BARCELONA, Spain, CMC - Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries Monday appealed for continued international financial assistance to deal with the HIV-AIDS epidemic.
In an addressing commemorating the 10th anniversary of the XIV AIDS Conference here, St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas, who has responsibility for health issues within the 15-member CARICOM grouping, said a decade after signing an accord with six pharmaceutical companies in Barcelona, “we can truly and optimistically pronounce the aspirational goal to achieve an AIDS-free generation”.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite and Assistant Secretary-General Foreign and Community Relations, Ambassador Colin Granderson will participate in the International Conference for the Economic and Social Development of Haiti in Madrid, Spain, from 29-30 November 2006.
CARICOM Heads of Government have concluded a new round of talks in two Summits held 16 and 17 May 2002 respectively.
On Thursday 16 May, CARICOM Heads of Government met with their Spanish counterpart, H.E. Jose Maria Aznar in the Second CARICOM-Spain Summit as a follow-up to their First Meeting, which was held in Port-of-Spain in July 1999. At that First Meeting, CARICOM-Spain relations were put on a firm footing with the signature of the Scientific and Technical Cooperation Agreement between the Caribbean Community and the Kingdom of Spain.
The Prime Minister of Spain hosted the Second CARICOM - Spain Summit on 16 May 2002 in Madrid, Spain. In attendance on the Caribbean side were the Presidents of Guyana and Haiti, the Prime Ministers of Barbados, Belize and Jamaica, the Vice President of Suriname and representatives from The Bahamas, St Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago and the CARICOM Secretary-General.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Spain are poised to start an exciting new phase in their relationship.
This is the result of a two-day seminar at the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) headquarters in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago which ended on Saturday October 30, 1999. The CARICOM Secretariat, Latin American Economic System (SELA), and the Spanish Agency for International Co-Operation (AECI) organised the seminar as a follow up to the discussion held in Port-of-Spain last July during the visit of Spanish Prime Minister Don Jose Maria Aznar.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, the Latin American Economic System (SELA) and the Spanish Agency for International Co-operation (AECI) will meet at the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) Secretariat's offices in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 29-30 October 1999.
This meeting comes in the wake of the discussions held last July in Port-of-Spain between CARICOM leaders and the Prime Minister of Spain, Don Jose Maria Aznar prior to the XIX Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community.