NEW YORK – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Foreign Affairs will over the next two days be fully engaged in a series of meetings on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Foreign Ministers will convene the Twelfth informal consultations of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) on Friday September 25, 2009 with a packed agenda of critical issues.
Much attention is expected to be given to the issue of climate change, on which the Region has taken an active role in the negotiations leading up to the December 2009 meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Foreign Ministers will also spend some time on issues in relation to the proposals for the reform of the UN Security Council. Much attention will also be given to the area of agriculture and food security particularly in regard to the World Food Summit in Rome from November 16-18, 2009.
The Region’s preparations for two upcoming hemispheric meetings to be hosted in Jamaica will also be discussed. These meetings are the Ministerial Meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean on Integration and Development (CALC) and the Twenty Eighth Ministerial Meeting of the Rio Group.
On Saturday, September 26, 2009 they are joined by the Dominican Republic for a meeting with the United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.
