Jamaica’s Prime Minister joins UN Secretary-General to remember victims of slavery – Flashback

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (2nd right) participates in the unveiling of the “Ark of Return” – the Permanent Monument to honour the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade at the UN Visitors Plaza, New York on Wednesday, March 25. With the Prime Minister are (from left) Architect and Designer of the monument, Haitian American Rodney Leon; Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova; Permanent Observer of the African Union to the UN Tete Antonio; UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon; Permanent Representative of India to UN Asoke Kumar Mukerji; President of the United Nations General Assembly Sam Kutesa; and Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the UN Courtenay Rattray.

Jamaica’s Prime Minister joins UN Secretary-General to remember victims of slavery – Flashback

Remarks by Hon. E. P. Chet Greene, outgoing Chair of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations, at the Opening of the 26th Meeting of the COFCOR, Kingston, Jamaica 17 May 2023

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