Amara Camara, Minister of State, Secretary-General of the Presidency of Guinea, said after more than 66 years of independence, peace, coexistence, development and human rights are becoming a reality in his country.  However, Guinea’s hope in the United Nations to find appropriate solutions to the global challenges is increasingly giving way to concern, as no continent is spared from the world’s turmoil, with peace becoming a luxury and wars and conflicts becoming normalized.  “We must have the courage to acknowledge that the best years of our shared Organization may be behind us,” he said, regretting that “a mere denunciation of atrocities is far too often the ultimate level of international action”.

Amid the realities of climate change – worsening drought, scarcity of arable lands, increasing floods and increasingly unbearable heat - the international community must be prodded to deep reflection.  He said that to acknowledge “the end to an imbalanced and unjust era where Africa had no voice”, his Government chose to assert its national sovereignty by, among other actions, revoking several mining permits at variance with Guinea’s laws and mining codes.  Further, his country has achieved its first sovereign credit rating and has reached a “major milestone with this internal recognition”: one which places the African nation as the second-largest economy in French-speaking West Africa and making it accessible to favourable and more competitive international capital markets.

On respect for human rights, he observed that its “application throughout the world remains inconsistent, according to regions, actors, contexts and interests” and announced that the constitutional draft submitted to Guineans by referendum has been adopted by a large majority, attesting to his Government’s commitment to Guinea’s future.  “As of yesterday, 26 September 2025, following its promulgation by the Head of State, Guinea now has a constitution, marking its long-awaited return to the constitutional order, much awaited by our people and the international community”, he said.