I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States and to convey the Group’s condolences and sympathy to the family of the
late King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia. As the guardian of his nation’s Islamic faith, King Fahd helped design and implemen…
I am pleased to be able to address the Assembly on the occasion of the second High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development. Three years after heads of State and ministers gathered in Monterrey and five years after the world summit that led to the Millennium Declaration, the international communi…
I stand before the General Assembly of the United Nations with an equal measure of pride and humility.
Of the more than 190 nations that make up the United Nations, Antigua and Barbuda is among the smallest in population and land mass. In the face of these strikingly modest statistics, my humility …
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. The Group wishes to thank the Secretary-General for the report contained in document A/63/83 and we also welcome the report just
introduced by the President of the Economic and Social Council and contained in docume…
My delegation voted in favour of the resolution on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, because of its importance in reiterating the relevance of the principles of self-determination and decolonization to the remaining Non-Self-Gove…
My delegation voted in favour of the resolution because it serves as the continuing legislative mandate for the wider United Nations system to provide support for the Non-Self- Governing Territories. The Economic and Social Council continues to adopt a similar resolution on this issue.
In that conn…
It gives me profound pleasure to welcome and congratulate Mr. Julian Hunte in regard to the lofty position that he now holds. It was not long ago that he was fighting alongside the ambassadors of the Latin American and Caribbean Group. He represents the smallest country that has ever ascended to the…
On behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, I wish to state the Group is firm that it in no way
challenged the President’s intention, nor had it any intention to challenge his ruling. The Group would like to propose that we suspend the meeting in order to allow the President to h…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC) with reference to the unfortunate decision of 29 January regarding the elections for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. I must state that GRULAC is united in its profound concern about a ma…
Let me express my country’s delight in having Mr. Jan Kavan preside over this fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly. Antigua and Barbuda owes much to the Czech Republic and the adherents of the religious ideas of Jan Hus, the Moravians, who arrived in Antigua in the mid-eighteenth century an…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the States members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Those States are the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada,
Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and my own …
Antigua and Barbuda is pleased that this is the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations. However, we can have meaningful dialogue only if the dominant countries reach out with genuine understanding when others speak. We can have dialogue only if the basic principles of the United Nations…
Thank you, Mr. President, for your correct pronunciation of Antigua.
Since this is the first time that I have had the honour to address the General Assembly at its fifty- sixth session, permit me to offer congratulations to you, Mr. President, on your assumption of your high office. Your reputation…
As the President said, I am speaking on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to introduce draft resolution A/55/L.35/Rev.1, entitled “Emergency assistance to Belize”. As listed in that document, the sponsors of the text are Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon,…
I stand to speak on behalf of the States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and to make clear that our position has not changed from the statement delivered by Ambassador Samuel R. Insanally of Guyana on 24 June 1999.
By and large, CARICOM supports the position of the Non-Aligned Movement with r…
It gives me great pleasure to introduce draft resolution A/55/L.24/Rev.1, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community”, on behalf of the member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Other countries have indicated an interest in co- sponsoring this draft in ad…
It gives me great pleasure to speak on behalf of the 14 member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM): the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Antigua and Ba…
Let me first of all congratulate Mr. Holkeri on his unanimous election to the mantle of the leadership of the world’s foremost international body. He is presiding in this, the last year of the present century, following the profound commitments manifested at the Millennium Summit. We look forward in…
This Millennium Summit will adopt a Declaration projecting a vision for the world. It will be a high-sounding document filled with laudable objectives and admirable pledges. We will assert that globalization should become a positive force for all the world’s people. We will acknowledge the importanc…
