Tomorrow, Friday 14 June, the Dominican Republic will host an Extraordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Caribbean Forum (Cariforum), where delegates will analyze the 11th cycle of the European Development Fund and revise several of the organization’s regulations with a view to becoming more efficient and more in line with the new global reality.
The meeting will take place at the Treasury and representatives of the 16 Cariforum member countries will be attending. The current Cariforum president is Dominican Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso, who has held the post since July 2012. The member countries are Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Cariforum was created in October 1992 to promote cooperation and integration within the Caribbean. Today it coordinates financial aid provided by the European Union to Caribbean countries that currently benefit from the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
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