President Danilo Medina left for Merida, Mexico yesterday, Tuesday 29 April to attend the Sixth Summit of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS).
He was accompanied by the Administrative Minister of the Presidency, Jose Ramon Peralta, Minister of Public Works Gonzalo Castillo, Minister of Interior and Police Jose Ramon Fadul, Youth Minister Jorge Minaya, Santo Domingo East mayor Juan de los Santos and Left United Movement (MIU) president Miguel Mejia.
At the summit, as well as discussing cooperation, tourism, transport and infrastructure issues they will also be examining the Petion-Ville Action Plan, which was a fundamental agreement at the previous summit in Haiti, and also two of the French overseas departments, Guadeloupe and Martinique will be admitted as new members of the ACS.
The ACS currently has 25 members: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
The ACS was set up in July 1994 and its aim is for consultation, cooperation and concerted action in common areas such as commerce, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters in the Greater Caribbean area.
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