Hilda Heine: “Taiwan and its 23 million people are an objective reality, and only its democratically elected government can represent…”

Warning that appeasement never satisfies an aggressor's wider agenda, Heine urged U.N. representatives not to pursue appeasement and called on the organization to address the security dilemma by ensuring that no one is left behind.

In years to come, every nation in this hall may be told that aggression or coercion upon Taiwan is an internal matter, somehow justified by an ancient U.N. seating chart resolution, a resolution which doesn't even reference Taiwan.

The Marshall Islands expresses its grave concern over increased efforts to spread dangerous disinformation in these halls.