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Saint Kitts and Nevis
A combined view of Saint Kitts and Nevis's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
Compare with another country →Speech history
Saint Kitts and Nevis has maintained a consistently multilateral rhetorical orientation throughout its General Assembly speeches, with particular emphasis on small-state vulnerabilities—especially climate change and financial crises—that intensified notably after 2007. The country's emotional intensity and concrete policy detail have both increased substantially over the 13-year period, most dramatically from 2022 onward, reflecting a shift toward more passionate, vivid advocacy for climate and financial justice combined with increasingly specific domestic commitments. While early speeches prioritized multilateral cooperation and UN reform with modest self-accountability, recent years show a more balanced blend of both concrete national climate and sustainability initiatives and forceful calls for international structural change.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2009 | Very High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2010 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2011 | Very High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2013 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2014 | High | Low | High | Medium |
| 2015 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2018 | High | High | Medium | Low |
| 2021 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2022 | Very High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2023 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2024 | High | Very High | High | High |
| 2025 | High | Very High | Medium | High |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Saint Kitts and Nevis demonstrates exceptionally strong commitment to international law, having ratified 23 of 24 tracked treaties across all thematic areas. The country is particularly engaged on environmental protections, having ratified all 9 tracked climate and environmental conventions including the Paris Agreement and Kyoto Protocol, and maintains similarly comprehensive ratification of human rights instruments and arms control treaties. Only the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights remains without action, while full ratification of the Rome Statute and anti-corruption conventions reflects broad acceptance of international justice and governance frameworks.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyRatified
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsRatified
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryRatified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsNo action
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtRatified
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Saint Kitts and Nevis has voted affirmatively on the vast majority of General Assembly votes (2,095 yes votes across 3,966 total votes), demonstrating strong consensus alignment and institutional support. The country's three recorded dissents—opposing resolutions on oceans governance (2000), Israeli aggression and nuclear proliferation (1986), and the Nicaragua trade embargo (1985)—represent isolated departures that predate most of the speech data and suggest pragmatic rather than ideological independence in voting posture. High rates of abstention and non-voting indicate selective engagement rather than systematic opposition.
Notable dissents from consensus
Oceans and the law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2000-10-30 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace and security : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1986-10-29 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Trade embargo against Nicaragua : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1985-12-17 · voted N · 94% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.840 (Very High), ranked #58 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
2005–2023