Saint Vincent and Grenadines

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

VCT
2024Session 79
Ralph Gonsalves

Mr. President, Your Excellencies, Despite a quarter century of analysis, advocacy, and prescriptions set forth by the leaders of Small Island Developing Stat...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2023Session 78
Ralph Gonsalves

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...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2022Session 77
Ralph Gonsalves

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 civili...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2021Session 76
Ralph Gonsalves

Mr. President, Excellencies: We are convened at this 76th Session of the United Nations’ General Assembly at a time of severe health, socio-economic, political,...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2020Session 75
Mr. Ralph Gonsalves

Mr. President, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates and Friends, Seventy-Five years ago, our predecessors founded this noble institution as the primary interna...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2019Session 74
Mr. Ralph Gonsalves

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...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2018Session 73
Mr. Ralph Gonsalves

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 board...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2017Session 72
Sir Louis Straker

Our Organization was founded amid the still glowing embers and simmering tensions of global war. In the shadows of widespread death and destruction, the nations...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2016Session 71
Mr. Ralph Gonsalves

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 th...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2015Session 70
Mr. Ralph Gonsalves

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 mo...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2014Session 69
Camillo Gonsalves

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 o...

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St. Vincent and the Grenadines

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2013Session 68
Ralph Gonsalves

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 ...

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Saint Vincent and Grenadines

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2012Session 67
Ralph E. Gonsalves

My country extends heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his assumption of his responsibilities as President of the General Assembly at this cruciall...

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St. Vincent and the Grenadines

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2011Session 66
Ralph Gonsalves

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 six...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2010Session 65
Camillo Gonsalves

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 anti...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2009Session 64
Camillo Gonsalves

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 Philipp...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2008Session 63
Ralph E. Gonsalves

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 b...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2007Session 62
Ralph E. Gonsalves

It is with a profound sense of anticipation that I welcome Mr. Kerim’s assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session. In a...

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St. Vincent and the Grenadines

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2006Session 61
Dr. The Honourable Ralph E. GONSALVES

Our President arises in this Assembly as a breath of fresh air and presides as an inspiration to women, particularly in the Middle East, and to human beings ...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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2005Session 60
Ralph E. Gonsalves

The sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations coincides with the commemoration of my country’s twenty-fifth year of independence. The preamble to the Constitut...

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