GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 13 – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers will meet in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday to review the region’s strategic bilateral relationships, the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat has announced.
It said that the two day meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) will be followed by the Community Council meeting on Thursday.
The Secretariat said that the foreign ministers will review the Community’s strategic bilateral relationships including those with countries in North and Latin America, Europe, Asia and the wider Caribbean and will also hold discussions with their counterparts from New Zealand and the Dominican Republic.
The Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Special Envoy of the Government of Japan will also attend the meeting.
The Secretariat said that among the agenda items for the meetings include international development cooperation, preparing a co-ordinated approach to 2013 and 2014 multilateral engagements with a focus on hemispheric and international organisations as well as an update on the situation in the Turks and Caicos Islands. (CMC)
