I would like to extend greetings to the Foreign Minister of Cuba, who is with us in the Hall today.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines aligns itself with the statements delivered on behalf of the Caribbean Community, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, the Group of 77 and China and …
Today, we are presented with a historic opportunity. The Summit of the Future has been billed as the chance for us to reinvigorate our multilateral system, particularly following the 2023 Sustainable Development Goal Summit. That system has been ailing for far longer than many of us would wish to ac…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the L.69 group, a diverse, pro-reform group of cross-regional developing countries in favour of justice, sovereignty and equity in the reform of the Security Council.
Allow me to begin by expressing our deep gratitude to you, Mr. President, a…
We begin by underscoring our support for the statements delivered by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations and by Uganda on behalf of the Group of 77 and the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (see A/78/PV.89), and we wo…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines abstained in the voting on resolution 78/282, entitled “International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica”.
We acknowledge that after the devastation wrought by the wars in Yugoslavia, including the Srebrenica genocide, as recogniz…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the L.69 group, a diverse, pro-reform group of cross- regional developing countries united by a common desire for reform of the Security Council that ensures its credibility, representativeness, transparency, democracy and effectiveness.
We b…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
CELAC welcomed the steps that were taken between 2015 and 2016 by Cuba and the United States to commence the process of normalizing their diplomatic relations, which began a new chap…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on Trinidad and Tobago’s assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session. We also affirm our solidarity with the Governments and the peoples of the Kingdom of Morocco and Libya at this …
I have the honour to speak at today’s high-level meeting on behalf of the 33 member States of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
We thank Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament affairs; Mr. Robert Floyd, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-…
We align ourselves with the statement made on behalf of the Caribbean Community (see A/77/PV.71).
My country, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, has faced a vivid demonstration over the past few years of the perilous fragility of hard-won developmental gains, particularly for small island developing S…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the L.69 group, a diverse, pro-reform group of 29 cross- regional developing countries, including but not limited to Barbados, Bhutan, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Malawi, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sa…
Permit me to take this opportunity to extend fraternal greetings to Mr. Bruno Rodríguez, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, who joins us today.
My delegation also wishes to align itself with the statements made earlier by the representative of the Bahamas, on behalf of the Caribb…
In these dawning years of the third decade of the twenty-first century, despite the progress and huge potential for the further upliftment of the world’s civilizations, the human condition is overwhelmingly racked by global turmoil, convulsions, dislocations and the gravest uncertainties about the f…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the floor. I am delivering this statement on behalf of the L.69 group, a diverse, pro-reform group of 29 cross- regional developing countries in favour of justice, sovereignty and equity in reform of the Security Council, both in the process an…
I also thank Special Envoy Pedersen, Under-Secretary- General Griffiths and Ms. Ballour for their briefings.
For over a decade, the Syrian people have endured the perils of war and the resulting effects of living through one of the worst humanitarian crises the world has witnessed. The country’s di…
It is an honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council — Kenya, the Niger and Tunisia — as well as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (A3+1). We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom, Ms. Saeed, Director of the Coordination Divis…
I also thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Ambassador Skoog and Ambassador Byrne Nason, in her capacity as Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), for their briefings.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines remains committed to the full implementation of resolution 2231 (2015). A…
We thank our briefers for their presentations this morning. We welcome our colleague, the Permanent Representative of Yemen.
It is unfortunate that we have to begin our remarks today with a statement of condemnation of the continued hostilities in Yemen, including the recent indiscriminate strikes …
I would also like to thank Judge Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz for their very comprehensive briefings (see S/2021/694). Saint Vincent and the Grenadines reaffirms its unwavering support for the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, which remains an essential pillar of the interna…
For the past two years, I have had the privilege to chair the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014), and I welcome this opportunity to brief the Security Council on the Committee’s activities during this period. Before I proceed, allow me to extend my gratitude to…
