Terrance Drew, remembered Haiti as a beacon of resilience and love, and supported the work of the National Transitional Council.

The Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Terrance Drew, in the context of the 79th session of the United Nations, delivered his speech on behalf of the island states suffering from rising sea levels.

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He also referred to the need for increased diplomatic virtues and stated that we need a humanity anchored in decency, equity and inclusion. We must be above not resign ourselves to the idea that the children of Haiti, Congo, Sudan and Palestine, deserve less rights than the freedoms that we enjoy, we are all a people, a world, we cannot have peace without justice and there can be no justice without just and solid equality».

Similarly, the prime minister reiterated the call of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza to end the suffering.

He also recalled Haiti as a beacon of resilience and love, and supported the work of the National Transitional Council in trying to create an environment conducive to a political solution that involves all.

Likewise, it sent a message to the Cuban people and the embargo that “it is not fair and remains a stain on our collective conscience”.

In this regard, he called for the end of the unjust blockade against Cuba and advocated its removal from the State Department’s list, which includes nations that allegedly sponsor terrorism.

“Cuba has been a friend of the Caribbean for a long time, its doctors and teachers are an example of genuine philanthropy,” said Terrance Drew.

«Today we are stumbling on the edge of a precipice, to return to a world in which peace is in check, where weapons are romanticized and an exaltation of violence is carried out in search of absolute power», said the premier.

Terrance Drew also said that «in the Caribbean our reality of rising sea levels that kills our hopes, waves of unbearable heat that burns and makes our dreams burn, we pray for rains and receive floods that destroy our homes».

In this sense, he argued that the weapons that come to our communities causing children to die and mothers to lose them, we need to fight for action and we have to look as life without self-complacency when we see how the global south is starving, while food is wasted in the rest of the world».

He also stated that «it is because we are besieged by natural anthropogenic storms, corporate greed, colonial arrogance and unbridled consumerism, that the social contract we have with each other has been shattered».

«We no longer live in peace with nature, the deception by which we survive is that security and sustainability are independent undertakings, but in reality they are interrelated» said the prime minister.De igual forma, recalcó que la crisis climática priva a las generaciones futuras de su derecho de nacimiento, la seguridad es mucho más que la falta de un conflicto, es la presencia de dignidad, justicia y esperanza.

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