GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—The United Nations Secretary-Common, António Guterres, will deal with Caribbean Group (CARICOM) leaders at their three-day summit in Barbados subsequent month, the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat introduced Wednesday.
It mentioned that the President of the European Fee, Ursula von der Leyen, would be the particular visitor of the regional leaders at their February 19-21 summit, which can be chaired by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley.
Mottley, the outgoing CARICOM chairman, Grenada Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell, the lately elected Premier of Montserrat, Reuben Meade, and CARICOM Secretary-Common Dr. Carla Barnett will even deal with the opening ceremony of the summit, which can be held on the Lord Erskine Sandiford Centre on the outskirts of the capital, Bridgetown.
The summit’s enterprise session can be held on the Wyndham Grand Barbados, Sam Lords Citadel in St Philip, on the easternmost finish of the island.
The summit can be held beneath the theme “Power in Unity: Forging Caribbean Resilience, Inclusive Development, and Sustainable Growth. ” The CARICOM Secretariat mentioned the regional leaders would focus on “a number of urgent points” for the group.
It mentioned these embrace meals and diet safety, local weather change and the local weather finance agenda, the continued challenges in Haiti, safety points, digital resilience, exterior relations issues, and the CARICOM Single Market and Economic system (CSME).
Different points, equivalent to maritime and air transport and reparations, will even be on the agenda.
The Secretariat mentioned that Prime Minister Mottley set the tone for CARICOM’s focus over the subsequent six months when her New 12 months’s message highlighted the necessity for the area to renew the total implementation of the CSME, which permits for the free motion of products, abilities, labor, and companies throughout the regional bloc.
