00:00Prime Minister Kamala Pizarro-Bissetta told world leaders that the spirit of multilateralism is under strain, leaving the Caribbean vulnerable to crime and instability.
00:10The reality is, stop. No such peace exists today. For too many in our region, peace is not daily life, but an elusive promise, glimpsed and never grasped.
00:26In its absence, our citizens pay a terrible toll.
00:31The Prime Minister stressed that Trinidad and Tobago support legal migration, but has suffered the fallout from organized crime.
00:38She highlighted crime statistics at home and across the Caribbean, warning that transnational threats demand urgent global cooperation.
00:47President Trump's comments on the effects on countries of relentless narco and human trafficking, about organized crime, illegal immigration, are correct.
01:02This, then, is not phobia. It is not hyperbole. It is simply the stark, naked truth.
01:09She expressed gratitude for U.S. assistance, particularly its military presence in the Southern Caribbean, describing it as effective in curbing drug trafficking and violent crime.
01:22While there have been objections to the U.S. military action against drug cartels in the Southern Caribbean, some objections from some countries,
01:34I state today, Trinidad and Tobago reminds the international community that unless forceful and aggressive actions are taken,
01:43these evil drug cartels will continue their societal destruction.
01:47On Haiti, the Prime Minister called for the strong international backing of the U.S. and Panamanian efforts to suppress gangs and restore order.
01:56As we urge the international community to support us, to support the United States, to support Panama's proposed gang suppression force,
02:08to allow the deployment of 5,500 member force to subdue the gangs and restore order in Haiti.
02:16Turning to climate change, she said while urgent action is needed, developed countries must not impose unrealistic demands on small states.
02:26The developed countries, I say with the greatest respect again, can't or should not force feed a climate agenda on to developing countries and blackmail them into cooperation.
02:39We cannot proceed in that manner.
02:41What adds insult to injury and to injustice is that many of the same developed nations actively supporting the imposition of aggressive climate agenda,
02:53and an aggressive climate agenda actually achieve developed nations' status and prosperity through highly environmentally destructive and polluted industries in the many decades gone by.
03:07The Prime Minister closed her remarks by urging a renewed spirit of cooperation at the United Nations to ensure peace, security and fairness for vulnerable nations.
03:18Aksha Galston, TV6 News.
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