Turkey
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Secretary-General’s Remarks at Accreditation Ceremony for new Ambassador of Turkey to CARICOM, 18 November
Your Excellency Bengü Yiğitgüden, Plenipotentiary Representative (Designate) of the Republic of Turkey to CARICOM. Ambassador, it is with distinct pleasure that I accept your Credentials accrediting you as the Plenipotentiary Representative of Turkey to the Caribbean Community. Your accreditation is warmly welcomed as yet another indication of Turkey’s continuing commitment to ensuring that the potential of our relationship is fully…
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Caribbean can only ‘build back better’ with international support and urgent climate action, UN, CARICOM Chiefs and Heads of Government
Over US$2 billion pledged, half of which in loans and debt relief, to support affected women and men for long-term recovery in hurricane-affected Caribbean during CARICOM-UN Conference New York, 21 November 2017 – In view of the urgent needs of Caribbean islands affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the “CARICOM-UN High-level Pledging Conference: Building a more Climate-Resilient Community ” mobilised…
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CARICOM and Turkey to strenghten relations: Issues Declaration on a new era of cooperation and consultation
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Turkey-CARICOM Consultation and Cooperation Mechanism Meeting of Foreign Ministers re-committed to strengthen existing fields of cooperation and to explore new areas to deepen interaction, according to the outcome document issued on its conclusion. The Meeting held last July 18, 2014 in Turkey at the invitation of that country’s Government, and attended by Foreign…
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Lessons from Turkey
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – What began on May 28 as a protest against the planned redevelopment of a park in Istanbul, to accommodate the construction of a replica Ottoman-era barracks and a mosque, has snowballed into a national political crisis for Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party (known by its Turkish acronym, AKP). But,…
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