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NR/02/2006
ACS NEWS RELEASE

HAITI REAFFIRMS SOLIDARITY WITH THE ACS


PORT OF SPAIN (January 26, 2006) – Haiti’s interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue paid a visit to the headquarters of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) this morning, where he met with the ACS Secretary General, Dr. Rubén Silié Valdez, and reiterated Haiti’s commitment to upholding the objectives of the Association.

Prime Minister Latortue recognised the ACS as an important vehicle for achieving regional integration and promised SG Silié the Haitian government’s full cooperation in realising this objective, as well as its active participation in the Association’s activities.

 


Prime Minister Latortue also expressed an interest in the organisation’s current work programme and was given an overview of the recent developments in the focal areas of trade, sustainable tourism, transport and natural disasters by the ACS Political Adviser, Dr. Watson Denis and the Director for Transport and Natural Disasters, Mr. Luis Carpio.

In turn, the interim Prime Minister of Haiti touched on the issue of the impending elections in his country, explaining that they would take place on the established dates.

The Secretary General thanked him for his visit and support for the ACS and expressed his desire that “the electoral process would conclude favourably and to the benefit of political stability and the social and economic development of the Haitian people”

Before leaving the ACS headquarters, Prime Minister Latortue held a brief encounter with the entire ACS staff, and in his informal address, which he delivered consecutively in English, Spanish and French, the Prime Minister urged them to work wholeheartedly towards the success of the work of the organisation and the goal of attaining the integration of the Greater Caribbean region.

The Prime Minister was accompanied by Haiti ’s Permanent Representative to the Organisation of American States, Ambassador Duly Brutus and Mr. Frantz Louis, Counsellor for International Relations in the Office of the Prime Minister.

 


About the ACS

The Association of Caribbean States is the organization for consultation, cooperation and concerted action in trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters in the Greater Caribbean. Its Member States are Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela. Its Associate Members are Aruba , France on behalf of French Guiana , Guadeloupe , and Martinique , and the Netherlands Antilles .


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Denise Lewis Martínez
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Association of Caribbean States
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