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Senator, the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and ForeignTrade, is currently in Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis for the Special Meeting of the CARIFORUM Council of Ministers.
The two-day Meeting which started today, (March 26), will seek to finalise the CARIFORUM Negotiating Mandate for the region’s participation in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)/European Union (EU) Post-Cotonou Negotiations.
With the Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA), which governs the relationship between the ACP and the EU, scheduled to expire in February 2020, and with negotiations for the successor arrangement scheduled to begin in August of this year, it is essential that all parties finalise their negotiating mandates earliest.
Jamaica, which assumed presidency of the ACP, February 1, 2018, has been playing aleading role in the ACP preparatory process in this regard.
CARIFORUM Ministers and their teams will also take into consideration the status of the technical dialogue with the UK post BREXIT.
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