Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, delivering his address at the 80th session of General Assembly

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September 30, 2025

Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves renewed his call at the United Nations for the inclusion of Taiwan in the organisation’s specialised agencies.

Delivering his address at the 80th session of General Assembly in New York on Friday, September, 27, 2025, the St Vincent and the Grenadines prime minister, also voiced alarm over the deteriorating situation in Haiti.

“St. Vincent and the Grenadines calls urgently for lasting peace across the Taiwan Straits and the participation of Taiwan in the specialized agencies of the United Nations,” he told delegates representing their various governments at the UN General Assembly.

He described Taiwan as a “functioning democracy”, and a “legitimate institutional expression of the Chinese civilisation,” and criticised the ongoing exclusion of its people from international bodies.

“It is a continuing absurdity that this country of 23 million people, a functioning democracy with a settled yearning for self-determination, a legitimate institutional expression of the Chinese civilisation with “first world” living standards, a land of peace and ingenuity, cannot be properly accommodated in the global bodies concerned with health, climate change, civil aviation, policing, and so forth.”

Dr. Gonsalves called for this prolonged matter to be resolved peacefully.

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