Today we all stand at the edge of a precipice. Never before has humankind been confronted with such stark choices: to end wars or condemn humankind to endless suffering; to eliminate poverty or watch millions starve; to act on climate change or doom future generations to a scorched planet. The choic…
The multifaceted environmental, economic, health-related and social emergencies we face are perhaps humankind’s greatest existential challenges. The timing of this Summit is critical as we confront those unprecedented global threats. The decisions we make now impact not just us but generations to co…
First, I align my statement with those delivered by the representative of Samoa, on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island Devel oping States (AOSIS), and by the representative of Saint Kitts and Nevis, on behalf of the Caribbean Community.
I must offer commendation and appreciation to my fellow c…
I begin by offering thanks, on behalf of the Government and the people of Antigua and Barbuda, for the unwavering support we received in hosting the fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States. When Antigua and Barbuda decided to host the Conference, we did so with one focus in…
Antigua and Barbuda congratulates Mr. Dennis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session.
We are very proud of the contribution that the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are making to advance internationalism in the…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of my island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, which aligns itself with the statement made this morning by the distinguished and honourable Prime Minister of Vanuatu on behalf of the core group of countries that, together with Vanuatu, took the lead…
I have the honour of delivering this statement on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), the group of countries that are most reliant on oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development, owing to their unique characteristics, dependence and particular exposure to the oce…
As high representatives of our world’s nations gather at this seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly, our peoples would have been right to expect greater achievement of global peace and prosperous development.
Unfortunately, that has not happened. Seventy-seven years have passed since the …
On this solemn occasion of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Antigua and Barbuda wishes to join fellow member States of the Commonwealth of Nations and the States Members of the United Nations in paying its highest homage to Her Majesty.
For more than seven decades, Her Majesty the Que…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) — the 39 small island, large ocean States for whom the ocean is intrinsic to our cultures, communities and economies.
While the ocean is essential for life on Earth, unsustainable human activities …
It is my honour and a distinct privilege to introduce a pre-recorded version of the national statement of Antigua and Barbuda, to be presented by the Right Honourable Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Corporate
Governance of Antigua and Barbuda, His Excellency Mr. Gaston Alphonso Browne.
I take the floor on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations members of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC).
GRULAC considers this moment to be very timely, and this most solemn meeting to be very important. As the General Assembly, we join in honouring the victims o…
I have the honour and distinct pleasure to introduce His Excellency Mr. Gaston Alphonso Browne, Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Corporate Governance of Antigua and Barbuda, who will speak to the General Assembly in a pre-recorded statement.
It will surprise no one that climate change and its catastrophic consequences are foremost in my mind. As the leader of a small island State, which, two years later, is still suffering the damaging consequences of Hurricane Irma, we know and live the terrible reality of climate change. Those who con…
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda continues to monitor the situation in Venezuela with great concern and appeals to all sides to remain calm and focused on the Montevideo Mechanism, which is being facilitated by the Governments of Mexico and Uruguay and the Caribbean Community. All parties invol…
Let me begin by first congratulating you, Mr. President, on your leadership of this organ during the month of January. My country, Antigua and Barbuda, is extremely proud of your exemplary leadership as a small State in the Security Council for this month.
We cannot, and no one, can describe the si…
Year after year, Government leaders from across the world travel to this Hall in the United Nations in the hope of finding a pathway to universal peace and progress, which has persistently eluded us all. The people of our nations — rich and poor, large and small — have long since stopped paying much…
Antigua and Barbuda joins the rest of the world at this prestigious Peace Summit and, in particular, pays homage to Nelson Mandela, known as Madiba. Let us find within ourselves the resolve to confront the threats to peace for humankind in all their dimensions, a lesson that Mandela taught us by exa…
I have the sad duty to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States in tribute to His Excellency the late Mr. Dante Maria Caputo, President of the General Assembly at its forty-third session, who passed on 20 June. Mr. Caputo represented the developing world a…
