Your Excellency, the President of Guyana, Honourable Ministers, Distinguished Delegates, Staff of the Secretariat, Members of the Media, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Mr. President, it is with pleasure that I welcome you, Ministers of Agriculture and delegations to our new Headquarters Building so beautifully provided by the Government of Guyana. We think it was a worthy end to the waiting.
Your Excellency Ambassador Ohlraun
Deputy Secretary-General
Assistant Secretaries General
Members of the Media
Staff,
It is my pleasure on behalf of the Caribbean Community, to welcome you, Excellency, to the CARICOM Secretariat for this Accreditation Ceremony, the first for the year 2006.
Your Excellency Mr. Secretary-General
 Madam Deputy Secretary-General
Members of CARICOM staff
Representatives of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen,
With my accreditation as Plenipotentiary Representative, the Caribbean Community and Germany establish formal relations.
 Your Excellency Mr. Secretary-General Madam Deputy Secretary- General Members of CARICOM staff Representatives of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen,
With my accreditation as Plenipotentiary Representative, the Caribbean Community and Germany establish formal relations.
Mr Chairman, the Hon Knowlson Gift Minister of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago
Other Honourable Ministers
Your Excellencies
Ambassadors to the Caribbean Community
Distinguished Delegates
Deputy Secretary-General and Staff of the Secretariat
Ladies and Gentlemen
Today is for me a very special day. It is the first opportunity to welcome the Community’s second highest organ to the new Headquarters of the Caribbean Community Secretariat, which truly befits the Community’s highest aspirations.
Mr. Chairman Assistant Director-General of Health of Canada Members of the Diplomatic Corps Executive Secretary, CROSQ Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat Ladies and Gentlemen
As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community it gives me very special pleasure to welcome you to our new Headquarters here at Turkeyen, and I hope that your deliberations will not only be enjoyable but fruitful.
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Hon Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize |
His Excellency Bharrat Jagdeo, President of the Republic of Guyana
His Excellency, Runaldo R. Venetiaan President of the Republic of Suriname and Chairman of the Caribbean Community
Other Heads of State and Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community
His Excellency Ricardo Lagos Escobar, President of the Republic of Chile
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds Ministers of Government Mr Speaker and Members of Parliament Ambassador Tatsuo Arima, Special Envoy of the Government of Japan
Other members of the Diplomatic Corps
His Excellency the Director-General of UNESCO
Members of the UNESCO delegation
Assistant Secretaries General of CARICOM
Ladies and Gentlemen
Members of the Media
It is my pleasure this morning to be part of this ceremony heralding deeper relations between the Caribbean Community and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). I am also pleased to welcome to the headquarters of the Community and the CARICOM Secretariat, His Excellency Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO.
Once again, as Secretary General of CARICOM, I extend best wishes to the women of the Caribbean Community on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 2003.