I wish to offer deep and sincere condolences to the Government and people of the Syrian Arab Republic on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States in regard to the passing of President Hafez Al-Assad, the widely respected President of Syria. It is quite clear to the world at large t…
I speak on behalf of the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). In reality, it is a privilege to do so, albeit in reference to a most sad and disastrous occasion.
What has happened in Venezuela — and, indeed, what is happening in the Americas — causes us to reflect on the changes which thi…
I have the honour to address the General Assembly on the issue of the decolonization of the remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories, a matter of particular interest to the 14 member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
As we come to the close of this penultimate year of the International D…
Allow me at the outset to express my support for the statement made on Monday by the representative of Guyana on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. I also wish to commend Ambassador Julia Alvarez of the Dominican Republic for her untiring efforts in support of the United Nations agenda for older p…
Antigua and Barbuda offers hearty congratulations on the election of the president of the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session. His efforts towards bringing about the independence of Namibia are well known, and many of us remember when he occupied a seat on the right side of
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On behalf of the Government and people of Antigua and Barbuda, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to preside over the General Assembly at this fifty-third session. You are well known to envoys from my country who have worked with you and who can attest to your humanistic and unp…
I have been assured by the delegations of Guatemala, Peru, Saint Lucia and other members of the group of Latin American and Caribbean States that the representative of Guatemala had sought to announce that he was withdrawing from the present round of voting as the result of an agreement made among t…
On behalf of the Government and people of Antigua and Barbuda, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to preside over this fifty-second session of the General Assembly. You are well known to many of the envoys to the United Nations, and we feel confident that under your guidance we …
It is with profound pleasure that I salute the President, a diplomat of experience and stature and one worthy to preside over the functions of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly. I wish to recall that it was his country and mine that brought the question of Antarctica to the United Nati…
Forty-five years ago, in 1950, a destructive hurricane battered my island country. It destroyed our small homes, levelled our sugar-cane fields, left death and destruction in its path and made Antigua and Barbuda a destitute colony. It was the very worst hurricane that Antigua and Barbuda had ever e…
Two weeks ago, on 4, 5 and 6 September, a terrible natural disaster struck the vulnerable small island States of the eastern Caribbean. A hurricane, unprecedented in both size and fury, unleashed wind gusts of more than 160 miles per hour stretching over a 700-mile area. Pounding surf and sheets of …
When my Prime Minister, the Honourable Lester Bryant Bird, addressed the Assembly on 6 October 1994, he said:
Now that the most perilous chapter of the crisis in Haiti has come to an end, another equally significant challenge faces the international community. How can we collectively help to transf…
I am speaking today on behalf of the developing countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) - the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent …
I speak today on behalf of the member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) — the Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Dominica; Grenada; Guyana; Jamaica; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; and my own country, Antigua and Barbuda — and Suriname.
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When my Prime Minister, Mr. Lester Bryant Bird, addressed the General Assembly four weeks ago, he said:
The United Nations Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, which was held in Barbados last April and May, surely inspired greater hope in the minds of …
This is the first time I have had the opportunity to address the Assembly since Mr. Amara Essy was elected President; let me therefore congratulate him warmly on behalf of the Antigua and Barbuda delegation. His election is a tribute to his experience and a testimony to his outstanding abilities. My…
Five hundred years ago, beginning in 1492, distant worlds began to collide. One very robust and technologically advanced civilization seemed to have easily overpowered several others. Within a short historical period following the first encounter of 1492 Western Europeans were able to exercise domin…
My delegation is compelled to add its voice to the din of proposals which have been heard from this rostrum today on the history- making question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council.
When Antigua and Barbuda spoke in the general debate in the Genera…
In 1965 three of the Caribbean’s most outstanding statesmen created an institution to foster cooperation and to quicken the pace of their countries’ development. Errol Barrow of Barbados, Forbes Burnham of Guyana and V.C. Bird of Antigua and Barbuda met at Dickenson Bay, Antigua. There, they signed …
Antigua and Barbuda join with the
rest of the world community of nations in applauding the efforts of the United
Nations in the Decade of Disabled Persons. We are honoured to be part of the
discussion that evaluates the activities of that Decade.
I come from a part of the world that is so beauti…
