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CARICOM Ministers and US Congressional Representatives meet in Miami
CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – The Director-General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM), Ambassador Dr. Richard Bernal, called for an enhancement of the economic partnership between CARICOM and the United States, “based on interdependence and mutuality of benefits”. He made these remarks today at a forum organized and hosted by the Inter-American Economic Council (IAEC), in Miami. In a presentation…
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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W CARRINGTON SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE CEREMONY FOR THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY ROLAND BULLEN, AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO GUYANA, AS PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE TO CARICOM, 2 APRIL 2004, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Your Excellency It is with great pleasure that I receive this letter from Secretary of State Colin Powell, designating you as Plenipotentiary Representative of the United States of America to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). As noted in Secretary Powell’s letter, you Ambassador Bullen, are a career member of the Foreign Service of the USA and assumed duties in Guyana in…
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REMARKS BY H. E. AMB. ROLAND BULLEN, AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO GUYANA, AT THE PRESENTATION OF HIS CREDENTIALS AS PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), 2 APRIL 2004, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Mr. Secretary-General, it is an honor for me to be here today to present my credentials as United States Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community. The United States enjoys good relations with the countries of the Caribbean Community, so it is appropriate that the U.S. Government have direct representation with the CARICOM Secretariat. The countries of CARICOM collectively constitute the…
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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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JOINT STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON THE THIRD BORDER INITIATIVE
The Governments of the United States of America and of the Caribbean nations of Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the Commonwealth of Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, the Republic of Haiti, Jamaica, the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Republic of Suriname,…
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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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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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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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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY DR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE TWENTY SECOND SPECIAL SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON THE REVIEW AND APPRAISAL OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES, 28 SEPTEMBER 1999, NEW YORK
Mr. President, Distinguished delegates, Mr President, we thank you for the opportunity to address this august chamber on a subject which spells life or death to the countries of our Region – the Caribbean. Held as it was in Barbados – a founding Member State of the Caribbean Community – the 1994 SIDS Conference and the resultant Barbados Plan of…
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