Caribbean Leaders Travel to Annual CARICOM Summit Meeting

01 de julio de 2015, 15:27Georgetown, Jul 1 (Prensa Latina) Presidents and high ranking officials from the Caribbean are travelling today to Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados, to attend the 36th annual Conference of Heads of State and Government, to be in session on Jul 2-4.

According to the official website of the Caricom, at least 16 presidents of the area will be present in the meeting, as well as representatives of the Asia-Africa-Caribbean summit and the Association of Caribbean States.

The list of 150 atendees includes the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela.

The Caribbean leaders will discuss energy, the establishment of the single market of the Caricom, the technological development of the area, the promotion of candidates to relevant international positions and the claim for compensation from Europe for slavery.

They will also review their relations with the Dominican Republic in the wake of its decision to repatriate thousands of Haitians born there and the territorial disputes Guyana-Venezuela and Belize-Guatemala.

Prime Minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart, will lchair the summit after assuming today the pro tempore presidency of Caricom, who was founded on July 4, 1973, to coordinate foreign policy and strengthen cooperation of their partners in the economic, agricultural, industrial, transport and telecommunications sectors.

Caricom groups Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Belize, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana and Suriname as full members.

Anguila, Bermudas, Caiman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands are associated countries.

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