Barbados thanks the Secretary-General for the report prepared for review at this meeting (A/68/825).
My delegation aligns itself with the statement delivered earlier today by the representative of Trinidad and Tobago on behalf of the Caribbean Community. I will focus on key aspects of Barbados’s pr…
On behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, I would like to again extend congratulations to the six recipients of the 2013 United Nations Human Rights Prizes.
This year’s celebration of Human Rights Day is marked by a confluence of three watershed moments in the history of human …
It is my distinct honour and pleasure to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government, at their thirty- fourth meeting in July, pledged their support for your presidenc…
As a signatory to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Barbados fully supports the…
On behalf of the 14 member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I wish to deliver this statement on agenda item 113, “Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit”.
At the outset, the Caribbean Community expresses its appreciation for the note by the Secretary-General (A/67/373), which…
On behalf of my delegation, I have the honour to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremić, President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session, on his election. I assure him of the full support and cooperation of the delegation of Barbados during his presidency. Let me also convey my a…
Barbados is pleased to join with a significant and diverse group of Member States in sponsoring draft resolution A/66/L.43, entitled “Improving global road safety”.
As a small State with limited resources, Barbados can ill afford the economic and social costs caused by traffic accidents. The availa…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the 14 States members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that are Members of the United Nations: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadin…
I am pleased to convey my greetings to the President and to offer him the congratulations of my Government and the delegation of Barbados on his election as President of the General Assembly at this sixty-sixth session. Those of us who are familiar with the very high standards to which he routinely …
I bring you greetings from the Government and the people of Barbados. I hope that the report I will share today on our benchmarks of effectiveness within our national AIDS programme will add some value to the collective
knowledge required for greater success in the global prevention and control of …
It is my honour to address the Assembly on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC).
Exactly 25 years ago, the world witnessed the worst accident in the history of the nuclear power industry. The disaster at Chernobyl was a major catastrophe. It caused the release of larg…
I wish to thank you, Mr. Vice-President, and to commend your graciousness in arranging for the Assembly to honour the late beloved Prime Minister of Barbados, The Honourable David John Howard Thompson, Queen’s Counsel and Member of the Parliament of Barbados. I also wish to thank my colleagues, who …
I am honoured to address the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados.
The theme of this year’s session, concerning the role of the United Nations, multilateralism and global governance, is timely, and it permits an examination of the…
I join with fellow delegates in congratulating Ambassador Deiss on his efficient leadership of the General Assembly. The Barbados delegation also commends him and his Co-Chair for the hosting of this high-level summit. It serves as motivation to complete the journey started in 2000. We all committed…
It is my special privilege to address this High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs), a subject of critical concern to Barbados and the countries of the Caribbean. The Caribbean is the region of the Americas worst affected by the epi…
On behalf of my delegation, I am pleased to join the speakers who have preceded me in congratulating Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session. He may rest assured of the full support and cooperation of Barbados as he carries out h…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the 14 States members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that are also members of the United Nations on agenda item 9, “Report of the Security Council”, and item 111, “Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Cou…
It is with great pleasure that I associate the delegation of Barbados with previous speakers who have congratulated the President on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. We are particularly proud to see a fellow member of the Latin American and Caribbean…
At the outset, my delegation would like to endorse the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Egypt on behalf of the Joint Coordinating Committee of the Non-Aligned Movement. I should also like to thank the co-facilitators for the system-wide coherence process during the sixty-third sessi…
Barbados has the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States on the occasion of the
approval by the General Assembly of the appointment of Judge Navanethem Pillay of South Africa to the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Group congratula…
