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For Immediate Release:
No.
17/2005
September 22, 2005
CARIFORUM AND EC TO CONSIDER NEXT PHASE OF NEGOTIATIONS
CHRIST CHURCH,
BARBADOS –
CARIFORUM
Trade Ministers and EC officials will meet in Saint Lucia at
the end of the month, to review progress in Phase II of
Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
negotiations, provide political instructions
on the future orientation of those negotiations and consider
issues germane to Phase III. In this regard, the Second
CARIFORUM-EC Ministerial Meeting will be convened September
30, preceded by the Fourth CARIFORUM-EC Meeting of Principal
Negotiators, September 28.
In response
to requests from the regional media and civil society, the
Director General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating
Machinery (RNM) and CARIFORUM Principal Negotiator for EPA
Negotiations, Ambassador Dr. Richard Bernal, wrote an
op ed
on the EPA process
(click
on link to access article).
For the purposes of EPA negotiations, fifteen
Caribbean countries constitute the regional
configuration called the Caribbean Forum of ACP States
(CARIFORUM); they are: Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas,
Barbados, Belize, Dominica, the Dominican Republic,
Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, St.
Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, and
Trinidad & Tobago.
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