Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister has urged developing nations to take a more forceful role in global affairs, calling on the Global South to “exercise big voices and strong positions.”
Addressing the Medays 2025 forum in Morocco, Gaston Browne said poorer states continue to shoulder the worst effects of conflict, inequality and climate change, and should therefore lead efforts to reform global systems.
“The stakes are too high for silence,” he said, warning against a world “defined by might over right.”
He said recent initiatives – from climate litigation to regional integration – show that developing countries can drive change, but argued that they must now press harder for fairer trade, climate justice and more inclusive governance.
“We owe it to future generations,” he said. “Balance must be not only geopolitical, but a moral and human imperative.”
