Fifty Years at the Table: What Small Nations Need from the Next UN Secretary-General

VICTORIA, Seychelles, October 28 (IPS) – On 21 September 1976, less than three months after independence, Seychelles took its seat in the General Assembly of the United Nations. We became the 145th member of the Organisation. For a young nation of scattered islands in the Indian Ocean, with a small population and no army to speak of, it was far more than a ceremony. It was a promise that, in the family of nations, size would not decide whose voice was heard.

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