New York, 24 September 2025 – Prime Minister Honourable Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka today addressed the United Nations Security Council, highlighting the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in maintaining international peace and security.
The Prime Minister stressed that while AI can strengthen conflict prevention, cyber defense, and humanitarian response, peace remains a human process involving trust, justice and political will.
“In conflict zones including in states affected by climate change and natural disasters, AI enhances the mapping and location of displaced populations,” he asserted.
“The UN Security Council therefore needs to consider a global governance architecture through an intergovernmental process on the use of AI in peace and security and to map clearly its risks and challenges.”
In this regard, Hon. Rabuka called for the establishment of a global governance architecture through an intergovernmental process to regulate the use of AI in peace and security, ensuring that its risks and challenges are clearly understood.
Highlighting the Pacific’s commitment to peace, Prime Minister Rabuka reaffirmed the Ocean of Peace Declaration, through which Pacific leaders have declared the region a zone of peace, free from military interference and built on respect, sovereignty, and human rights.
“I cannot over-emphasise the need for the UN Security Council to act in an inclusive process to examine the potential that AI has to offer including its risks in peace and security. We need to act swiftly together now,” he concluded.
