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CARICOM ATTENDS DONOR CONFERENCE ON HAITI

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite and Assistant Secretary-General Foreign and Community Relations, Ambassador Colin Granderson will participate in the International Conference for the Economic and Social Development of Haiti in Madrid, Spain, from 29-30 November 2006.

The Conference brings together representatives of the Government of Haiti and the international donor community in an attempt to find ways to overcome the structural impediments to development in Haiti and to render the provision and management of aid more efficient. This Madrid conference is a follow up to the previous international conference for Haiti’s social and economic development held in Port-au-Prince in July of this year and which pledged more than US$750 million for the recovery plans put forward by the new constitutional Government of Haiti.

In keeping with the promise of commitment made by the Chairman of CARICOM, the Honourable Dr Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, during a visit of CARICOM Prime Ministers to Haiti last October, and drawing on the outcome of a week-long visit of a CARICOM technical mission to Haiti in mid-October, the CARICOM delegation will inform of the efforts to be undertaken by the Community to help Haiti meet its Community obligations under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and to contribute to Haiti’s renewal and recovery plans.

The conference, which has been organised by the Government of Spain, will look at donor co-ordination, as well as the political, security and macroeconomic situation in Haiti. Haiti’s constitutional architecture of governance will be completed on 3 December 2006 with the holding of elections for municipal and local government, as well as for unfilled Parliamentary seats.

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