Antigua

41 speeches

Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2024Session 79
Gaston Alphonso Browne

Mr. President Secretary-General Distinguished Delegates Today, we all stand at the edge of a precipice. Never before has humanity been confronted with su...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2023Session 78
Gaston Alphonso Browne

Antigua and Barbuda congratulates Mr. Dennis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session. ...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2022Session 77
Gaston Alphonso Browne

As high representatives of our world’s nations gather at this seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly, our peoples would have been right to expect great...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2021Session 76
Gaston Browne

Your Excellency Abdulla Shahid Secretary-General, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates Mr President I congratulate you on your election to the presidency of th...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2020Session 75
Mr. Gaston Alphonso Browne

Mr President Secretary-General Distinguished Delegates Happy 75th anniversary Collectively, the member states of these United Nations are failing in our respons...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2019Session 74
Mr. Gaston Alphonso Browne

It will surprise no one that climate change and its catastrophic consequences are foremost in my mind. As the leader of a small island State, which, two years l...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2018Session 73
Mr. Gaston Alphonso Browne

Year after year, Government leaders from across the world travel to this Hall in the United Nations in the hope of finding a pathway to universal peace and p...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2017Session 72
Mr. Gaston Alphonso Browne

On 6 September, my small, two-island State, Antigua and Barbuda, was the victim of the ferocity of Hurricane Irma, the largest storm endured in the Atlantic in ...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2016Session 71
Mr. Gaston Alphonso Browne

On behalf of my Government and my people, I congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-first ses...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2015Session 70
Mr. Gaston Alphonso Browne

Democracy, peace, security, rule of law and respect for human rights are crucial elements in achieving the economic and social development to which my people as...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2014Session 69
Gaston Alphonso Browne

At the outset, I wish to extend heartiest congratulations to the President on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth sessi...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2013Session 68
Winston Baldwin Spencer

I stand in the Hall today as the leader of one of the smallest countries in the world — small by size, population and resources. I also stand here today with...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2012Session 67
Winston Baldwin Spencer

I wish at the outset to extend my heartiest congratulations and the assurances of my cooperation and highest esteem to President Jeremić on his election to the...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2011Session 66
Winston Baldwin Spencer

Let me at the outset commend Mr. Al-Nasser on his unanimous election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. I hereby pledge to him ...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2010Session 65
Winston Baldwin Spence

Let me at the outset commend you, Sir, on your unanimous election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session. I pledge my delegation’s s...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2009Session 64
Winston Baldwin Spencer

On behalf of my Government and the people of Antigua and Barbuda, I congratulate you, Sir, on your election to preside over the sixty-fourth session of the G...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2008Session 63
Winston Baldwin Spencer

I wish at the outset to extend heartiest congratulations and assurances of my cooperation and highest esteem to Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann on his election...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2007Session 62
Winston Baldwin Spencer

Let me first congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the sixty-second session of the General Assembly. I also congratulate His Excellency Mr....

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2006Session 61
Justin L. SIMON

Antigua and Barbuda joins other Members of the United Nations in congratulating Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa on her election to the presidency of the Gener...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
2005Session 60
Trevor Walker

This is the first time that a representative from the island of Barbuda has had the honour to address the General Assembly. For my country, the nation of Antigu...

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