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• SVG Delegation Holds 14 Bilateral Meetings During Week of 63rd UN General Assembly

  The Saint Vincent and the Grenadines delegation to the opening of the 63rd United Nations General Assembly met bilaterally with the representatives of 14 countries, including Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Iran, Phili...

• CARICOM Addresses UN on "Globalisation and Interdependence"

  Click HERE to read the Statement NEW YORK, NY, October 29, 2008: Speaking today on behalf of CARICOM, Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves delivered a statement to the United Nations Economic and Financial Committee on the subject of "Globalisation an...

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Defends Right of States to Determine Position on the Death Penalty

  NEW YORK, NY, November 20, 2008: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Permanent Representative to the United Nations opposed efforts to impose an international moratorium on the use of the death penalty, arguing that each country has the right to...

• SVG Calls for Targeted and Active ECLAC Response to the Financial Crisis

  February 9, 2009, UNITED NATIONS (NEW YORK): – In brief remarks to the Economic Comission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Permanent Representative Camillo Gonsalves called for a greater attention...

• SVG Remains Outspoken in Informal Plenary on Security Council Reform

  February 19, 2009, UNITED NATIONS (NEW YORK): – Claiming to be "confused" and "disappointed" by the purported commencement of intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Permanent Representative Cami...

• SVG Establishes Formal Diplomatic Relations with Principality of Monaco, United Arab Emirates

  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has established formal diplomatic relations with the Principality of Monaco and the United Arab Emirates ("UAE"). Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves, Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to th...

• SVG Proposes Amendment to Allow for Members of Cross-Regional Groups to Sit on Security Council

  March 5, 2009, UNITED NATIONS (NEW YORK): – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines today proposed an amendment to the United Nations Charter that would allow greater membership opportunities for representatives of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and o...

• SVG Calls for Global Controls to Combat Illicit Trade in Arms

  March 6, 2009, UNITED NATIONS (NEW YORK): – Stating that the global trade in arms called for "global controls," Lennox Daniel, Deputy Permanent Representative (DPR) of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations, called for urgent...

• SVG Calls for Measures to Restrict Use of Veto and its Concentration of Power in the Hands of Few

  March 16, 2009, UNITED NATIONS (NEW YORK): – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines today offered a nuanced and detailed suggestion to curtail the Security Council's veto power and make it more diffuse. Speaking at the Seventh Informal Plenary of intergove...

• SVG registers CARICOM's disappointment with "unfulfilled" promises of rich countries

  Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines addressing the UN's 4th High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development UNITED NATIONS, NY, March 23, 2010: - Pointing out the "largely unfulfilled" promises of d...

• SVG Chides Working Group for "Inertia," Calls for Urgent Action of Economic and Financial Crisis

  UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, February 11, 2010: -- Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves today chided the Ad Hoc Working Group charged with following up on last year's Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis for its lack of urgency and undue deference...

• SVG Joins Call for "Composite Text" in Negotiations on Security Council Reform

  January 20, 2010, UNITED NATIONS (NEW YORK): – Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines today spoke out in favour of a composite text upon which to base negotiations on Security Council reform, and criticized the "creative ...

• SVG Establishes Formal Diplomatic Relations with The Kingdom of Cambodia

  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has formalised diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Cambodia. Ambassadors Dr. Sea Kosal of the Kingdom of Cambodia and Camillo Gonsalves of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines signed the documents establishing...

• Ambassador Gonsalves Criticises "Copenhagen Accord" on Climate Change

  Ambassador Camillo M. Gonsalves (File Photo) NEW YORK, NY, December 21, 2009: Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves, Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations, has called the Copenhagen Accord on climate change ...

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Attaché Mozart Carr Attends Training Programme in Japan

  [LEFT] Mozart Carr, Attaché with the Permanent Mission of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations; [RIGHT] Mr. Carr (far right) and other young diplomats from CARICOM posing with the Hon. Shuji Kira, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for ...

• Nedra Miguel Promoted to Minister Counselor/Deputy Permanent Representative

  FILE PHOTO Deputy Permanent Representative Nedra Miguel Nedra Miguel has been promoted to the post of Minister Counselor and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Mission of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the Unit...

• Ambassador Gonsalves attends Commonweath Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago

  [TOP LEFT] Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves greets Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of the United Kingdom; [TOP RIGHT] Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves shares a laugh with the Hon. Paula Gopee-Scoon, Foreign Minister of Tri...

• Ambassador Gonsalves Assails Global Imbalances at United Nations General Debate

  [LEFT] Part I on Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves' speech to the United Nations General Debate; [RIGHT] Part II of Ambassador Gonsalves' statement (The entire statement can also be viewed via RealPlayer by clicking HERE) NE...

• "Climate Change, Engagement and Global Reform:"

  Sir Louis Straker Leads Active SVG Delegation at United Nations General Assembly [To view/download this Press Release as an Adobe .pdf document, click HERE] UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK: - The opening of the 64th Session of the United Nations Gen...

• CARICOM Member States Hold Mini Summit with UN Secretary-General

  Seated at the table (from left), Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana, Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General, Vijay Nambiar, Chef De Cabinet to Mr. Ban, Edwin Carrington, CARICOM Secretary General, Patrick Manning, Prime Miniser of Trinidad and Tobago, Cami...