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NR/09/2006
ACS NEWS RELEASE

Cuba at helm of ACS Transport Committee

PORT OF SPAIN, (March 31, 2006) – The ACS Ministerial Council has named Cuba to chair its Special Committee on Transport, making this the second successive year that Cuba will be at the head of the Committee. Haiti and France ( Martinique) were elected to the post of Vice Chairman and Guatemala was named Rapporteur.

Angel Socarras , Director of International Relations at Cuba’s Transport Ministry and Chairman of the Transport Committee, in presenting his annual report to the Preparatory Meeting, reiterated the importance of the signature and ratification of the Air Transport Agreement. To date, fifteen Member States have signed the agreement and four have deposited their instruments of ratification. In order for the agreement to enter into force, at least nine ratifications must be received from the signatory countries.

 


The ACS Air Transport Agreement is a multilateral agreement that seeks to liberalise air services among member countries, thereby stimulating an increase in intra-regional services while ensuring the highest degree of operational safety and security in international civil aviation. This agreement is also essential to the implementation of the ACS programme for “ Uniting the Caribbean by Air and Sea”.

The Executive Boards of the ACS Special Committees are elected for a term of one year, with the possibility of re-election for a second consecutive year. The list of members of the Executive Board elected to serve for 2006 is availble below:

Executive Board of the Ministerial Council
Special Committee on Budget and Administration
Special Committee on Trade
Special Committee on Transport
Special Committee on Sustainable Tourism
Special Committee on Natural Disasters

Council of National Representatives of the Special Fund


 


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
Communications Officer
Association of Caribbean States
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Tel : 1-868-622-9575
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