Speeches
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REMARKS BY MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR), GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, 21 MAY, 2001.
His Excellency Mr. Samuel A. Hinds, Acting President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Honourable Ministers of Foreign Affairs and their delegations Other Honourable Ministers Your Excellencies, Ambassadors, High Commissioners and other representatives of the Diplomatic Corps Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen of the Media Colleagues I have the honour and the pleasure to welcome you all to this the…
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OPENING REMARKS BY MR. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE ELEVENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 22 MAY 2001, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Hon. Ministers, Other Heads of Delegations, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Heads of Regional Institutions, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Media, Staff of the Secretariat I am pleased to extend a warm welcome to you this morning to this Opening Ceremony of the Eleventh Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development of the Caribbean Community. A…
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OPENING REMARKS BY MR. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL, CARICOM, AT THE ELEVENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 22 MAY 2001, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Hon. Ministers, Other Heads of Delegations, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Heads of Regional Institutions, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Media, Staff of the Secretariat I am pleased to extend a warm welcome to you this morning to this Opening Ceremony of the Eleventh Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development of the Caribbean Community. A…
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STATEMENT BY THE HON. S.R. INSANALLY, O.R., CCH, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, COOPERATIVE REPUBLIC OF GUYANA AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR), 21 MAY 2001, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Honourable Prime Minister, Honourable Ministers Excellencies, Mr. Secretary-General Ladies and Gentlemen, I am extremely pleased, on behalf of the Government and people of Guyana to extend to you a warm welcome to the opening of this Fourth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations. Mindful of the importance of our deliberations, we have done our utmost to ensure…
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STATEMENT BY THE HONOURABLE MERVYN ASSAM, MINISTER OF ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT, FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TOURISM, AT THE OPENING OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR), MAY 21, 2001, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Honourable Prime Minister of Guyana Colleague Ministers Secretary-General Members of the Diplomatic Corps Distinguished Delegates Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen It is indeed a pleasure to address this Fourth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) in my capacity as outgoing chairman. To COFCOR falls the responsibility of marshaling the diverse elements of the foreign…
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REMARKS BY MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR), 21 MAY, 2001, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
His Excellency Mr. Samuel A. Hinds, Acting President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Honourable Ministers of Foreign Affairs and their delegations Other Honourable Ministers Your Excellencies, Ambassadors, High Commissioners and other representatives of the Diplomatic Corps Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen of the Media Colleagues I have the honour and the pleasure to welcome you all to this the…
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ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SURINAME DRS. R.R. VENETIAAN IN THE EXTRAORDINARY PUBLIC SESSION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON THE OCCASION OF 135 YEARS OF PARLIAMENT OF SURINAME ON MAY 8, 2001
Mr. Speaker, Members of the National Assembly, Allow me to also extend a special greeting to your special guests in this extraordinary public session. Excellency Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados and Chairman of CARICOM, and CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington. Mr. Speaker, Pausing at the milestone of “One Hundred and Thirty-Five Years Parliament of Suriname” takes us far back into…
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DEMOCRACY IN CARICOM AND IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE : SPEECH DELIVERED BY DR. THE HON. KENNY D. ANTHONY, PRIME MINISTER, SAINT LUCIA, TO THE 1ST PLENARY SESSION OF THE THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 21 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Heads of Government, On behalf of the St. Lucia delegation, the delegations of the English-speaking Caribbean, and the delegations of the CARICOM sub-region, I wish to thank you for the warm and friendly welcome, and for the professional and efficient arrangements that the support staff of this summit have afforded to our delegations. The people of Canada…
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CIVIL SOCIETY : PREPARED TEXT FOR REMARKS BY HON. KEITH MITCHELL, PRIME MINISTER OF GRENADA AT THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 20-22 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
Your Excellency, Prime Minister Jean Cretien, Heads of States and Governments, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. Mr. Chairman I feel particularly privileged today to speak at this historic Summit that highlights the importance of the process of democracy and good governance. This is so, as Grenada has gone through the process of a revolutionary dictatorial system in the period 1979…
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REMARKS ON “A HEMISPHERIC COMMUNITY FOR A GLOBAL AGE” BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE OWEN ARTHUR, CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AND PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS, AT THE THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 20 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
I address you today in the name of the people of the Caribbean Community. In that spirit, I am pleased to recognise that the enterprise we are engaged in today in Quebec City began in the Caribbean almost two centuries ago. For it was in Jamaica in 1815 that the great apostle of freedom, Simon Bolivar, wrote in his famous…
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