A two-day meeting between CARICOM and the United Nations opened yesterday and it is expected to focus on areas of economic and sustainable development for CARICOM, including debt sustainability and financing for development, which will touch on the issues of blacklisting and the withdrawal of correspondent banking relations, CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque has said.
Speaking at the Tenth General Meeting of the Caribbean Community, its Associated Institutions and the United Nations (UN) System, LaRocque said discussion will also centre on cooperation on other important issues, such as crime and security; Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and the 2030 Development Agenda; youth and human resource development; food security; agriculture and fisheries; and non-communicable diseases, HIV/AIDS and pandemics.
“The issue of human mobility brought about by the increasing flows of migrants into Member States of the Community will be discussed also, for the first time in this forum, as well as post-disaster displacement,” he told the many that gathered at the Secretariat’s Liliendaal Headquarters for the meeting.