Saint Vincent and the Grenadines welcomes, Sir, your ascension to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session with a great deal of anticipation. As one of the primary architects of your own country’s membership in the United Nations, you have demonstrated your belief in the imp…
The purpose of this United Nations summit is to consider our individual and collective progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which we committed to achieving by the year 2015. We have also gathered, as we have in the past, to reiterate our political commitment to achieving the MDG…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States in tribute to the memory of His Excellency Mr. Guido de Marco and His Excellency Mr. Samir Shihabi, Presidents of the General Assembly at its forty-fifth and forty-sixth session, respectively.
To be a President…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines aligns itself fully with the statement delivered on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Suriname. Given the limited time allotted to speakers in this High-level Meeting, I will not seek to be exhaustive in my…
I have the honour to speak today on behalf of the 14 States members of the Caribbean
Community (CARICOM), and to align CARICOM with the statement made by the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. CARICOM welcomes the initiative of Japan, in its capacity as President of the …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the 14 States members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). CARICOM aligns itself with the statement made earlier by the representative of the Republic of Yemen on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
CARICOM continues to believe that the United Nations, with…
I have the distinct honour of delivering this statement on behalf of the 14 member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
One of the greatest artists of our Caribbean civilization, the late Robert Nesta Marley, once sang in his song “Slave Driver”:
“Every time I hear the crack of a whip My b…
At the outset, the Government and people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines take this opportunity to extend deepest condolences to the people of the Philippines and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam for the lives tragically lost in the wake of tropical storm Ketsana. Our thoughts, prayers and soli…
From the perspective of Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines, it is impossible to overstate the importance of the issues of narcotic drugs and our international cooperation in addressing the problem. We therefore welcome this opportunity to address those topics and the numerous reports and studies that…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines of course aligns itself fully and enthusiastically with the statements made on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Non-Aligned Movement and the Group of 77 and China, and has very little to add other than to say that we welcome the adoption of resolution…
At the outset, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines aligns itself with the statements made on
behalf of the Caribbean Community, the Non-Aligned Movement and the States members of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines categorically condemns, in the strongest pos…
I have the honour to deliver this joint statement of the co-facilitators on behalf of the delegations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
We thank the General Assembly for adopting resolution 63/277 by consensus. Since our recent appointments as co-facilitators t…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines aligns itself with the statements made at the 53rd meeting by Barbados on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and by Cuba on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.
According to our Charter, the Security Council has the “primary responsibility for the maintenanc…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines associates itself with the statements made on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Non-Aligned Movement and the Group of 77 and China.
The year 2008 marks the seventeenth consecutive year that the United Nations is considering a draft resolution on this …
At the outset, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines expresses its solidarity with the people of Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica and the United States of America, who have been savagely battered in quick succession by Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike. Within the Caribbean and our America, the heroism, bravery and r…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines associates itself with the statements made by the Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis on behalf of the Caribbean Community and by the Minister of Health of Antigua and Barbuda on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
The theme of this high-level meeting is couche…
A famous French writer once said that a goal without a plan is just a wish. Today, halfway through our 15-year quest to realize the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and faced with the possibility that we are not on track to achieve the Goals, we must ask ourselves a fundamental question:
are the…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines fully associates itself with the statements made by the representative of Barbados on behalf of the Caribbean Community and by the representative of Grenada on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States at the 81st meeting, and the statement by the representative …
At the outset, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines takes this opportunity to express its deepest condolences to the people of Algeria and the staff of the United Nations on the senseless murders in Algiers. We unequivocally condemn that cowardly and barbaric act of terrorism.
Saint Vincent and the Gre…
Five and a half years ago, world leaders gathered in Monterrey and emphatically stated that
“[o]ur goal is to eradicate poverty, achieve sustained economic growth and promote sustainable development as we advance to a fully inclusive and equitable global economic system” (A/CONF.198/11, chap. I, re…
