ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Prime Minister Gilmar Pisas says Curacao’s accession to the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) as an affiliate member “is a testomony to our shared imaginative and prescient of a united, affluent, and resilient Caribbean Group.”
“We additionally deliver with us the expertise, sources, and huge worldwide community of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which we will leverage in optimizing our collective strengths and financial connections and navigating geopolitical complexities to the good thing about all CARICOM member states and affiliate members,” Pisas stated on the signing ceremony.
He stated that the Dutch-speaking nation, which celebrated its 73rd anniversary of constitutional change on July 2 final 12 months, grew to become a part of the Netherlands Antilles, which was dismantled in 2010, and the “new” constitutional nation of Curaçao got here into being.
“These had been vital constitutional moments in our lengthy historical past inside the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Right now marks one other historic occasion for Curaçao as we formally be a part of the Caribbean Group as its sixth affiliate member, thereby honoring our nation’s dedication to a shared duty for the sustainable improvement and general progress and well-being of all nations inside the Caribbean Group. “
He stated simply as it’s the case with the opposite affiliate members of their relationship with the UK, Curacao’s membership of and commitments inside the household of the Kingdom of the Netherlands “is not going to compromise our dedication in the direction of additional regional integration and its aims as this dedication comes from the truth that we’re an integral a part of the Caribbean household.
“Our cultural identification is linked to the wealthy historic heritage of the Caribbean area. We intend to reveal a agency dedication to CARICOM and its members’ widespread aspirations.”
Pisas stated that by becoming a member of the regional integration motion, “we affirm our dedication to work collectively within the curiosity of the collective values and aspirations that bind all of us as small island improvement states within the Caribbean area.
“As well as, CARICOM’s mission to advertise financial integration and guarantee sustainable developments for all its members aligns completely with our nationwide aims,” he stated, including, “As we embark on this new chapter, we’re dedicated to contributing to and benefiting from the synergies that CARICOM membership presents.
“Regional integration and cooperation are helpful and important for our future improvement within the Caribbean area. Moreover, turning into an affiliate member of CARICOM will strengthen our already shut bonds with the Caribbean group’s members and affiliate members, enabling us to contribute extra successfully to the collective Caribbean trigger.
“On this regard, we deliver to CARICOM a singular mix of cultural traditions, financial strengths, and social views that hopefully will enrich the group.”
He stated that relating to purposeful cooperation, as Curaçao turns into extra conversant in the dialogue constructions and establishments inside CARICOM, “we stay up for collaborating in CARICOM’s sturdy community of help throughout the area and dealing along with different members on necessary points affecting our mutual progress, resilience, and sustainability.
“Financial integration is on the coronary heart of CARICOM’s mission. Our strategic location, pure ports, and well-developed bodily {and professional} providers infrastructure can function a hub for regional commerce. By investing in connectivity and logistics, we might help streamline the motion of products and providers throughout the Caribbean, boosting financial exercise amongst our nations and creating jobs for all of us. By working collectively, we will create a extra aggressive and resilient regional economic system.”
He stated that to reveal Curaçao’s agency dedication to regional commerce, Curacoa has already began negotiations with the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and is about to take action with Suriname.
“These negotiations will lead to mutually helpful commerce agreements with these member-states. When finalized, these commerce agreements will come into impact after our membership of the World Commerce Group is a truth.”
However he stated that other than financial integration, Curaçao is especially dedicated to supporting initiatives inside CARICOM that present the potential for collaboration in areas similar to renewable power, new types of agriculture, digital know-how and telecommunications, human capital improvement, local weather resilience, and sustainable improvement.
“These coverage areas maintain immense promise for our future improvement as small island improvement states and the collaboration between members of CARICOM. We’ll all profit if we pool our sources and experience to attain outcomes that profit all of us.
“Furthermore, the strategic relationships of Curaçao with key world gamers such because the European Union via its hyperlink to the Netherlands, and its relationships with giant South American international locations, together with Venezuela, Colombia, and Suriname, in addition to our relationship with the USA, positions us as a useful associate inside CARICOM. “
Pisas stated that these relationships have been cultivated over a few years of political, diplomatic, and financial engagement, and so they provide a wealth of alternatives for CARICOM as we transfer ahead collectively.”
He stated that consequently, these strategic relationships, in addition to the truth that 4 languages are spoken in Curaçao, “present us with a robust basis to behave as an middleman or liaison between CARICOM pursuits and the pursuits of those world and regional actors.
“We’re due to this fact completely poised to facilitate numerous political, financial, social, and cultural exchanges, dialogue, collaboration, and mutually helpful agreements that can profit all CARICOM member states and affiliate members.”
Pisas stated he firmly believes that CARICOM can successfully advocate the pursuits of its members as small island improvement states in world boards such because the United Nations, the World Commerce Group, and different multilateral establishments such because the Organisation for Financial Cooperation and Growth (OECD), the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF), and the World Financial institution.
“Regional cooperation makes it potential to extend the political affect in several worldwide coverage areas that contact the pursuits of small island improvement states. As a member of the household of small island improvement states, Curaçao stands able to help these efforts in any means potential,” he instructed the signing ceremony.
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