RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, CMC- The next is the total textual content of the joint communique issued after the inaugural Summit between Saudi Arabia and the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) on Thursday.
On the type invitation of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Management of Saudi Arabia, and the Leaders of the Caribbean Group (CARICOM), I met in Riyadh, on 16 November 2023 for the inaugural Saudi Arabia-CARICOM Summit.
The Summit was co-chaired by His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, His Excellency Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of Dominica, with the participation of Heads of State and Authorities of CARICOM and the CARICOM Secretary-Normal.
Reaffirming their mutual pursuits and pleasant relations, the leaders exchanged views on problems with frequent curiosity. They mentioned methods to broaden and advance their partnership to reap the benefits of the expansion alternatives that may be utilized by cooperation between their two dynamic areas based mostly on a shared imaginative and prescient and the values embodied within the United Nations (UN) Constitution.
The leaders at this second declare to:
- Be part of efforts to advertise peace, safety, stability, and prosperity by mutual respect and cooperation between international locations and areas to realize sustainable improvement and progress and preserve the rules-based worldwide order based mostly on adherence to worldwide regulation and the UN Constitution.
- Undertake consultations and discover cooperation on particular areas of frequent curiosity between each side, specifically training (scholarships), well being, maritime cooperation, connectivity, logistics, meals safety, power safety, tourism, economics, and different doable areas of cooperation, the place acceptable, together with the Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs).
- Strengthen ties between the 2 sides, on the multilateral and bilateral ranges, and in international fora by pursuing alternatives for sustainable improvement, peace, safety and stability, tourism infrastructure improvement, in addition to creating enterprise alternatives within the ICT/International Digital Companies sector and boosting commerce and funding flows by creating mutually useful alternatives for joint investments, with specific emphasis on sustainable infrastructure, renewables, commerce, tourism, logistics, and connectivity.
- Promote commerce and funding relations between Saudi Arabia and CARICOM by enhancing public-private partnerships and business-to-business relations between areas, utilizing out there and new bodily and on-line platforms, commerce missions, exhibitions, seminars, conferences, and dialogue.
- Assist Saudi Arabia’s bid to host Expo 2030 in Riyadh, highlighting the significance of organizing regional and worldwide exhibitions to reenergize financial and cultural exchanges between Saudi Arabia and CARICOM, conscious that particular person CARICOM Member States have pledged their help for Saudi Arabia’s candidature to host Expo 2030.
- Cooperate within the improvement of sustainable and round agriculture and the promotion of sustainable meals manufacturing, sustainable use and administration of water assets and promote commerce and funding alternatives in meals and agri-based industries and encourage the trade of knowledge, sharing of experiences, analysis, trendy applied sciences, and greatest practices, in addition to by conducting capability constructing actions.
- Promote dialogue among the many peoples and cultures of each side to reinforce belief and advance mutual understanding and great respect for variety, thus contributing to a tradition of peace.
- Construct on the 2 areas’ cultural variety, openness, and wealthy historical past to emphasize that tolerance and peaceable coexistence are among the many most important values and ideas for pleasant relations between nations and cultures.
- Promote the cultural and artistic industries of CARICOM and Saudi Arabia by cultural festivals, artwork exhibitions, movie festivals, workshops, e-book gala’s, and different occasions. Moreover, it encourages the trade of greatest practices and capability constructing in museology, safety, and conservation.
- And restoration of cultural and historic heritage.
- Promote cooperation in tourism, together with heritage, cruise, sustainable and ecotourism, medical and wellness, and tourism, by endeavor benchmarking actions, joint tourism investments, and strengthening capacity-building.
- Stress the significance and urgency of selling joint motion in the direction of mitigating local weather change, adapting to its impacts, defending the setting, and creating low-carbon and clear power applied sciences.
- Reaffirm the significance of working collectively to confront the worldwide challenges associated to local weather change, committing to all efforts to deal with this pressing problem by setting and attaining formidable objectives to scale back emissions, adopting renewable power manufacturing and clear applied sciences, together with for discount and elimination, selling equitable entry to local weather financing for Small Island Growing States (SIDS) to help mitigation and adaptation measures, and discovering revolutionary technical options that can speed up the transition to low-emission economies, and persevering with to discover sustainable and inclusive pathways to implement the objectives of the Paris Settlement.
- Welcome Saudi Arabia’s Center East Inexperienced Initiative (MGI) and its announcement to ascertain and host a devoted MGI Secretariat and allocate US $2.5 billion to help MGI initiatives and governance.
- Assist the announcement by Saudi Arabia about establishing a world water group based mostly in Riyadh, calling for additional decisive international motion.
- Stress the vital position that CARICOM and Saudi Arabia can play in internet hosting main sporting occasions, the Summit endorsed the candidacy of Saudi Arabia to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup—and Welcoming that the Caribbean will host the ICC T20 World Cup in 2024 and Saudi Arabia to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup.
- Acknowledge the vital initiatives Saudi Arabia and CARICOM arrived at of their respective areas and determined to carry the Second Saudi Arabia-CARICOM Summit in 2026.
- CARICOM Leaders expressed their appreciation to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, and His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Authorities and Folks of Saudi Arabia for his or her hospitality.
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