Food Security

STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE TENTH INTER-SESSIONAL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITYON THE UNITED STATES’ UNILATERAL IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS AGAINST THE EUROPEAN UNION BANANA IMPORT MARKETING REGIME

We, the Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community, meeting in Paramaribo, Suriname, deplore the precipitate unilateral action of the United States to impose sanctions against the European Union (EU) over its Banana Import Regime. This unauthorised and illegal action undermines the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and threatens the economic survival and social and political stability of several…