Dominica will host the Thirteenth (13th) Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) from May 5-6, 2010. COFCOR comprises the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
The Meeting will be chaired by Minister for Employment, Trade, Industry, and Diaspora Affairs, Hon. Colin McIntyre. Dr McIntyre also has responsibility for CARICOM affairs.
Matters for discussion over the two days include:
CARICOM’s response to the Haitian catastrophe
The changing geopolitical dynamics in the hemisphere
Post Copenhagen- challenges and policy responses
Relations with Third Countries and Groups of Countries
Multilateral and Hemispheric Relations to include the United Nations, the Organisation of American States(OAS), Association of Caribbean States(ACS) and the Human Rights Council
Border Issues to include Guyana- Venezuela Relations and Belize –Guatemala Relations
Piracy in the Gulf of Aden
Matters relating to Community Relations to include discussion on the Role of Civil Society in the Caribbean Community (Project) and the proposed meeting of the Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians(ACCP) set for Trinidad, July, 2010
Operations and Functioning of the COFCOR
More than forty (40) delegates comprising Ministers of Government from each CARICOM Member State and the CARICOM Secretariat are expected in Dominica for the two-day meeting.
The COFCOR meeting is also expected to attract guests from a number of countries and institutions including Australia, Portugal and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Dominica’s hosting of the 13th Meeting of the COFCOR comes only weeks after Dominica hosted a successful Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community. (CARICOM).
– Sean Douglas, Government Press Secretary
Directed at Da, you don’t understand what kind of horrible things Ron and Eddison have done to Dominica. They should be jealous. Dr. Mac and Labour are doing soo much good to Dominica. Bringing in Caricom and everything like that. Ron and Eddison were horrible. Little kids do talk, and if thats the case, then you shouldn’t be talking. Thanks
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Jeolous of what? please post something constructive on there……………..little kids talk……….
WHO PAYS THE EXPENCES, THE TAX PAYERS OF DOMINICA OR CARICOM, GUSTARIA SABER MI HERMANO.
Things are shapping up good for Dominica. Important meetings being held there one after the other. Eddison and Ron jeolous.