Edgars Rinkēvičs · President of Latvia · 5 Oct
paraphrase President Rinkēvičs told Anduril Industries co-founder Palmer Luckey that Latvia offers infrastructure advantages for rapid testing of military technologies, in a discussion of global military technology trends and innovations.
Edgars Rinkēvičs · President of Latvia · 5 Oct
“Thank you, the United States, for your friendship! The United States is Latvia's strategic partner. Latvia seeks targeted cooperation with the US, which is why I am joined on this visit by representatives from the defence, film and biomedical sectors. We must continue our close cooperation and work together at both the political and business levels.”
Edgars Rinkēvičs · President of Latvia · 5 Oct
“Latvia is a competitive place in Europe where a US company can cooperate with Latvian researchers and doctors in developing and testing new genomics solutions, while also making use of Latvia's connection to the wider European research area,”
Edgars Rinkēvičs · President of Latvia · 5 Oct
“Latvia has a clear understanding of current security threats. Development of technologies and capabilities is crucial for credible deterrence and defence posture of NATO’s Eastern flank. Rapid response capabilities are an important component of security technologies, significantly enhanced by integration of various systems. Latvia has two key advantages that are rarely found together: testbed and experience that comes from being”
Edgars Rinkēvičs · President of Latvia · 5 Oct
paraphrase President Rinkēvičs discussed with Kratos Defense management opportunities for Latvia-US cooperation focused on space, satellite communications and advanced information and communication technologies.
Andris Kulbergs · Prime Minister, Latvia · 5 Oct
paraphrase He sees the parliamentary election result, in which his United List party more than tripled its seats, as a strong mandate for his pro-Ukrainian course.
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