HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Friday referred to as for “frank and open dialogue” if members of the Group of 77 and China are to realize their sustainability and resilience objectives within the face of exterior financial shocks.
Addressing the two-day summit of the Group of 77 and China, Skerrit, who can also be the chairman of the 15-member regional integration motion, CARICOM, stated the occasion supplies a much-needed alternative for reflection on the substantive agenda that seeks to propel the worldwide south in the direction of a sustainable future.
The summit, which a number of different CARICOM leaders are attending, is being held underneath the theme “Present Growth Challenges: The Function of Science, Expertise, and Innovation,” and the Dominican prime minister stated that now, greater than ever, “we dwell in a world which is formed and pushed by science and know-how.
“The truth is, however the dimensions of an economic system or inhabitants, funding in science and know-how permits improvements throughout all sectors, permitting for brand spanking new productive processes important for human welfare and development.
“We have now all witnessed constructive outcomes when science and know-how are used as improvement drivers. For many years, it has been this driver that has influenced the blueprints from which nations within the Caribbean and throughout the G77 have set and achieved major developmental targets and determine options to boost our resilience agenda, particularly in an period of unprecedented geopolitical challenges to the financial improvement of the worldwide south.”
Skerrit stated that the CARICOM area stays dedicated and fixed in its advocacy for significant exchanges of the worldwide south in all worldwide relations and commerce features. He stated these exchanges facilitate capability constructing in essential areas, together with public well being, training, data know-how, infrastructure improvement, meals safety, vitality safety, local weather change, and catastrophe mitigation.
“Whereas we within the international south have made notable progress in science and know-how, we should acknowledge that there stays a lot to be achieved to boost and assist our improvement efforts,” he stated, including, “Our collective pursuit of innovation in science and know-how for international improvement, facilitates clear and long-lasting shared advantages, offering an efficient path to deal with the present challenges.”
Skerrit warned that “with out solidified multilateral engagements, growing nations could proceed to face important challenges in accessing the improvements urgently required.”
To this finish, the Caribbean, tiny island states, has sought to make sure that it continues actively taking part in science and know-how.
“From renewable vitality initiatives and medical sciences improvements to ground-breaking analysis in marine biology, agriculture, and local weather resilience, the area continues to show our dedication to harnessing science and know-how for sustainable improvement.
“Conversely, to create a extra conducive atmosphere for funding and development, all of us acknowledged the necessity to promote strategic harmonization of technological insurance policies on the authorized and regulatory atmosphere.
“We’re united on the significance of carving out a common infrastructure that ensures the affordability and entry of applied sciences, and the necessity for acceptable expertise and consciousness throughout the area, by the event of a CARICOM Single ICT House and strategic consideration to our agriculture, aquaculture, and horticulture industries, amongst different interventions. “
However he informed the summit that the Caribbean additionally seeks to foster significant engagement in multilateral exchanges that facilitate mutually useful investments in know-how and proceed to supply entrepreneurs of tomorrow within the area.
“As heads of small island growing states, we imagine that this may assist the rising curiosity in methods we will collectively maintain international innovation, cut back our exterior debt and meals imports, and positively change the lives of our individuals.”
Prime Minister Skerrit stated that whereas international responses point out that the worldwide south faces persistent obstacles on its path in the direction of improvement in a fancy international atmosphere, he needed to reiterate “that multilateral cooperation throughout the Group of 77 and China is critical to assist our collective efforts to realize our intersecting developmental targets.
“It’s this collaboration that can help us in fostering significant technological improvements and guaranteeing cohesive socioeconomic improvement that may face up to exterior financial shocks.”
He stated the two-day summit acknowledges that science and know-how underpins all of this,’ including there’s supporting proof of a direct correlation between scientific analysis and financial improvement.
“Digital applied sciences, robotics, synthetic intelligence, biotechnology, and nanotechnology all have far-reaching impacts and current alternatives and challenges concerning the economic system, society, and the atmosphere which are already felt in all nations.
“By investing in these efforts, we will create extra inclusive, democratic, and simply societies that worth worldwide solidarity and cooperation in areas of collective significance. As such, this type of high-level engagement is essential to constructing robust and mutually useful relationships.”
Skerrit stated that south-south cooperation continues to strengthen these relationships primarily based on belief, respect, friendship, and collaboration, including that “by doing so, we will work in the direction of a extra equitable, sustainable, and affluent world.”
He stated it’s essential that member nations preserve a versatile and adaptable method to innovation that permits for steady studying from the very best insurance policies, practices, rules, legal guidelines, technical requirements, and companies worldwide.
“As we search to unlock a brighter future for our nations and peoples, we should acknowledge that reaching this requires breaking down and eliminating present boundaries, selling worldwide cooperation, and rectifying historic injustices.
“It additionally requires relentless, intentional constructing of partnerships to maneuver growing nations from the fledgling levels of utilizing important applied sciences and forging interfaces with universities, laboratories, innovation incubators, and personal sector entities on the forefront of the Science and technological change.
“Allow us to collaborate and commit – with larger resolve, to create a world the place each nation can leverage the ability of science, know-how, and innovation to enhance the lives of its individuals.”
Skerrit stated that CARICOM is dedicated to constructing extra sustainable economies and stays keen to assist and encourage all mutually useful partnerships, result in synergistic options, and foster socioeconomic development within the Caribbean area.
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