CARICOM to boost relations with Cuba
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| Published on Saturday, June 30, 2007 |
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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): St Vincent and Grenadines' Prime Minister and current Chairman of CARICOM, Ralph Gonsalves, said this organization of Caribbean states will further encourage its relations with Cuba, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic in 2008 to the benefit of regional development.
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| St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves |
Gonsalves also announced that in 2008 CARICOM will continue supporting the creation of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) with a defined multilateral relation, trade agreements and important environmental accords.
The intensification of cooperation among Caribbean nations is precisely the bottom line in the agenda of the CARICOM Conference of twenty eight Heads of State and/or Government to take place on July 1-4, reports PL news agency.
During that meeting Barbadian Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, will take over as CARICOM Chairman. Arthur is currently in charge of giving a boost to the CSME and is actually responsible of the achievements of the Single Market already functioning in the area.
The summit will also include highly topical subjects such as maritime and air transport, regional security, agriculture, free movement of the people in the area, as well as the establishment of a Foundation for Caribbean Development and an Agency for Regional Development.
The opening ceremony will take place at the Parliament headquarters in Bridgetown and the lectures at the Barbados Hilton Hotel.
CARICOM is made up of Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Granada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. | | | | Reads : 227 | | | |
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