UN General Assembly
2013

It is my distinct honour and pleasure to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government, at their thirty- fourth meeting in July, pledged their support for your presidency. Allow me therefore to assure you of my delegation’s support throughout the current session of the General Assembly. Let me also commend your predecessor, Mr. Vuk Jeremi., for ably guiding the work of the General Assembly during its sixty-seventh session. You have assumed leadership of the General Assembly at a very pivotal moment in the United Nations timetable. The expiration deadline for the Millennium Development Goals is near, and our efforts to elaborate an agenda for the post-2015 period are intensifying. Following the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, modifications have been made to the institutional framework for sustainable development. An agreement has been reached on the establishment of the High-level Political Forum and the United Nations Environment Assembly. The deliberations on the reform of the Economic and Social Council have