ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Group of American States (OAS) says Secretary Normal Albert Ramdin and the Ambassador of France to the Japanese Caribbean States, Barbados, and OECS, Francis Etienne, on Wednesday, signed an settlement to strengthen and promote the French language schooling within the Japanese Caribbean.
The OAS acknowledged that the settlement was signed throughout a ceremony held on the margins of the OAS Normal Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda.
In line with the settlement, the organizations will collaborate to “higher combine the usage of French into public schooling insurance policies” in St. Lucia, Dominica, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis.
The OAS stated the initiative additionally contains coaching French language lecturers in pedagogy, didactics, and linguistics.
Moreover, the OAS stated the mission goals to “spark scholar curiosity on the major and secondary ranges and enhance the variety of younger folks able to finding out and dealing in French.”
In the course of the signing ceremony on the headquarters of the OAS Normal Meeting in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, Ramdin highlighted the significance of the mission as a “pivotal settlement that underscores our collective dedication to progress, integration, and mutual understanding throughout the Americas.”
Ramdin additionally thanked France for his or her “unwavering assist, generosity, and dedication to multilateralism and cultural trade.”
The OAS stated Etienne “celebrated the initiative and reiterated France’s dedication to amplify cooperation with the Group.”
He stated the initiative is “the start, a small step for us right now, however an enormous step for cooperation between France and the OAS.
“We hope there can be different alternatives, not solely in selling languages, however when it comes to safety, well being, and different fields,” he stated, including: “This contains our concentrate on Caribbean tradition, Caribbean politics, and Caribbean growth.”
The OAS stated France has been a Everlasting Observer of the hemispheric physique since 1972.
