By Sam Meredith, CNBC GLASGOW, Scotland — World leaders, campaigners and environmental activists representing people most threatened by climate change issued a defiant “warrior cry” at the COP26 summit on Monday: Do not compromise on 1.5 degrees Celsius. World leaders and delegates representing almost every country have convened in Glasgow, Scotland for U.N.-brokered climate talks, […]
By Sir Ronald Sanders The public health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has rightly focused the attention and resources of governments around the world on suppressing and containing it. The cause has been made more costly and more prolonged by those who resist inoculating themselves against a disease that has officially infected 227 […]
Thursday, October 1, 2020 — Statement by Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. the Hon Ralph Gonsalves, at the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday, September 26 2020. Click here to view speech to UNGA
Thursday, October 1, 2020 — Statement by Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis to the General Assembly Debate of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, September 26, 2020. Click here to view address to UNGA.
Thursday, October 1, 2020 — Statement by the Honourable Allen Chastanet, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, to the General Assembly Debate of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, September 26, 2020. Click here to view address to UNGA.
Thursday, October 1, 2020 — Statement by the Honourable Peter David, Minister For Foreign Affairs and Labour of Grenada, to the General Assembly Debate of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. Click here to view address to UNGA.
Thursday, October 1, 2020 — Statement by the Honourable Kenneth Darroux, Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Business and Diaspora Relations of the Commonwealth of Dominica, to the General Assembly Debate of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. Click here to view address to UNGA.
Thursday, October 1, 2020 — Statement by the Honourable Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, to the General Assembly Debate of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, September 25, 2020. Click here to view UNGA address.
By Sir Ronald Sanders – Friday, July 31, 2020 — (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and at Massey College, University of Toronto. The views expressed are entirely his own.) […]
Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis addressing the UN General Assembly. (Photo credit: UN/Loey Felipe) NEW YORK, NY, United States – Hurricane Dorian, one of the most destructive Atlantic storms ever recorded, “is a generational tragedy” for The Bahamas, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis has told the UN General Assembly. And he has urged fellow world leaders […]