I wish to congratulate Ambassador Yang on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly.
I also offer my best wishes to the outgoing President, Ambassador Francis, and thank him for leading us for the past year.
Over the past three years, the Bahamas has been pleading with Member States t…
As we look around today, there are wars and rumours of war. Some countries have marched into other countries and claimed the space as their own, simply because their troops are standing all over the land. We all ascribe to the Charter of the United Nations provisions on territorial integrity, but th…
The Bahamas aligns itself with the statements delivered by the representatives of Uganda, Samoa and Belize on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, the Alliance of Small Island States and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), respectively.
At the outset, the Bahamas wishes to congratulate the Governmen…
It is an honour and a privilege to return to this rostrum this year. This is my tenth appearance here. I am proud to be back to this most important forum, but doubly so because a son of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the wider Caribbean region sits as its President. I therefore wish Ambassado…
The Commonwealth of the Bahamas aligns itself with the statements delivered by the representative of Saint Lucia on behalf of the Caribbean Community (see A/77/PV.71) and to be delivered on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States.
The Bahamas has fallen off track in implementing the Sendai Fr…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC).
Please allow us to express our gratitude to the President for the convening of this important commemorative plenary meeting. It gives us and other Member States the unique honour of r…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (GRULAC) to commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
We continue to remember and honour the victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and re…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the 14 States members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
At the outset, we would like to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Michal Mlynár, Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the United Nations, and His Excellency Mr. Tareq M. A. …
I have the honour to address the General Assembly on behalf of the 14 States members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on agenda item 36, entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”.
The Caribbean Community al…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the 14 member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in support of resolution 77/1, adopted today.
CARICOM expresses its sympathy to the families and loved ones of those who perished and are still suffering and grieving, and we extend our support to the …
Next year we will mark 50 years since the Bahamas became a fully independent sovereign nation. Our accession to full membership of the United Nations in 1973 was inspired by a recognition of the interdependence of this family of nations and by the hope that dialogue and partnership can be a path to …
I wish to express appreciation on behalf of the Bahamas to Ambassador Khan for presenting the report of the Human Rights Council to the General Assembly (A/76/53 and A/76/53/ Add.1), the contents of which have been noted.
As an active member of the Council and with our Permanent Representative in G…
On 16 September, Bahamian citizens took to the polls to make their voices heard. It is an honour to meet with the General Assembly fewer than 10 days after this peaceful exercise of the democratic process.
I wish to extend congratulations to the Maldives, a sister small island developing State, on …
I have the honour to introduce the pre-recorded statement by the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, His Excellency Mr. Hubert Alexander Minnis.
I congratulate Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session. I assure him and the members of the Bureau of the support of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas during his tenure. I also extend our congratulations to his pre…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the 14 States members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) at this General Assembly plenary meeting on the momentous occasion of the commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the twenty-fifth anniversary of th…
I have the honour of delivering, on behalf of the 14 States members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), this statement on agenda item 121, regarding the report of the Secretary- General on the programme of educational outreach on the transatlantic slave trade and slavery (A/73/88).
The triangular…
I have the honour to address the General Assembly on behalf of the 14 States members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on agenda item 43, entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”.
I would like to acknowledg…
I congratulate the President on her election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-third session. I wish to assure her and members of the Assembly of my delegation’s support. I commend Secretary-General António Guterres, who continues to guide the Organization through a process of…
I wish to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit in support of global
peace. Amid the wars, conflicts, violence, injustice, hunger and bitter hatreds that stalk the global commons today, we find hope in the commemoration of the centenary of the bir…
