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Friday, May 9, 2025

Browne wants recruitment of more Caricom professionals in OAS Secretariat

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Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne, third from right, chats with Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro Lemes, second from left, in Los Angeles yesterday.   ↔Photo courtesy Ministry of Foreign and Caricom Affairs

Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne, third from right, chats with Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro Lemes, second from left, in Los Angeles yesterday. ↔Photo courtesy Ministry of Foreign and Caricom Affairs

This coun­try’s dis­cus­sions with the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS) lead­er­ship on Tues­day, has re­sult­ed in the OAS en­cour­ag­ing more en­gage­ment with the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) in the ar­eas of se­cu­ri­ty, de­vel­op­ment, hu­man rights and oth­er is­sues.

This was con­firmed in in­for­ma­tion from the For­eign Af­fairs Min­istry yes­ter­day, af­ter For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne met with Luis Al­ma­gro Lemes, Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the OAS in Los An­ge­les, USA.

Browne is in LA to­geth­er with Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young at­tend­ing the 9th Sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as. It is or­gan­ised by the OAS.

US Pres­i­dent Joe Biden will this evening launch the sum­mit, with an ex­pect­ed an­nounce­ment on an “Amer­i­c­as Part­ner­ship” fo­cus­ing on sup­ply chains, clean en­er­gy, trade, eco­nom­ic re­cov­ery and mo­bil­is­ing in­vest­ments.

Work­ing ses­sions with re­gion­al lead­ers fol­low over the next two days.

The min­istry stat­ed that Browne and Al­ma­gro Lemes “en­gaged in fruit­ful dis­cus­sions about the nexus” be­tween the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty and the OAS.

Browne ad­vo­cat­ed for the re­cruit­ment of more Cari­com pro­fes­sion­als in the OAS Sec­re­tari­at, and the dis­cus­sion in­clud­ed the shar­ing of per­spec­tives on cur­rent trends and de­vel­op­ments with­in the hemi­sphere.

Browne em­pha­sised the need for mem­ber coun­tries and or­gan­i­sa­tions such as the OAS to cre­ate and main­tain a pos­i­tive en­vi­ron­ment con­ducive to di­a­logue among all ac­tors.

The min­istry stat­ed that Al­ma­gro Lemes “ac­knowl­edged the en­abling ap­proach tak­en by Cari­com mem­ber states to­wards OAS ob­jec­tives, and en­cour­aged more en­gage­ment with Cari­com in the ar­eas of se­cu­ri­ty, de­vel­op­ment, hu­man rights, ed­u­ca­tion and pro­mot­ing good gov­er­nance.”

“Dis­cus­sions were cor­dial and pro­duc­tive and end­ed with both of­fi­cials agree­ing to con­tin­ue di­a­logue in the best in­ter­est of all the peo­ple of the re­gion of the Amer­i­c­as,” the min­istry stat­ed.

There are 35 mem­bers in the OAS.

Yes­ter­day, CNN re­port­ed that the White House had con­firmed 23 lead­ers are at­tend­ing the sum­mit, in­clud­ing Brazil’s Jair Bol­sonaro, who ini­tial­ly was un­cer­tain to show.

But some lead­ers — Mex­i­co, El Sal­vador, Hon­duras, Guatemala, St Vin­cent and An­tigua–aren’t at­tend­ing.

Biden’s launch to­day is ex­pect­ed to al­so un­veil US$300 mil­lion-plus as­sis­tance to fight food in­se­cu­ri­ty, as well as health ini­tia­tives and part­ner­ship on cli­mate re­silience.

To­mor­row, heads of del­e­ga­tions will con­vene for a ple­nary ses­sion on dis­cus­sion top­ics. These range from en­er­gy part­ner­ship and im­mi­gra­tion flow is­sues to im­proved pan­dem­ic man­age­ment, dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion and cli­mate change. - Gail Alexan­der

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