UN General Assembly
2013

I am particularly pleased to extend congratulations to you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. I am indeed proud, given your stellar service to the General Assembly and of the service you have rendered to your native land, Antigua and Barbuda, and to the Latin America and Caribbean region in general. As a member of the Organization of the Eastern Caribbean regional group and the wider Caribbean region, Saint Kitts and Nevis pledges its full support to you throughout your tenure at the helm of the General Assembly. I am confident that your expertise and skills will position you favourably to guide the general debate and the extensive work programme of the various committees and agencies of this body. Sir, Saint Kitts and Nevis wishes to place on record its appreciation to your predecessor, the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session, Mr. Vuk Jeremi., for the important contributions that he made to advance the work of the institution during his own tenure. We begin the sixty-eighth session fully cognizant