Last Updated on October 7, 2022, 3:28 AM AST by Anthony Morris
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr Denzil Douglas, travelled to Peru to attend the 52nd OAS.
The Former Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis addressed the 52nd Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Thursday, October 6, 2022. The General assembly is being held under the theme, Together against Inequality and Discrimination.
During his address, Minister Douglas talked about the number of reforms and steps that the government of his nation, St Kitts and Nevis, has been taking to tackle and address the issues of inequality and discrimination. He emphasized that the government is relatively new and has spent a short period in office.
In this view, he said that the theme of the 52nd session of the OAS general assembly was most fitting.
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, his delegation finds the theme “most relevant.” In his view, the world is confronting “longstanding realities of inequality and discrimination.”
Dr Douglas added that the new government of St Kitts and Nevis, headed by Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew, has started making efforts to reduce inequality and discrimination in many areas of our society.
He informed his OAS colleagues that, for the first time in the nation’s history, St Kitts and Nevis has 30% representation of women members in the Prime Minister’s Cabinet.
The representation would ensure that the views and opinions of the sisters, mothers, wives, and daughters are more passionately registered at the decision-making table. It would further enhance gender equality at the highest level of public office.”
He also presented other examples of the government’s will towards creating a more inclusive society.
The government appointed St Kitts and Nevis’ first female Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Nerys Chiverton and the first female Governor General’s Deputy, Marcella A. Liburd.
Additionally, the Minister of foreign affairs, Dr Douglas, informed his fellow attendees that the new government in St Kitts and Nevis firmly believes that education is one of society’s greatest equalizers. In keeping with this view, the government has made several decisions and put measures in place to provide improved access to education to the nation’s people.
In a manner of explanation, Dr Douglas repeated the government’s decision to provide free of cost tertiary education to the residents and citizens of the nation. He said that the government aims to provide access to higher education to all nationals regardless of their socio-economic status.
He urged the OAS to assist his nation in their quest to advance multilingualism, to open doors to more significant opportunities in tourism, trade, diplomacy, employment, and academic pursuits.
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