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 Ambassador Patrick Boursin
Assistant Secretaries-General and other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Distinguished Guests
Members of the Media
Enfin nous y sommes! - Finally we are here! It is truly my pleasure and honour to do what history and geography, culture and anthropology have long deemed natural and inevitable. It is my pleasure to formally affirm the ties that bind the Caribbean Community and the French Departments in the Americas and Metropolitan France.
Press release 172/2005
(13 October 2005 )
Deputy Secretary General
Members of the CARICOM Staff
Distinguished Guests
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen
Today I am extremely honoured to welcome His Excellency Charles Maynard, and to receive his Credentials accrediting him as Dominica’s Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Your Excellency, I welcome you on this occasion to the new Headquarters of the Caribbean Community.
Your Excellency Bruno Picard, High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary Representative of Canada to the Caribbean Community;
Deputy Secretary General;
Representatives of the Canadian High Commission;
Members of the Media;
Members of Staff of the Secretariat
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) today welcomed the third ambassador from India to be accredited to the Community at a ceremony where CARICOM Secretary General Mr. Edwin Carrington emphasised that India has proven to be a friend of the Region in several areas.
Members of staff
Members of the Media
I look forward to receiving today, the letter of introduction from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile naming, Ambassador Alfonso Silva as Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Chile to the Caribbean Community. I will accept that letter with pleasure, knowing that I do so from a country which has steadily increased its friendship with, and its contribution to, the development of the countries of the Caribbean Community over the past fourteen years of democratic stability.
Your Excellency Ambassador Jesus Silva, Plenipotentiary Representative (Designate) of the Kingdom of Spain to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite
Assistant Secretaries-General
Other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Other distinguished Guests
Representatives of the Media
Your Excellency
It is with great pleasure that I receive this letter from Secretary of State Colin Powell, designating you as Plenipotentiary Representative of the United States of America to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Mr. Secretary-General, it is an honor for me to be here today to present my credentials as United States Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community. The United States enjoys good relations with the countries of the Caribbean Community, so it is appropriate that the U.S. Government have direct representation with the CARICOM Secretariat.
The countries of CARICOM collectively constitute the third border of the United States, and they share strong cultural and historic ties with the U.S.
It is with great pleasure that I receive this letter from Secretary of State Colin Powell, designating you as Plenipotentiary Representative of the United States of America to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).