Speeches by 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...