UN General Assembly
2014

States were historically created and organized and the consequences of that for their standing and situation in today’s world. Specifically, at their meeting in July 2014, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community decided that a case for reparations should be elaborated beyond the relationship between ourselves and the relevant European Governments and that Caribbean States should, in seeking support for that objective, “advance the reparations case during the sitting of the United Nations General Assembly in 2014”. I carry out that mandate now on behalf of the Government and the people of Saint Lucia, who, in concordance with the peoples of other CARICOM member States, seek the award of reparations as a specific way in which those who in centuries past held the reins of power without accountability can now in recompense make a specific contribution to the nation-building programmes of our Governments beyond existing commitments. In that regard, we make a case for reparations as a matter of principle. Secondly, Saint Lucia has welcomed the deliberations of the third International Conference on