Official Interventions

Participating delegations shared their vision for strengthening democracy through Summit for Democracy Official Interventions, linked below:

• Albania   – Prime Minister Edi Rama
• Angola  – President João Lourenço
• Antigua & Barbuda  – Prime Minister Gaston Browne
• Argentina  – President Alberto Fernández (English )
• Armenia  – Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
• Australia  –  Prime Minister Scott Morrison
• Austria  – Former Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg
• The Bahamas  – Prime Minister Philip Davis
• Barbados  – Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley
• Belgium  – Prime Minister Alexander De Croo
• Belize  – Prime Minister John Briceño
• Botswana  – President Mokgweetsi E.K. Masisi
• Brazil  – President Jair Bolsonaro (English )
• Bulgaria  – President Rumen Radev
• Cabo Verde  – Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva (English )
• Canada  – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
• Chile  – President Sebastián Piñera
• Colombia  – President Iván Duque (English )
• Democratic Republic of the Congo  – President Félix Tshisekedi (English )
• Costa Rica  – President Carlos Alvarado Quesada (English )
• Croatia  – Prime Minister Andrej Plenković
• Cyprus  – President Nicos Anastasiades
• Czech Republic  – Prime Minister Andrej Babiš
• Denmark  – Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen
• Dominica  – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
• Dominican Republic  – President Luis Abinader (English )
• Ecuador  – President Guillermo Lasso (English )
• Estonia  – Prime Minister Kaja Kallas
• European Union (Commission)  – President Ursula von der Leyen
• European Union (Council)  – President Charles Michel
• Fiji  – Acting Prime Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
• Finland  – President Sauli Niinistö
• France  – President Emmanuel Macron (English )
• Georgia  – President Salome Zourabichvili
• Ghana  – President Nana Akufo-Addo
• Greece  – Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis
• Grenada  – Prime Minister Keith C. Mitchell
• Guyana  – President Mohamed Irfaan Ali
• Iceland  – Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir
• India  – Prime Minister Narendra Modi
• Indonesia  – President Joko Widodo
• Iraq  – Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi
• Ireland  – Prime Minister Micheál Martin
• Israel  – Prime Minister Naftali Bennet
• Italy  – Prime Minister Mario Draghi
• Jamaica  – Prime Minister Andrew Holness
• Japan  – Prime Minister Kishida Fumio
• Kenya  – President Uhuru Kenyatta
• Kiribati
• Republic of Korea  – President Moon Jae-in (English )
• Kosovo  – President Vjosa Osmani
• Latvia – President Egils Levits
• Liberia – President George Weah
• Lithuania – President Gitanas Nausėda
• Luxembourg  – Prime Minister Xavier Bettel
• Malawi  –  President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera
• Maldives  – President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih
• Malta  – Prime Minister Robert Abela
• Marshall Islands – President David Kabu
• Mauritius  – Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth
• Mexico  – Ambassador Esteban Moctezuma
• Micronesia  – President David W. Panuelo
• Moldova  – President Maia Sandu
• Montenegro  – Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić
• Namibia  – President Hage G. Geingob
• Nauru  – President Lionel Aingimea
• Nepal  – Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba
• Netherlands  – Prime Minister Mark Rutte
• New Zealand  – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
• Niger  – President Mohamed Bazoum (English )
• Nigeria  – President Muhammadu Buhari
• North Macedonia  – President Stevo Pendarovski
• Norway  – Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre
• Palau  – President Surangel S. Whipps, Jr.
• Panama  – President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen (English )
• Paraguay  – President Mario Abdo Benítez (English )
• Peru  – President Pedro Castillo (English )
• Philippines  – President Rodrigo Duterte
• Poland  – President Andrzej Duda
• Portugal  – President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
• Romania  – President Klaus Iohannis
• Saint Kitts and Nevis  – Prime Minister Timothy Harris
• Saint Lucia  – Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  – Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves
• Samoa  – Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa
• São Tomé and Príncipe  – President Carlos Vila Nova (English)
• Senegal  – President Macky Sall (English )
• Serbia  – President Aleksandar Vučić
• Slovakia  – President Zuzana Čaputová
• Slovenia  – President Borut Pahor
• Spain  – President Pedro Sánchez (English )
• Suriname  – President Chandrikapersad Santokhi
• Sweden  – Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson
• Switzerland  – President Guy Parmelin
• Taiwan  – Minister Audrey Tang
• Trinidad and Tobago  – Prime Minister Keith Rowley
• Ukraine  – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (English ) 
• United Kingdom  – Prime Minister Boris Johnson
• Uruguay  – President Luis Lacalle Pou (English ) 
• Zambia  – President Hakainde Hichilema

View the list of invited participants to the Summit for Democracy