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…
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 …
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…
The many-sided complexities, contradictions and challenges manifest in the global political economy and system of international relations conspire to demand, more than ever, a United Nations fit for the purpose of ensuring a multilateral, rules-based international order of peace, security, prosperit…
As Robert Nesta Marley, a great poet of our Caribbean civilization, once paraphrased the Book of Psalms in song, “the stone that the builder refuse, will always be the head cornerstone”. As it was in biblical and musical verse, so it is in modern geopolitics. Small island developing States (SIDS), i…
One decade ago, the world was convulsed by a cataclysmic collapse of its economic order. The devastating global economic and financial crisis began in the boardrooms of greedy banks and spread worldwide, with a rapidity that exposed the shortcomings of an unethical and unregulated international fina…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is situated in what has been called a zone of peace, and we owe our continued peaceful existence to a robust body of international law and the United Nations. But it was not always so. The genocide of all native peoples by the colonial Powers and the atrocity of slav…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is proud whenever a member of our small island developing States assumes the presidency of the General Assembly. As we thank the outgoing President for his noble efforts, we place special trust in the new President to lead our Assembly at this crucial juncture. From …
In the Christian Bible, the Book of Proverbs suggests that mortal men live for threescore and ten years, a number that fairly accurately reflects the current modal life expectancy of the global population. Today we have assembled for the seventieth time in the life of the United Nations with the leg…
We have gathered together at this special assemblage of world leaders to adopt a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative goals and targets, known collectively as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to take humankind further along the journey of a glob…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines would like to begin by fully aligning itself with essentially all of the statements that have been made, in particular with the statements delivered by our Caribbean Community (CARICOM) colleagues — the Prime Minister of Jamaica and the Ministers of Antigua and Barbu…
We gather this week to reaffirm our commitment to peace, justice and development. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines proudly recognizes Mr. John Ashe, son of our Caribbean soil and President of the General Assembly at the sixty-eighth session, and commends him for his invaluable contribution in advanc…
For the second time in my tenure as Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, I have the pleasure and honour to welcome a distinguished son of our Caribbean civilization to the presidency of the General Assembly. Even as we thank your immediate predecessor for his service as the President …
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that there are over 26 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) around the world. Those people have been driven from their homes by wars, political disputes, criminal activity and natural disasters. There is no reg…
My country extends heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his assumption of his responsibilities as President of the General Assembly at this crucially important session. We also express our appreciation to his predecessor, Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of the State of Qatar, who left an i…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is grateful for the opportunity to address this critically important High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development. We align ourselves fully with the statements made by the representative of Argentina on behalf of the Group of 77 and by the representative of Jamai…
I am pleased to add my voice to the unanimous acclaim of His Excellency Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser as President of the General Assembly for this, our sixty-sixth session. A skilful and seasoned diplomat, he has played an integral role in establishing the State of Qatar as a central and crucial a…
Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of your important position. I would also like to thank the Credentials Committee for its report (A/66/360), and the many
representatives who have spoken this morning, elucidating their various positions on this matter.
In recent month…
At the outset, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines warmly welcomes His Excellency Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. We are grateful for his personal involvement and for Bolivia’s championing of this worthy initiative.
Last year, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was an …
“The world must stand together to demonstrate that international law is not an empty promise” (A/64/PV.3, p. 11).
“No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation. No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed. ... The traditional divisions between …
