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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat yesterday welcomed Sir George Alleyne, Director Emeritus of the Pan-American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation, on a visit to interact with the staff of Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP).

Sir George informed that his session with the PANCAP staff entailed discussion on issues of best practice and the Partnership’s structure and function. He commented that PANCAP had done well and that its communications programme had proved to be effective.

Heads of State and Government of CARICOM Member countries and the Head of Government of Spain met for a joint working meeting with the aim of reviewing political and economic issues as well as matters related to cooperation which affect both parties. At the end of the III CARICOM-Spain Summit, held in Madrid (Spain) on 10-11 May 2006, the following Joint Declaration was signed_

JOINT DECLARATION

1. POLITICAL DIALOGUE

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be in Europe this week attending two Summit Meetings.

Seven of the leaders accompanied by Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, His Excellency Edwin Carrington, will attend the Third CARICOM-Spain Summit in Madrid, Spain, on 10-11 May and the Fourth European Union (EU) – Latin American Caribbean (LAC) Summit in Vienna, Austria, on 12-13 May.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Statistical officials of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met at the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana on 2-3 May to discuss the completion of national reports for the 2000 round of census exercises.

For the second time in less than a week, it is a great pleasure for me as Secretary-General of CARIFORUM to be participating in a signing ceremony with a representative of the European Union.

Just last Saturday in Barbados, Ambassador Amos Tincani, the European Delegate to that Member State in he Region, and I signed a rider to an agreement which benefited the West Indies Rum and Spirits Producers Association (WIRSPA). That was a good agreement.

Ladies and Gentlemen_ It is a great pleasure to be with you this morning for the signing of this financing agreement between CARIFORUM and the European Commission. It is some time since I have been able to sign a Regional financing agreement but I hope soon to be able to sign more since there are several other projects in the pipeline.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Tertiary institutions in Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be brought into the fold of distance and e-learning via the Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKLN) through the financial assistance of the European Union (EU).