राष्ट्रसंघ महासभामा प्रधानमन्‍त्री वालेन्द्र शाहको पूरा सम्बोधन

0:01The assembly will hear an address by his

0:03excellency Belendra Sha, Prime Minister

0:05of Nepal. I request protocol to escort

0:08his excellency and invite him to address

0:11the assembly.

0:18[applause]

0:29Mr. President,

0:32Mr. Secretary General, excellencies,

0:35distinguished delegates,

0:37ladies and gentlemen, I come before you

0:39from Nepal, a distant country in

0:42Himalayas carrying a close warning for

0:44humanity. I wish I could stand here

0:47today simply to talk about development,

0:50democracy, peace, and the hopes of a

0:54young nation. Instead, I must speak

0:56about death and destruction of epic

0:59proportion. About families waiting for

1:02loved ones will never come home. About

1:06communities searching through the mud,

1:08rocks, water for the people bodies

1:12may never be recovered. about bridges,

1:16about roads, schools, homes, livelihood

1:19swept away in minutes, about a country

1:22whose steady progress to achieve

1:23sustainable development goals has been

1:25interrupted.

1:27Four weeks ago, the world saw shocking

1:29images of catastrophic floods that swept

1:32away Nepal's mountain communities with

1:35ferocity. Many have called mountain

1:37tsunami or Himalayan tsunami. The

1:40Bauticoi Triculi disaster was not just a

1:42local tragedy. It was a warning to the

1:45world. And I ask you today, have we

1:47really heard that warning? Nearly 3

1:50years ago, standing in the shadow of our

1:52Mount Everest, the Secretary General of

1:54United Nations warned humanity about the

1:57madness and impending climate disaster.

2:00That cry from the rooftop of the world

2:02was not heard enough loudly. We in Nepal

2:06heard it. Our communities heard it.

2:08Scientists around the world heard it.

2:10They repeated it with evidence. But we

2:13the political leaders have been

2:15negligent to translate those warning

2:18into action at the speed and scale that

2:20the vulnerable people require. Last

2:23month we saw the tragic consequences.

2:26A warming climate that that is

2:27destabilizing the fragile Himalayan

2:29ecology melting perafrost that are

2:32fracturing mountains slopes beneath the

2:35glaciers and accelerating the risk of

2:37ice rock avalance floods landslides and

2:40other cascading hazards. The resulting

2:43devastated

2:44The resulting devastation unleashed

2:47havoc on both sides of Nepal China

2:49border. The flood continued downstream

2:51to the India. This tells of us something

2:54fundamental. Climate change does not

2:57recognize borders. Glaciials and floods

2:59do not travel with stamps and passcodes.

3:03Excellencies, I'm not here to complain

3:05but to share some suggestions. First, I

3:07wish to express Nepal's deep gratitude

3:10to all those who came to our aid

3:12aftermath of the delus. Our immediate

3:15neighbors India and China offered prompt

3:17and generous assistance. Other friendly

3:19countries, the United Nations system,

3:22humanitarian agencies, philanthropies

3:24and people around the world stood with

3:25Nepal. To all of them, I say thank you

3:28on the behalf of grateful people of

3:30Nepal.

3:33[applause]

3:39Nepal now faces a massive task of

3:41recovery and reconstruction.

3:43After at least 1400 death and over

3:4666,000 people still missing, a rapid

3:49assessment peg physical recovery needs

3:51at about 10% of GDP. As in rebuilding

3:55after post disaster like 2015 Gorka

3:58earthquake, we count on your solidarity

4:00and support. But we must also understand

4:03why this disaster matters beyond Nepal.

4:06Nepal contributes less than 0.1% of

4:09global greenhouse gas emission. We did

4:12not create this crisis. Yet we are

4:14paying for Yet we are paying a colossal

4:18price for it. Our glaciers are

4:20retreating. Our mountain slopes are be

4:22becoming unstable. Our rivers are

4:24becoming less predictable. And every

4:26major disaster threatens to the to erase

4:28years of development for Nepal. Climate

4:31catastrophe is not just a humanitarian

4:34event but a development emergency. It

4:37destroys roads, bridges, schools, homes,

4:39farms and livelihoods. It destroys clean

4:43energy infrastructure that we need to

4:45fuel our future and and it forces a poor

4:49country to borrow money to repair damage

4:51it did not cause.

4:53But we are not here to blame any country

4:56or continent. We are here

5:00we are not here to turn climate change

5:02into another geopolitical battlefield.

5:05We are here to ask everyone to recommit

5:07to shared responsibility and solid

5:09solidarity through the United Nation

5:12framework convention on climate change.

5:14The international community has already

5:16agreed to the principle of common

5:18differentiated responsibility and

5:21respective capabilities.

5:23Those who have historically contributed

5:25more to the problem and those with

5:26greater capacity to respond must do

5:29more. Climate justice cannot remain a

5:33beautiful phrase in United Nations

5:34document. People of our country be

5:37allowed to build their future instead of

5:38constantly rebuilding their past.

5:41Excellencies, the Hindukush Himalay is

5:43home to nearly two billion people. These

5:45mountains provide water, ecosystem,

5:48agriculture and livelihood to population

5:50far beyond Nepal. The Himalayas are not

5:53peripheral to the planet. They are part

5:55of planet's life support system. That is

5:58why as an urgent first step, we propose

6:01that we establish Himalay climate

6:03resilience mechanism led by Nepal, India

6:06and China. Through this mechanism,

6:14Through this mechanism, let us share

6:16satellite data and expertise. Let us

6:18monitor dangerous glacial legs. Let us

6:21strengthen joint early warning systems

6:23and when disaster strikes let us

6:25coordinate assistance across borders.

6:28Let the Himalayas become laboratory of

6:30international cooperation rather than

6:32frontier of fragmented information.

6:35Remark remarkable for at least developed

6:37country. Nepal is already paying a

6:40global role exceeding its ecological

6:42share. We have restored forest cover

6:44nearly half of our territory. We are

6:47installing hydropower at a pace enough

6:48to power all clean energy needs and

6:51displace dirty sources abroad. We are

6:54promoting electric mobility with an

6:56adoption rate to match parts of Europe.

6:58We are strengthening climate adaptation

7:00at local level and we shall do more to

7:03withstand increased intensity and

7:05frequency of climate disaster. But Nepal

7:07cannot build resilience alone against

7:10the crisis made worse by the failure of

7:12global governance. This is why this is

7:14this is why this assembly must note six

7:17words relief, rehabilitation,

7:20reconstruction and also responsibility,

7:23reparation, resilience. The first three

7:26are what we need after disaster.

7:29The second three are what we need to

7:31ensure that disaster does not become a

7:33permanent condition. When a

7:34climate-driven disaster destroys

7:36infrastructure of a poor country, the

7:38answer cannot simply be another mega

7:40loan or a patchwork of small grants. We

7:43need adequate grant-based support.

7:52We need adequate grant-based support

7:54from the world. The loss and damage

7:55fund, the global environment facility

7:58and other financing mechanism remain

8:00grossly inadequate. Climate finance must

8:03not become bureaucr another bureaucratic

8:06maze through which vulnerable countries

8:08spend years that they need help. When

8:11the house is burning, we do not ask

8:13family to complete 50 forms. We act.

8:16This is what climate justice must mean.

8:18Excellencies, this brings me to a larger

8:21question. What kind of international

8:23order do you want? The United Nation was

8:26born from humanity's experience of

8:28horrific world war. It promis its

8:30promise was the sovereignty would

8:32matter, international law would matter,

8:35the dignity of every human being would

8:37matter and the weak would not simply

8:40have to accept whatever the powerful

8:42decide. Today that international system

8:44is under strain. Too often military and

8:47economic power determines whose whose

8:49voice is heard. Nepal believes we need

8:52much fairer global economic order. In

8:551994, UNDP's human development report

8:58conceptualized the notion of human

9:00insecurity. It equated security with

9:03people rather than territories and with

9:05development rather than arms. It called

9:08for the peace dividend to secure

9:10freedoms from fear and want. The new

9:13majority government in Nepal elected

9:15through the fairest and most peaceful

9:17elections in our history this March has

9:20had to weather many international adver

9:22adversities since when a poor farmer in

9:25Nepal went to sew her seeds in monsoon

9:29fertilizers didn't reach her on time

9:31when we wanted to pave a new highway

9:33there was no bitamine when a family sat

9:35down for an evening meal there was

9:37shortage of cooking gas on the on the

9:40one hand there are melting glaciers and

9:42failing harvest to floods arriving

9:44without warning. On the other hand, a

9:46global supply chain punishes poor people

9:49for causes beyond reason.

9:51Intercontinental missiles arrive on

9:53time. Rifles and ominations cross

9:56border, clear every bottleneck, meet

9:58each deadline. But a pan in Nepal cannot

10:00procure his fertilizer or fuel at market

10:03price at a time of need. We have built a

10:06world with flawless

10:11>> [applause]

10:17>> We have built a world with flawless

10:19logistics for war and broken logistics

10:21for food. And this is not Nepal's

10:24private misfortune. Ask Bangladesh, ask

10:26Bhutan, ask India, ask the Maldives, ask

10:30Pakistan, ask Sri Lanka, ask any other

10:32country in our region and you'll hear

10:34the same account. Hit by the climate we

10:37did not warm and again hit by the wars

10:39we did not start.

10:45This tells us there is a lot more broken

10:48than meets the eye in the global

10:50cooperation. Excellencies, I'm told I'm

10:53the youngest head of government to

10:55address this assembly this year.

11:03I did not come here to make that a

11:05story. I came to make sure what whatever

11:08else is said from this podium, one thing

11:10is said plainly. A country that is

11:12willing to pay should be able to buy.

11:15And a world that is and and a world that

11:17can deliver a weapon anywhere in 72

11:19hours has no excuse for leaving a farmer

11:22without means of decent livelihood.

11:28This is why we believe in

11:30multilateralism. This is why we need

11:33United Nations in which presence of

11:35small poor country is felt and we can

11:37work together towards outcomes. Climate

11:40justice is therefore not only about

11:41money. It is about distributive justice

11:44who bears the cost. It is about

11:46procedural justice who has a voice. It

11:48is about it is about whether future of

11:51mountain communities, small island

11:53states, landlock and least developed

11:55countries and generation yet unborn

11:58count equally. Starting tomorrow at the

12:00Sagar Mata to seaside event right here

12:02at United Nations, Nepal is ready to

12:04help lead this conversation. Mr.

12:07President and excellencies,

12:09we are at this general assembly at a

12:11moment of profound global uncertainty

12:13and with a rene renewed democratic

12:16mandate that reflects the aspiration of

12:17new generation. Our youths have demanded

12:20a politics of integrity and

12:22accountability.

12:24The generational shift is not only a

12:26national story. It is part of global

12:28awakening against conflict, inequities

12:31and lack of opportunities.

12:33The commitment of my government is clear

12:35to build a state that delivers decent

12:38jobs, social protection, and a fair

12:40chance to every Nepali to thrive at

12:43home. The Nepal floods signal a future

12:46saved

12:50The Nepal flood signals a future saved

12:52by rising climate extremes. Our

12:54baselines are no longer relevant

12:57and we must move from ad hoc responses

12:59to a culture of preparedness. Let us

13:02finance resilience and invest in

13:04insurance and innovation. Let us build

13:06stronger infrastructure and

13:08institutions.

13:09Let us reduce fossil fuel dependence.

13:12Let us build system that warn, alert and

13:14save lives. Let us reform the order that

13:17leaves the weakest with least power. And

13:20when the next warning comes from the

13:21rooftop of the world, let us be ready to

13:24hear it and ready to act.