UN General Assembly
2014

must spare no effort to ensure that we have a legally binding agreement on this matter in 2015. Ironically, as we discuss the post-2015 development agenda, many Caribbean Community countries are being graduated from eligibility for concessionary financing, since they are classified as middle-income based on the narrow measure of gross domestic product per capita. In addition, many of those countries are heavily indebted, as they must make unavoidable investments in building and rebuilding social, economic and productive infrastructure to strengthen their resilience. We call on the international community to reconsider that approach by adding a vulnerability index to the equation. We also call for debt relief, as the debt accumulated by most of those countries makes their economies unsustainable. The most important precondition for progress is peace. Many conflicts and potential for conflicts continue unresolved, while new threats to global security have risen to dangerous levels. The situation in the Middle East is the most disturbing. Still at the heart of it is the great tragedy that is the plight of the Palestinian people. Once again,