An­tigua and Bar­bu­da will be host­ing the 55th reg­u­lar ses­sion of the Gen­er­al As­sem­bly of the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS).

The an­nounce­ment was made on Wednes­day by Sir Ronald Sanders, An­tigua and Bar­bu­da’s am­bas­sador to the Per­ma­nent Coun­cil of the OAS.  

In his state­ment, Saun­ders said, “The warmth of our Caribbean at­mos­phere will fos­ter har­mo­nious dis­cus­sions, as well as fruit­ful and pos­i­tive out­comes for our Hemi­sphere.”

“We hope that the warmth of our Caribbean at­mos­phere will fos­ter har­mo­nious dis­cus­sions, as well as fruit­ful and pos­i­tive out­comes for our Hemi­sphere,” he added. 

“We thank as­sis­tant sec­re­tary-gen­er­al Nestor Mendez and the two teams of of­fi­cials from the Gen­er­al Sec­re­tari­at who vis­it­ed An­tigua, dis­cov­er­ing the at­trac­tive­ness of our coun­try while sat­is­fy­ing them­selves that our Con­fer­ence fa­cil­i­ties and ho­tel ac­com­mo­da­tion are con­sis­tent with in­ter­na­tion­al stan­dards.”

The theme of the As­sem­bly will be “Build­ing Re­silient, In­clu­sive Economies in the Amer­i­c­as.”

Ac­cord­ing to Sir Ron, the theme res­onates with ur­gent re­gion­al con­cerns, em­pha­siz­ing the need for re­silience and in­clu­siv­i­ty as we ad­dress the chal­lenges con­fronting each mem­ber state – big and small – and all of them col­lec­tive­ly.

“By us­ing the term “build­ing” in the theme, we af­firm our com­mit­ment to sus­tained, on­go­ing ac­tion. And the in­clu­sive scope of the theme en­sures that all Mem­ber States can high­light their spe­cif­ic pri­or­i­ties with­in a broad­er col­lec­tive frame­work, un­der­scor­ing our shared ded­i­ca­tion to im­prov­ing the lives of all cit­i­zens in the Amer­i­c­as.”

“We look for­ward to wel­com­ing you in June 2025, con­fi­dent that our dis­cus­sions will fos­ter stronger ties and de­liv­er mean­ing­ful out­comes for our Hemi­sphere,” the Am­bas­sador stat­ed.

ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua, Mar 20, CMC

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