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Camillo Gonsalves

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2021-08-09
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2021-08-09
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  1. “Further development support is required to help strengthen the institutional arrangements that govern our marine resources. The plethora of security challenges that envelop maritime nations, particularly small island developing States, demand a firm recommitment by the international community to enhance our multilateral cooperation. This is the crucial prerequisite in the pursuit of peace, security and development, for all nations and peoples – especially to those of us who so heavily depend on the oceans for life and living in this precarious period of climate change.”

    2021-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/722 (2021) · source

  2. “Through multilateral initiatives such as the Regional Security System, the Implementation Agency for Crime and Security and the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative commission, my country has worked to advance the maintenance of peace and security at our shorelines and beyond and throughout the “zone of peace” that is circumnavigated by the Caribbean seas. Our delegation emphasizes the importance of information-sharing to help address increasingly sophisticated networks of transnational organized crime which undermine maritime security and threaten international peace. In this regard, we hail the invaluable role of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in promo ting intergovernmental coordination and providing capacity-building assistance through the Global Maritime Crime Programme.”

    2021-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/722 (2021) · source

  3. “We also commend Kenya for its leadership of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, and the Indian Ocean Commission for its support to this important Group. These multilateral mechanisms are crucial to the international efforts to strengthen maritime security. We in CARICOM have made tremendous strides to enhance maritime security by improving our surveillance and intelligence-gathering capacities, modernizing the law enforcement and criminal justice sectors and upgrading and harmonizing regulations for travel and trade.”

    2021-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/722 (2021) · source

  4. “Recent escalations in the Gulf of Oman bring into even closer focus the need for all States to work together within the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to ensure freedom of navigation and innocent passage. Certainly, each country is duty-bound to safeguard its coastal resources, defend its maritime borders and protect its citizens and interests from seaborne threats. However, these actions must always comply with international law and fully respect the sacrosanct principles of State sovereignty and territorial integrity. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines commends the recently signed memorandum of understanding between the African Union and the Gulf of Guinea Comm ission to reinforce joint efforts to address maritime safety.”

    2021-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/722 (2021) · source

  5. “These challenges can only be solved through comprehensive multilateral approaches that systematically address the peace and security, developmental and humanitarian concerns of all States. Only then would a prosperous future for all nations – including our small island developing States who rely so much on our oceans – be assured. The destructive forces of climate change, which pose existential risks to low - lying coastal countries – such as those interspersed across our Caribbean Community (CARICOM) – further accentuates these challenges. The international community’s efforts to enhance maritime security will prove inadequate until meaningful action is taken to arrest global warming, which jeopardizes the social fabric of States everywhere and turns our marine environment into yet another threat to security on land.”

    2021-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/722 (2021) · source

  6. “Indeed, in our subregion, over 120 per cent of our territorial space is marine space. More than 3 billion people globally depend on the oceans for their livelihoods. It is imperative that the social, economic, environmental and security considerations pertaining to our seascapes are fully taken into account. A range of interrelated maritime security risks threaten life, living and production in both maritime and landlocked States. And we have heard them in full throughout this discussion, including: Piracy and armed robbery; The illegal trade of arms, ammunition, narcotics and other contraband; Irregular migration and human trafficking; Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing; Deliberate damage to marine ecosystems.”

    2021-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/722 (2021) · source

  7. “At the outset, permit me to commend the Republic of India for convening today’s open debate, and I thank the briefers for their insightful remarks. I would also more personally like to thank his excellency Prime Minister Modi for his public solidarity and support with our Prime Minister, the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who was recently victim of – as he termed it, and correctly – a ghastly attack. I would like to inform Prime Minister Modi we are warmed by his solidarity and that our Prime Minster is well on the way on returning to his duties. As a small island developing State whose material existence and continued prosperity is inextricably linked with the oceanic resources that define and circumscribe our archipelago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines attaches great significance to this discussion.”

    2021-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/722 (2021) · source