UN General Assembly
1987

This leads me to my second question Can a small State contribute anything of value to the international community? The answer to that question is equally obvious to Barbadians, for we contend that small States can and do make valuable contributions to the international community. Indeed, the international community as we perceive it today owes its very survival to the small States of this world. Large and powerful States often succumb to the illusion that they can forgo multilateral diplomacy that they can dispense with international co-operation, that they can rely on "balance of power", "spheres of influence" and "alliances" to protect and promote their national Interests abroad. Small States, on the other hand, cannot court self-delusion. They must be active participants in the international community. They must be steadfast practitioners of international co-operation. They must be vigorous exponents of multilateral diplomacy and firm supporters of international organizations.