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WELCOME REMARKS BY DR. THE HONOURABLE HENRY B. JEFFREY, MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, GUYANA, AT THE TWENTY-SIXTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 24 NOVEMBER 2008, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Mr. Chairman Colleague Ministers and Heads of Delegations Secretary-General and Staff Distinguished Delegates Members of the media Ladies and Gentlemen I welcome you to this Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). To those of you who have been in Guyana since last week, I hope you had a good weekend and will also take advantage…
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REMARKS BY THE HONOURABLE MAXINE MC CLEAN, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN TRADE, BARBADOS, AND CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED) ON THE OCCASION OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH MEETING OF THE COTED, 24 NOVEMBER 2008, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Fellow Ministers of Government Their Excellencies Ambassadors to the Caribbean Community Distinguished Delegates Students Representatives of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. This is my first COTED meeting and it is my distinct honour to have been asked to chair the sessions…
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WELCOME REMARKS BY DR. THE HONOURABLE HENRY B. JEFFREY, MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, GUYANA, AT THE TWENTY-SIXTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 24 NOVEMBER 2008, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Mr. Chairman Colleague Ministers and Heads of Delegations Secretary-General and Staff Distinguished Delegates Members of the media Ladies and Gentlemen I welcome you to this Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). To those of you who have been in Guyana since last week, I hope you had a good weekend and will also take advantage…
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COTED ACKNOWLEDGES CSME CRITICAL TO CONFRONTING GLOBAL CHALLENGES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The need for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to forge ahead with the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in order to adequately and collectively respond to the current global financial and economic crisis was underscored yesterday at the official opening of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), Monday,…
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COTED LOOKS AT EPA IMPLEMENTATION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Integration (COTED) will be held 24-25 November 2008 at Le Meridien Pegasus in Georgetown, Guyana. The implementation of the recently signed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the Caribbean Forum of African Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) and the European Commission (EC), will be among…
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SPECIAL COTED TO DISCUSS TOURISM, TRANSPORTATION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Special Meeting of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) will be held in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 18 September 2008, to discuss Tourism and Transportation/Civil Aviation. The Twenty-Eighth Special COTED will be convened to fulfill a mandate given by the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community…
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Tariff suspensions approved by COTED
(CARICOM Secretariat Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) THE Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) last week approved the suspension of the Common External Tariff (CET) on three categories of items in an effort to provide relief from the rising costs of commodities region-wide. At its Twenty-fourth Special Meeting held 7-8 March in Nassau, the Bahamas,…
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ADDRESS BY DR. THE HON. CHRISTOPHER TUFTON, M.P., MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, JAMAICA, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 21 MAY 2008, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
[Salutations] It is customary on occasions like these for us to remind ourselves of the times in which we are gathered. This 27th Special Meeting of COTED is being opened here this morning against the background of a global food crisis, precipitated by spiralling commodity prices worldwide, and characterized by Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to…
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REMARKS BY THE HON. ROBERT M. PERSAUD, MBA MP, MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, GUYANA, AT THE TWENTY-SEVENTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 21 MAY 2008, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
A warm welcome to my colleague Ministers of Agriculture and officials here for the 27th Special Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. I hope that your stay in Guyana will be enjoyable, but more importantly that our deliberations will be successful. When this meeting was planned, I insisted on an agenda with a reduced number of…
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REMARKS BY THE HON. ROBERT M. PERSAUD, MBA MP, MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, GUYANA, AT THE TWENTY-SEVENTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 21 MAY 2008, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
A warm welcome to my colleague Ministers of Agriculture and officials here for the 27th Special Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. I hope that your stay in Guyana will be enjoyable, but more importantly that our deliberations will be successful. When this meeting was planned, I insisted on an agenda with a reduced number of…
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