YouSaid · the spoken record

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

lines on the record
58
first
2013-09-24
most recent
2014-09-24
sittings or episodes
2
sources
un-general-debate

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

  1. “At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders pledged action on sustainable development. We recognized the shortcomings of the MDG process and the need to embrace a new partnership involving Governments, the private sector, civil society and multilateral banks, inter alia, to advance action on sustainable development. As leaders, we agreed to an outcome document to chart “The future we want” (resolution 66/288, annex), that is, a more sustainable future for the benefit of present and future generations. “The future we want” addresses many facets of what is required to stimulate sustainable development for all countries. Trinidad and Tobago was an active partner at that Conference.”

    2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)

  2. “In reflecting on the role of the United Nations in addressing the issue of development so that all peoples of the world may live in larger freedom, we welcome the outcome document adopted on 23 September for a renewed commitment to the MDG agenda and the intensification of the efforts towards its achievement by 2015. We also welcome the decision to launch the intergovernmental process that will lead to an agreement on the post-2015 development agenda, which should provide a new and more inclusive architecture to assist us in achieving our global sustainable development objectives. We therefore applaud the President for focusing on those efforts. We agree with him that it is an opportune moment to begin the discourse on setting the stage for the post-2015 development agenda. Some of the preparatory work has already been done.”

    2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)

  3. “It has become apparent that business-as-usual approaches will not suffice to address and eradicate poverty on a global scale; to ensure food, nutrition and energy security; to reverse environmental degradation and to deal with climate change. Current approaches will not advance the MDG agenda by 2015 or ensure sustainable development in the post-2015 context, as agreed at the June 2012 Rio de Janeiro United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Transformative change at the national, regional and international levels is what is required.”

    2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)

  4. “In contrast, many commentators have asserted that developed countries have not done enough to honour their commitments or to provide development assistance to their partners, consistent with the agreement reached at the Millennium Summit. Arguably, some developed countries have not done enough to reform their trade, tax and transparency policies. Moreover, insufficient attention has been paid to appropriate regulation of the global financial and commodity markets. What has happened is that those in turn have negatively impacted the ability of many developing countries to achieve the MDGs. Since the 2000 Summit, there has been some progress in the achievement of the internationally agreed goals including the MDGs, but there have also been many pitfalls.”

    2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)

  5. “For us in Trinidad and Tobago, we have made some strides in achieving the Goals and, indeed, in some cases, we have surpassed them. For example, with respect to the MDG related to education, not only have we achieved universal primary education, we have also achieved universal secondary education, and we are working towards achieving universal early childhood education. We are well aware that a number of countries are not on track to realize any of the targets set. By 2005, and again in 2010, it was evident that greater efforts were needed if developing countries as a whole were to meet their MDG targets by the deadline. However, despite numerous constraints in the difficult international economic and financial environment, developing countries have done much to finance their own development.”

    2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)

  6. “At that time, there was renewed faith in the United Nations as the vehicle to assist developing countries, especially the most vulnerable, in their efforts to help reduce poverty and hunger and to provide an enabling environment to assist States, working as partners, to develop their economies so that their peoples may live in conditions free of persistent poverty, inadequate health care and other developmental ills. At that time, it was felt that a new chapter was beginning for the United Nations. It was now being seen as proactive and not reactive. When we look back on the period between 2000 and the present, what is the reality? What has the international community witnessed since the commitments were made at the Millennium Summit in 2000? The evidence shows that progress towards achieving the MDGs has been uneven.”

    2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)

  7. “Trinidad and Tobago is confident that the President will discharge his mandate with distinction and in an impartial manner for the benefit of all States. In 2000, world leaders gathered at the General Assembly and launched the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were aimed at achieving specific targets on poverty alleviation, universal education, gender equality, child and maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, environmental sustainability, and partnership for development by 2015.”

    2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)

  8. “This evening, as the Chairperson of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I am very delighted and honoured to extend to President Ashe our congratulations on his assumption of the position of President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. His elevation to preside over this central organ of the United Nations is testimony to the contribution that CARICOM, as a grouping of small States, continues to make to the advancement of the global agenda for peace, security and development. Indeed, it is evidence of the principle of the sovereign equality of all States enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. Nowhere else is that principle more recognizable than in the General Assembly.”

    2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)