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The Chair’s position with respect to a regional and international trade agenda was evidenced by Mr. Miranda’s declaration that “we must contribute to the advancement of trade negotiations to be able to attain comprehensive, equitable agreements that foster economic growth and regional integration”. Recognising the importance of transport for facilitating intraregional commerce, the Chairman called on ACS members who had not yet done so to ratify the Air Transport Agreement thus speeding its entry into force. Among the numerous points treated at the meeting was the implementation of the trade module of the Integrated Information System of the Greater Caribbean, a comprehensive, internet-based database of trade statistics and economic information of ACS Member Countries. Discussions for a common definition of rum will also be undertaken anew, in an effort to work out the discrepancies among different rums in the Greater Caribbean, not the least of which was the issue of aging. The meeting ended on a positive note with the presentation of the preliminary results of the study “Special and Differential Treatment in Regional Integration Agreements in the Greater Caribbean” being carried out by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Latin American Economic System (SELA), with funding by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe. Photos of this meeting can be viewed at: http://www.acs-aec.org/PressCenter/PhotoGalleries/photo_19thmeetingSpecialCommittee_29062006.htm 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 . For further information, please contact: Denise Lewis Martínez |
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