Speeches by Ralph Gonsalves

Mr. President, I bring you greetings from the small and beautiful country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Please accept our congratulations on your electi...

The fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly affords me the special privilege, honour and pleasure of congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the of...

The fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the independence of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The last qu...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

It is my honour to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly. I also wish to pay tribute to the tirele...

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...

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...

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 ...

This evening, as the Chairperson of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I am very delighted and honoured t...

On behalf of Mexico, please accept our warmest congratulations. Sir. on your election as President. Latin America and the Caribbean feel wholly represented unde...