Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet leaders from the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) in Ottawa subsequent week at a Canada-CARICOM Summit, the primary to be held in Canada.
A information launch from the workplace of the Canadian prime minister states that Trudeau will co-chair the Summit, which is able to run from October 17 to 19, alongside the Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, present Chair of CARICOM which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this 12 months.
It notes that underneath the Summit’s theme of “Strategic Companions for a Resilient Future”, Trudeau and CARICOM leaders will advance shared priorities, together with constructing inclusive and sustainable economies, growing commerce and funding, and selling multilateral collaboration.
Trudeau will spotlight the significance of reinforcing democratic values, selling human rights and the rules-based worldwide order, and strengthening coordination on regional safety, together with responding to the continued safety, political, and humanitarian crises in Haiti, the discharge says.
The leaders will even focus on the impacts of local weather change within the Caribbean and discover methods to enhance entry to financing for Small Island Growing States within the Caribbean
In 2022, Canada’s two-way merchandise commerce with CARICOM nations reached $1.8 billion.
(CARICOM is a regional group that was established by the Treaty of Chaguaramas on July 4, 1973.
Its full members are Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago.
Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, and Turks & Caicos Islands are affiliate members.
