UN General Assembly
2024

Seventy-nine years ago, in the wake of war’s devasta:on, visionaries sought to build a world where diplomacy and dialogue could triumph over destruc:ve intolerance. Yet, today, we stand on the precipice of a perilous return to a world where peace is kept at gunpoint, where weapons are roman:cized, and violence is exalted in the pursuit of absolute power. We need more than diploma:c pla:tudes. We need a humanity steeped in decency, jus:ce, equity and inclusivity. We must rise from these chambers, not resigned to the idea that the children of Hai:, Congo, Sudan, and Pales:ne are less deserving of the rights and freedoms that we enjoy. We are all one people, one world. We cannot have peace without jus:ce, nor jus:ce without true, solid equality. RISING TIDES, RISING THREATS In the Caribbean, our lived reality is of rising :des washing away our hopes, of unforgiving heat se‘ng ablaze our dreams. We pray for rain and receive the flood, dragging our homes and our future to the abyss.