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Opening remarks by Mr. Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community at the Eighth Meeting of the Council For Finance And Planning (COFAP), 28 June 2003, Kingston, Jamaica
Mr. Chairman; Right Honourable Prime Minister of Barbados; Outgoing Chairman of the Council for Finance and Planning; Other Ministers of Finance and Planning; Central Bank Governors; Representatives of International, Hemispheric and Regional Organisations; Representatives of the Private Sector; Distinguished Delegates; Staff of the Caribbean Community Secretariat; Members of the Media; Ladies and Gentlemen; In my capacity as Secretary-General of the…
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BUSY SCHEDULE FOR CARICOM OFFICIALS : HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEET IN MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, 2-5 JULY 2003
In a year when the Caribbean Community is celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Community’s Heads of Government, as well as the Trade and Finance Ministers and senior officials will culminate a series of meetings in Jamaica in June and July with the Twenty Fourth Regular meeting of the Heads of Government in Montego, 2-5 July 2003. The Meetings in Jamaica…
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CARIBBEAN DESIGNS ROAD MAP TO CANCUN
MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA – A meeting to prepare CARIFORUM member states for the Fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference, September 10 to 14, in Cancun, Mexico, came to a close today. The meeting, entitled: Caribbean Region Pre- Cancun Meeting, was held June 16 to 19; organized by the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM), in collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat…
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MINISTERS DISCUSS FUTURE OF THE FTAA
MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA – United States Trade Representative Robert Zoellick convened an informal meeting of Trade Ministers, from selected Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) countries, in Maryland, June 12, 2003. Ministers from thirteen countries attended, drawn from all regions of the hemisphere. The main focus of discussion was on the goals of the FTAA and the core elements…
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RNM PREPARES REGION FOR CANCUN
MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA – CARIFORUM member states’ senior officials and experts, with responsibility for trade, and specialists from regional and international bodies are meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The four-day meeting will prepare the region for the Fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Cancun, Mexico, September 10 to 14. The Ministerial Conference marks the half-way mark for Doha…
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STATEMENT ON THE WAR IN IRAQ ISSUED BY THE SIXTEENTH MEETING OF THE BUREAU OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 5 APRIL 2003, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA
At its Fourteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting (in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 14-15 February 2003), the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community “considered the situation developing over Iraq and expressed their profound concern at the escalation of global tensions and their grave implications for the preservation of international peace and security.” Since then there has been an outbreak of…
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CRITICAL COLLEGE OF NEGOTIATORS MEETING IN JAMAICA
CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – A College of Negotiators Meeting will be convened in Kingston, Jamaica from March 31 to April 1, 2003. The session will finalize CARICOM’s preparation for the 13th Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Trade Negotiation Committee (TNC) Meeting in Puebla, Mexico from April 8 to 11. The College comprises Lead and Alternate Lead Negotiators representing…
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Prime Minister Patterson Lauds RNM Work
CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Hon. P.J. Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica, lauded the RNM for “the tremendous work being done” in relation to the Region’s participation in WTO, FTAA and ACP/EU negotiations. He was reporting to the Fourteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, held from the 14th to 15th of February in…
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