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DIVERSE AND COMPLEX ISSUES BEFORE COTED OFFICIALS
The Tenth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), opened today at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana with officials beginning their first round of discussions on a wide range of issues described as “diverse and complex”. In setting the tone of the two-day meeting, Belizean Chairman Dr. Marcelino Avila, who is also the Chief…
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COTED MEETS ON CRUCIAL CSME MATTERS
The Tenth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) will focus on crucial issues concerning the establishment of CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) when the week-long officials and ministerial deliberations begin at the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat on 8 January, 2001. The outcome of the Second Special Consultation between CARICOM and the Civil Society leadership in Barbados…
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COMPLETING CARICOM TREATY REVISION MAIN COTED FOCUS
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will focus its attention on a number of trade and economic issues, particularly those in relation to the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy in June. These Meetings will be held under the umbrella of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). The Meetings will take place in Barbados and the CARICOM Secretary-General,…
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EIGHTH MEETING OF COTED UNDER WAY
Delegates to the Eighth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) have begun deliberating a number of key “bread and butter” issues pertinent to the well-being of the people of the Region. They will map definitive action in response to a number of challenges facing it, at a two-day meeting which began today, 7 February, 2000 at…
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OFFICIALS FINE-TUNE AGENDA FOR EIGHTH MEETING OF COTED
A range of matters aimed at quickening the pace of, and strengthening the regional integration process in facing-up to the challenges in the new Century will be covered by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) officials when they meet in Georgetown on the 4-5 February, 2000 to prepare for the Eighth Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). The…
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STATEMENT ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 8 OCTOBER 1999, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
The Seventh Regular Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) was held at the Headquarters of the Community on 8 October 1999. The Meeting was very positive and reached a number of important conclusions. Held under the Chairmanship of Antigua and Barbuda, the COTED took the opportunity to assess the status of the effort to complete the…
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SPEECHES DELIVERED AT THE OPENING OF THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 8 OCTOBER 1999, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
ADDRESS BY SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, EDWIN W. CARRINGTON Mr. Chairman Other Distinguished Ministers Other Distinguished Delegates Secretariat Staff Members of the Media Good Morning. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Secretariat and the Seventh Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. I expect that this will be our last meeting for…
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Address by the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, at the Opening of the Seventh Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), 8 October 1999, Georgetown, Guyana
Mr Chairman Other Distinguished Ministers Other Distinguished Delegates Secretariat Staff Members of the Media Good Morning. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Secretariat and the Seventh Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. I expect that this will be our last meeting for this year 1999, indeed for this century, and it would be…
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SPEECH BY THE HONOURABLE HILROY HUMPHREYS, MINISTER OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, ON THE OCCASION OF THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 8 OCTOBER 1999, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Outgoing Chairman of the COTED Other distinguished colleagues, Excellencies, Delegates, Ladies and gentlemen, Please permit me to commence my brief remarks by expressing appreciation on behalf of all delegates to the Government of Guyana and the CARICOM Secretariat for the warm and splendid arrangements offered our delegations. It is always a pleasure to visit Georgetown, even if it is only…
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