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ST. VINCENT and the GRENADINES

Takes Over UN Security Council Presidency – Focus On Peace-building and Sustaining Peace

UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Caribbean nation St. Vincent and the Grenadines officially took over the rotating Presidency of the UN Security Council Monday. The tiny island nation of some 100,000 folk has the distinction of being the smallest country ever to garner a seat on the powerful UN Security Council.

Tiny St. Vincent and the Grenadines has a big profile now in the global arena. The Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ambassador Inga Rhonda King will preside as President at the Security Council for the month of November. The presidency of the council is held by each of the members for one month, following the English alphabetical order of the member states’ Names. St. Vincent and the Grenadines follows Russia which held the presidency the month of October.

The UN Security Council comprises 15 member states, including five permanent members – the United Kingdom, China, Russia, the United States and France. Much of the Council’s work is likely to remain remote due to COVID-19 restrictions, although an effort is underway to hold several meetings on UN premises.

The Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, H.E. Mr. Ralph Gonsalves, along with the Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ambassador Inga Rhonda King, briefed reporters Monday on the Council’s programme of work for November.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines has chosen to hold a high-level open debate on “contemporary drivers of conflict and insecurity”, under the Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace agenda. The Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, will chair the meeting.

The expected briefers are Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed; Chief Executive Officer of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development Ibrahim Mayaki; Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies Sir Hilary Beckle.

“Our term on the UN Security Council signifies a new phase in our political journey as an independent nation. Together we will make a difference for the better. And our common humanity binds us all as a people and a nation to lend our voices to the most pressing challenges of international peace and security. As a small state, without the military and economic might to insulate us from the rivers of a tumultuous international system, our safety and security depends on a steadfast adherence to a firm advocacy and adherence to the principles to international law.

As we coordinate the council’s activity, we will address a number of important issues affecting our Caribbean region, in our Hemisphere, and indeed the world.”
-Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, H.E. Mr. Ralph Gonsalves

Credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times / Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is all smiles as he speaks to the press outside the General Assembly Hall after nation’s election to UN Security Council June 7, 2019 world headquarters New York.
ST VINCENT and Grenadines to Address Issues in HAITI at UN Security Council

“Haiti is also a priority. We intend accordingly to highlight some the issues affecting our brothers and sisters in Haiti including efforts to build capacities in the Haitian National Police, and to advance women’s participation in the political and peace processes,” – PM Ralph Gonsalves.

Tiny Island Nation ST VINCENT Has Big Plans On UN Security Council

“St. Vincent Grenadines views this as a historic occasion. We are the smallest country ever to be elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council. We stand steadfast on the fundamental principles of this organization which is founded in the aftermath of the Second World War to bring about peace and security.

We are committed to the principle of the equality of states, interference and non intervention in the internal affairs of other countries. Defense of sovereignty and independence and for overall sustainable development.”
-Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

According to a UN Security Council Report, St Vincent and the Grenadines is likely to take a special interest in the situation in Venezuela.

There will be the biannual briefing, followed by consultations, on the Joint Force of the Group of Five for the Sahel (FC-G5S), which Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger (G5 Sahel) established in 2017 to combat terrorist and criminal groups in the region. Several meetings on Somalia are expected.

The Council is scheduled to adopt a resolution renewing several elements of the Somalia sanctions regime that will expire on 15 November. Additionally, the Council is expected to hold a meeting on the implementation of the mandates of UNSOM and AMISOM. Regarding Libya, there will be a briefing on the ICC by the Prosecutor and a briefing and consultations on UNSMIL.

The regular meetings on Syria, Yemen and the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question, are also on the November programme of work. On Syria, there will be an open and closed meeting on the political and humanitarian situation and a closed meeting on the use of chemical weapons. The meetings on developments in Yemen and on the situation in the Middle East are planned in both open and closed format. Other meetings on the Middle East include: Iraq, with briefings and consultations on UNAMI and UNITAD

Her Excellency Inga Rhonda King was elected seventy-fourth President of the Economic and Social Council on 26 July 2018. Ambassador King is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations in New York.

Ms. King, who comes to diplomacy from the private sector, has lived and worked in several Caribbean countries, the United States of America, and China. She is a small business owner, business strategist, the author of three books, and a management accountant with more than two decades of professional experience.

She also holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and chemistry, is the immediate past chair of the Investment Promotions Agency of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Invest SVG), and a former Honorary Consul for Portugal to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

https://diplomatictimes.net/2020/11/02/ ... ing-peace/

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St Vincent - Who We Are

Defining epochs in Our History – Colonial Conquest and Settlement, native genocide and slavery, indentureship and empire, anti-colonial struggle and Independence, climate and neoliberalism

Our quest to build a modern, independent, democratic, post-colonial economy and society that is at once national, regional, and global, has been shaped by our small size, our islandness, our geographic location, our history, our demography, and the contemporary challenges arising from climate change and neoliberalism.

European contact with St. Vincent and the Grenadines first occurred in the 16th century. In the mid-17th century, the indigenous Kallinago people welcomed enslaved Africans from Nigeria, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, who were shipwrecked off St. Vincent on route to Barbados. The two peoples slowly became one: the Garifuna. As time passed, and as word spread, runaway enslaved Africans from other islands made the perilous journey to St. Vincent to join the free Garifuna community.

In 1763, Britain assumed suzerainty of St. Vincent and the Grenadines through the Treaty of Paris under which there was a general carve-up of territories in the Eastern Caribbean between the British and the French. Thereafter, for over 200 years continuously, save and except for a few years of French occupation (1779 – 1783), St. Vincent and the Grenadines remained under British colonial rule until internal self-government in 1969 and constitutional independence in 1979.

Swiftly in 1764, the British established organised African slavery and a sugar economy; over 55,000 enslaved Africans disembarked in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. In 1764, too, the colonialists declared that all the land belonged to the British Crown. There then ensued a prolonged guerilla war for over 30 years, interspersed by tenuous treaties or agreements,

in which the Kallinago and Garifuna people fought against the British for their lands and the right of self-determination. In 1795, the British ambushed and killed the Garifuna leader, Paramount Chief Joseph Chatoyer; in the process the Garifuna resistance was crushed.

The British then carried out a campaign of genocide against the Garifuna people. Following this, over 5,000 Garifuna sons and daughters were shipped to an inhospitable rocky island off the coast of St. Vincent — approximately one-half of them died within six months; the rest were exiled to Roatan Island in the Bay of Honduras.

From this sturdy and heroic people, descendants are found in Garifuna communities in Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and a few cities in the United States of America. These descendants see St. Vincent and the Grenadines, their original Yuremein, as their spiritual homeland, many of whom pay organised visits annually to their fellow-Garifuna in their motherland.

In 2001, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) declared the Garifuna language, dance and music to be “Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”.

Resistance to slavery hastened its demise in 1838. The organised enslavement of Africans in St. Vincent and the Grenadines existed for some 75 years, a much shorter period than in most other countries of the “New World”. Between 1845 and 1881, indentured labourers were recruited to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, first from Madeira, and then from India, to work on the plantations in the post-slavery period, alongside the former slaves and their descendants.

From the early 20th century, the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines ramped up their struggle against colonialism and for self-determination. Through the fever of history, our people have built a harmonious society with a core of tried and tested values of our Caribbean civilisation. Indeed, our nation’s component of this civilisation constitutes a veritable symphony of wholeness, with occasional dissonance:

We are the songs of the indigenous people (Kallinago and Gariguna); we are the rhythm of Africa; we are the melody of Europe; we are the chords of Asia; and we are the home-grown lyrics of the Caribbean.

Today, St. Vincent and the Grenadines possesses strengths and possibilities, weaknesses and limitations. We do not drink at the fountain of learned helplessness. Through a combination of faith and reason, hard and smart work, a progressive embrace of multilateralism and internationalist solidarity, and the joinder of justice, peace, and democracy, we have been building a society worthy of our illustrious forebears.

We are friends of all and enemies of none. We are a middle-income, small island developing state ready to play an even greater role in the upliftment of our nation, region, our hemisphere, and all humanity.

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Geography Statistics of St Vincent and the Grenadines



Coastline: 52 miles

Land Area: (land) 150 sq miles

Land Area: (all countries)

Land Divisions: St. Vincent and the Grenadines are divided into six parishes. They are Charlotte, Grenadines, Saint Andrew, Saint David, Saint George, and Saint Patrick

Horizontal Width: 11.7 km (7.3 miles) from Biabou west to Barrouallie

Vertical Length: 20.2 km (12.6 miles) from Kingstown north to FancyNote:

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Our nation is 41 years of age

On October 27th 1979, some 41 years ago, Vincentians threw off the cloak of colonialism, and assumed total responsibility for their own future, and a commitment to work together for the development of this country called St. Vincent and the Grenadines

By and large Vincentians have kept this vow, endearing to the positive idea that our country must be at the forefront of all development, and that our children must get the best there is on offer. Basically, Vincentians have supported the mantra that "we are not better than anyone, and no one is better than us”.

It is important that we correctly apply our historical lessons

First, it is wrong to ignore our history, it is not bunk; it has shaped us

Secondly, we must not sanitise or white-wash it

(That approach is likely to deny us our very essence adding to our burdens)

Thirdly, we must not live in history and stylise our sufferings in a permanent victimhood. That approach will hold us back by impossibly looking forward to a past while other nations are moving to the future.

Instead, we must learn from our history. Let it be a noise in our blood, and echo in our bones, and embrace it to uplift ourselves through sense and sensibility

Most of all, we must deepen our understanding of our past so as to avoid the desecration of the future. we are not better than anybody, but nobody is better than us!

We are for peace, not war

Proud Vincentians

As Vincentians, we have much to be proud of, when we look back at our forty year history as a nation, and in particular, since the year 2001. It is clear that our country has developed by leaps and bounds.

Our Education Revolution has provided our young citizens in particular, with the tools to allow them to soar like eagles with their wings unclipped, and they have been soaring to great heights.

In our 41st year of independence, we will be on the world stage, as we take our seat as a non permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations, the smallest nation in the world, to achieve this feat. Some 185 nations supported our quest, and indication of our international profile, and the status in which we are held.

Currently we are in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, and like all other international countries, our country is being affected. Despite all this, no one has died from the pandemic, and our health professionals have responded magnificently to the situation.

The health situation is not the only sector that has been affected by the pandemic. A number of businesses have been affected and workers have lost their jobs because of this. The ULP administration has created a number of stimulus packages to provide financial relief to those Vincentians who were affected.

Conclusion

As we mark our 41st year of independence, we recognize that there are many challenges facing our country. Yet, these challenges and threats do not paralyze us into inaction and learned helplessness or prompt us to adopt unsustainable approaches to development or any faddish mirages of the day.

With our traditional friends, and globally:
We, in partnership shall overcome our challenges;
We shall remain focused and creative;
We shall further fortify our hard and smart work;
We shall be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers;
We shall uplift further our nation;
We shall not be idle or faint-hearted, or weary in our efforts to exalt every valley;
We shall make low every mountain of obstacles
We shall turn the crooked straight
We shall smooth that which is rough

St Vincent - Hairoun - Land of the Blessed

https://thevincentian.com/ulp-view-our- ... 08-107.htm

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Kurds should be ashamed

100,000 Vincentians have achieved far more than the MILLIONS of LAZY Kurds have

Read the other posts about St Vincent and feel SHAME

When Southern Kurdistan held the referendum and almost everyone wanted independence a minority of idiots prevented them from declaring that independence

100,000 Vincentians are INDEPENDENT

Kurds are USELESS

I get fed up watching Kurds doing nothing

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St Vincent Celebrates Independence

Saint Vincent & The Grenadines celebrates 42 years of Independence

Today, Wednesday 27 October marks 42 years of independence for the nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines, a former British colony, which became the last of the Caribbean’s Windward Islands to gain independence.

Comprising 32 islands found between Grenada and St. Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines is home to lush, mountainous rainforests and the famous La Soufriere, its 4,000ft tall active volcano which erupted on Friday 9 April 2021.

If you would like to support Saint Vincent, please find more information on Youroumei Cultural Artistic Showcase, a virtual event being held on Sunday 7 November 2021.

Soca News wishes all Vincentians a Happy Independence.

https://socanews.com/news/saint-vincent ... dependence

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Quote from last year:

With our traditional friends, and globally:

We shall overcome our challenges;
We shall remain focused and creative;
We shall further fortify our hard and smart work;
We shall be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers;
We shall uplift further our nation;
We shall not be idle or faint-hearted, or weary;
We shall increase efforts to exalt every valley;
We shall make low every mountain of obstacles;
We shall turn the crooked straight;
We shall smooth that which is rough