BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS – St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas discussed local, regional and international security issues Monday with Commander of the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), General Douglas Fraser ahead of a Caribbean Nations Security Conference 2012 (CANSEC).
General Douglas Frasier and Commander of the St. Kitts-Nevis Defence Force, Lt. Colonel Patrick Wallace, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Douglas who is down to deliver the feature address at December 12-14th conference at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort and Royal Beach Casino.
The three-day conference, which is co-hosted by the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) and the St. Kitts-Nevis Defence Force, is an annual executive level conference which affords regional military chiefs and the combatant commander of SOUTHCOM, a forum to discuss US military support to regional information sharing.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Regional Information Sharing; to Counter Transnational Organized Crime (C-TOC) and assist Foreign Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HA/DR).
The meeting will be attended by military chiefs of those CARICOM member states with military forces; those countries without military forces will be represented by their commissioners of police.
Also attending will be the Interim Director of CARICOM IMPACS, the Co-ordinator of the Regional Security and observers from other regional organisations.
