St. Kitts and Nevis handed on the baton of the chairmanship of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean (GRULAC) states to St. Vincent and Grenadines in January finish, winding down its month-long tenure.
Dr. Mutryce Williams, Everlasting Consultant of St. Kitts and Nevis to the United Nations, convened a remaining assembly signalling better partnership and cooperation among the many bloc’s member-states because it strives for better visibility, management and strategic impression on the world physique.
The diplomat, who chaired the assembly attended by worldwide representatives, thanked all for displaying a spirit of consensus.
St. Kitts and Nevis took the duty of the chair from St. Lucia within the first week of January 2025.
Dr. Williams leveraged her chairmanship to ask key strategic companions to temporary GRULAC about areas of joint motion and cooperation. Georgina Guillen-Grillo, Director Normal of International Coverage and Particular Presidential Envoy for the Ocean, Costa Rica, briefed the group forward of the UN Ocean Convention which shall be held in Good, France, in June this yr.
The occasion additionally noticed the participation of Anacláudia Marinheiro Centeno Rossbach, Government Director of the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).
St. Kitts and Nevis considers each organizations as potential companions in its mission to have strategic alliances at multilateral platforms because the island-nation eyes Sustainable Growth Objectives and a Sustainable Island State by 2040.
Dr. Williams stresses geo-strategic diplomacy
Throughout her chairmanship, the St. Kitts and Nevis’ diplomat burdened her authorities’s geo-strategic diplomacy by way of deeper engagement, broader session, fairness and transparency throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Her work was recommended by her counterparts and colleagues on the UN.
A specialist in nationwide safety and worldwide relations, Dr. Williams was excited when her nation assumed the highest function. She stated for the Everlasting Mission and St. Kitts and Nevis, the duty exemplified the nation’s ambition to make key contributions to the work within the UN at a time of a number of challenges, together with improvement finance, sustainable improvement and local weather motion.
Calling her expertise “insightful and instructive”, Dr. Williams cited the World Financial institution as opining that the Latin American and Caribbean area is anticipated to witness a gradual restoration within the present yr, backed by falling inflation and accommodative financial coverage.
“The area’s financial efficiency shall be influenced by a mixture of home and worldwide components, with commodity costs and world demand taking part in reasonable roles. St. Kitts and Nevis will due to this fact manoeuvre on the UN to safe geo-strategic benefit and alternatives for the Federation. Latin America and the Caribbean are our neighbourhood, and many people share the identical sea and area. This compels us to work extra carefully collectively,” the everlasting consultant stated.
GRULAC’s chairmanship gave St. Kitts and Nevis alternatives to have stronger ties with international locations in Latin America and the Caribbean, serving the imaginative and prescient of Prime Minister Terrance Drew and International Minister Denzil Douglas who search diplomatic and improvement prospects amid tensions.
About GRULAC
GRULAC is likely one of the 5 UN Regional Teams that includes 33 member-states from Central and South America and the Caribbean. The bloc’s members compose 17 per cent of all UN members.
The group is a non-binding consensus and dialogue one which tries to succeed in a consensus among the many member-states on numerous points affecting the area.
