Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, President of Mongolia, said the United Nations has “illuminated the path of humanity, serving as a steadfast beacon of hope and trust for nations to maintain peaceful co-existence and share a prosperous future”.  He noted that the theme for the eightieth Assembly session challenges the international community to not only assess and reflect the Organization’s achievements and challenges since its founding but strengthen its work in accordance with the UN Charter and the principles of international law. Highlighting his country’s efforts towards the maintenance of global peace and security, he noted his government’s active collaboration with the United Nations in peacekeeping operations, and advancing proposals in the areas of socioeconomic development, environment, and climate change.  For the past 23 years, “Mongolia has deployed more than 23,000 peacekeepers to 16 United Nations peacekeeping missions and consistently ranked among the top 20 troop- and police-contributing countries out of more than 120 Member States”, he said.

He further announced that, as the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Security Council’s resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security approaches, his country has, by steadily increasing the deployment of female military personnel, reached 14 per cent in its women peacekeepers’ proportion in 2025.  “Mongolia will continue to extend its unwavering support to the United Nations in its efforts to maintain international peace and security, and remains committed to contributing to peacekeeping operations,” he said.  Turning to the Sustainable Development Goals, he pointed out that his government has implemented the goals to 66.7 per cent, placing it fourteenth on the United Nations multilateralism index, and further expressed pleasure that the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Seville, agreed to increase developing country engagement as well as take comprehensive actions to reform the current international financial architecture.

He urged landlocked developing countries to align their national development plans with the Awaza Programme of Action, while mobilizing all available resources to strengthen regional integration and cooperation.  He therefore urged the international community, including financial institutions and development partners to provide concrete support and cooperation for such countries.  Spotlighting Mother Earth as the “one and only home”, he warned that mankind’s careless behaviour towards the environment “is sending a distress call, like a patient in critical condition”.  And the failure to act to preserve the environment will cause Mother Earth to “inevitably find her own way to survive with or without us”.  His country is therefore willing to share its cultural heritage and traditional knowledge with the international community “as a valuable contribution to building resilience and enhancing adaptation to climate change”.  He called on countries to implement integrated management of land and water resources in a coordinated manner and place special emphasis on preventing water scarcity.

Desiring to preserve and safeguard cultural heritage and traditions associated with horses as well as their role in man’s livelihood, he announced his country’s proposal to designate 11 July as World Horse Day, a resolution which was adopted during the Plenary Meeting of the seventy-ninth session of the General Assembly on 3 June.  On gender equality, he noted that Mongolia has prioritized increasing women’s participation in decision-making, with women now occupying a quarter of positions in parliament.  The country is now ranked fifth place in the Asia-Pacific region and sixty-fifth globally, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2025 by the World Economic Forum, improving by 20 places from the previous year.  “We are confident that ensuring gender equality in senior leadership positions within the United Nations will undoubtedly have a positive impact on fostering more transparent, balanced, and inclusive decision-making processes,” he said.