Statement by H.E. The Hon. Dr. Terrance M. Drew, Prime Minister of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, at the General Debate of the Eightieth Session of the United Nations General Assembly – 27th September, 2025

Madam President, for eighty years this Assembly has been a harbour for hope. From these benches ideas were born that banished hunger, cured children of disease and stitched torn treaties back together. We have reason to honour what has been achieved: rights extended, ladders out of poverty raised, medicines and measures moved across borders. Yet alongside those triumphs are truths we must not hide: partial pledges, procrastination and the persistent practice of putting profit before
people. Where progress has been made, too often it has been piecemeal; where promises have been given, too often they have been broken.

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