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OECS Chairman The Hon. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, addresses the general debate of the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly

OECS Chairman The Hon. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, addresses the general debate of the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly

New York, 24 - 30 September 2019

Monday, September 30, 2019 — “A world of prosperity will not be sustained without global cooperation, global peace and global justice,” was the reverberating theme of an impassioned presentation by current Chairman of the OECS and Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Honourable Gaston Browne, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday, 27th September.

Prime Minister Browne's address to the assembly commenced with the plight of small developing states as a result of climate change pointing out that the very existence of small island states and our civilizations are imperiled. He called on developed nations to halt climate change by aiming to achieve a carbon neutral world.

Prime Minister Browne also addressed the decade old issue of Antigua and Barbuda and the United States Internet Gaming dispute at the WTO to which Antigua and Barbuda is awaiting the compliance of the United States to the WTO decision.

The country’s leader also addressed the Venezuela and Cuban political crises, the USA and China trade war, De-risking and the unease in the Middle East, calling for the world’s problems to be solved through dialogue and diplomacy.

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The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is an International Organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean. The OECS came into being on June 18th 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty agreeing to cooperate with each other while promoting unity and solidarity among its Members. The Treaty became known as the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis where it was signed. The OECS today, currently has eleven members, spread across the Eastern Caribbean comprising Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Martinique and Guadeloupe. 

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