We need a reset. And we need to reset. Those of us here today, representing our brothers and our sisters the world over, have endured four years of polycrises. As the children of Mother Earth, we continue to wrestle with the climate crisis. As a human family, we grapple with the legacy of the pandem…
We are one, and we come today as one human family, sharing one planet intent on building together a common future based on shared hope and mutual interests, consciously working together to find common solutions. Our interconnectedness has long been recognized in spiritual traditions and practices ar…
I should like at the outset to congratulate my dear brother from Trinidad and Tobago on his assumption of the office of the presidency of the General Assembly.
I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his continued determination and for holding us and the rest of the world to the princi…
Allow me, at the outset, to congratulate Mr. Csaba Kőrösi on his election as President of the General Assembly and to thank Secretary-General António Guterres and Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed for their courageous leadership and commitment in very difficult times.
This year we come togeth…
At the outset, please permit me to congratulate Secretary-General António Guterres and Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on their reappointments, and the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-sixth session on his election.
If I used the speech prepared for me to deliver today, it w…
At the outset I would like to congratulate Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session, and to pledge Barbados’s support throughout his tenure. I also want to thank his predecessor for her able and astute leadership over the course of…
Let me begin by congratulating Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on her election to preside over the General Assembly at its seventy-third session, and in particular for being the fourth woman in the 73-year history of the United Nations to receive the high honour of being elevated to the position …
First of all, let me express the sadness of the Barbados Government at the passing of Mr. Kenneth Dadzie, who for almost four decades distinguished himself in public service, both for the United Nations and for his own country, Ghana.
It is an honour for me to address the General Assembly at a time…
