Trade

  • February 8, 2004
    333

    Deadlock in FTAA Negotiations

    CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – The Seventeenth Meeting of the Free Trade Area of the America’s (FTAA) Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) ended inconclusively, the evening of February 6. The five-day meeting of Trade Vice-Ministers, from thirtyfour nations in the Americas, was held in Puebla, Mexico, February 2 to 6. “The meeting was unable to reach consensus on a framework for the…

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  • January 14, 2004
    369

    Interim Summit Pledges Support for Americas-wide

    CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Announced last year, leaders from thirty-four countries in the Americas were called to focus and deliberate on three principal topics, inter alia: combating poverty, promoting social development, and strengthening democratic governance, at a Special Summit in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, January 12 to 13, 2004. Caribbean leaders were amongst the invited Heads of…

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  • December 14, 2003
    369

    RNM Chief: CARICOM Participation at G-20 Meeting a Watershed

    CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – The G-20 – which was formed ahead of and rose to prominence at the ill-fated Fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference, this past September – met in Brasilia, Brazil, December 11 to 12. The meeting was convened ahead of a high-level WTO General Council meeting, set for December 15. The meeting took place at Ministerial…

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  • November 30, 2003
    386

    Ambassador Bernal Appointed Honorary Professor

    Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) Director-General, Ambassador Dr. Richard Bernal, was appointed Honorary Professor at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies of the University of the West Indies (UWI), October 2003. The appointment comes in recognition of Ambassador Bernal’s contribution to the work and progress of the institution over the years. The distinction Ambassador Bernal has…

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  • November 27, 2003
    409

    CARICOM TRADE MINISTERS AND WTO HEAD TO MEET IN GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

    Caribbean Trade Ministers will meet with the Mexican Foreign Minister and the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, (WTO), Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi in Georgetown, Guyana on Friday 28 November, 2003. H.E Ernesto Derbez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico was the Chairman of the Fifth Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference, which was held in Cancun in early September.…

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  • November 24, 2003
    365

    SECRETARY-GENERAL OFF TO INDIA, CHOGM

    CARICOM Secretary-General Mr. Edwin Carrington is closing off a busy year with a heavy schedule of engagements, which began last weekend. On Sunday, Mr. Carrington left the Region with the Chairman of the Community Council of Ministers, the Hon. K. D. Knights, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, on a six-day visit to India in response to…

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  • November 20, 2003
    369

    Accord ‘Endorsed’ at Miami Trade Talks

    MIAMI, UNITED STATES – Trade Ministers, from thirty-four countries, gathered at the Eighth Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Ministerial Meeting, in Miami, endorsed a key Ministerial Declaration, November 20. The Ministerial, set to last two days, concluded a day early. The summit followed a meeting of Vice-Ministers, November 15 to 18. The Ministerial Meeting produced a ‘compromise’ Ministerial…

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  • November 17, 2003
    327

    RNM Chief: FTAA Talks ‘Amicable’

    MIAMI, UNITED STATES – “Deliberations, thus far, have been amicable and constructive”. Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) Director-General, Ambassador Richard Bernal, made these remarks, November 17, two days into the Sixteenth meeting of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC), convened in Miami, United States. The four-day TNC, that got underway November 15, is striving…

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  • November 17, 2003
    333

    RNM Chief: FTAA Talks ‘Amicable’

    MIAMI, UNITED STATES – “Deliberations, thus far, have been amicable and constructive”. Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) Director-General, Ambassador Richard Bernal, made these remarks, November 17, two days into the Sixteenth meeting of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC), convened in Miami, United States. The four-day TNC, that got underway November 15, is striving…

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  • October 23, 2003
    389

    RNM-AGCI Trade Seminar Lauded

    CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – A ‘CARICOM Regional Training Seminar’, entitled: “International Negotiations, Free Trade Agreements and its Impact in Export Promotion: The Chilean Experience”, came to a close today. Convened in Montego Bay, Jamaica, October 20 to 23, it was coordinated by the International Cooperation Agency of Chile (AGCI), in collaboration with the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM). The objective…

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