1st ever African Union/ Caricom Summit 09/07/21
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UPDATE OCT 7 2021
Kenya, Barbados sign bilateral agreements on aviation, trade
Uhuru expressed optimism that the agreements will strengthen bilateral ties between the two nations.
Kenya and Barbados have signed three key bilateral agreements for cooperation in aviation, environmental conservation, trade and investment.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley witnessed the signing of an air services agreement, an MoU on the development of the national botanical garden of Barbados, and another one on the establishment of a Joint Committee on Trade and Investment, in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Foreign Affairs CS Raychelle Omamo signed the three agreements on behalf of Kenya while Ministers Lisa Cummins (Tourism and International Transport), Adrian Forde (Environment and National Beautification) and Jerome Walcott (Foreign Affairs And Foreign Trade) represented Barbados.
Speaking at a high-level meeting, Uhuru expressed optimism that the agreements will strengthen bilateral ties between the two nations.
He said Kenya and Barbados have steadily been working together to enhance cooperation.
He said Kenya and Barbados are focused on deepening people-to-people interactions, adding that it was the people who could turn the good relations between the two countries into profitable and meaningful relationships.
The President informed Prime Minister Mottley that the interaction between the business people of the two countries will act as a catalyst for bringing many more people, not only from Barbados but also the rest of the Caribbean region, to Africa to engage in trade, tourism, culture, sports, education and other aspects of common interest.
Uhuru disclosed that Kenya and Barbados are exploring ways of establishing direct air and sea links to enable the free movement of people, goods and services between the two countries.
“This is one area where we are hoping to find great success that will make it easy for the businessmen and women, those seeking to re-engage with the African continent, to be able to do so without having to wait for visas from third parties,” he said.
Prime Minister Mottley said the large number of members of the Kenyan private sector who attended the business forum in Barbados signified the seriousness the two countries have in strengthening their economic ties.
“Not even Covid can separate us. I think that all of us recognize now that we are in a marathon and not a sprint. And that we have had, in the past, to become resilient and this generation of Kenyans and Barbadians must be resilient to the times whether those times are affected by the pandemic or whether they are affected by the climate,” he said.
Saying Kenya represents the cradle of civilization, Prime Minister Mottley said it was critical that Barbados partnered with Kenya as a bridge to the East African region and the rest of the continent.
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Kenya, Barbados sign bilateral agreements on aviation, trade
Uhuru expressed optimism that the agreements will strengthen bilateral ties between the two nations.
Kenya and Barbados have signed three key bilateral agreements for cooperation in aviation, environmental conservation, trade and investment.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley witnessed the signing of an air services agreement, an MoU on the development of the national botanical garden of Barbados, and another one on the establishment of a Joint Committee on Trade and Investment, in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Foreign Affairs CS Raychelle Omamo signed the three agreements on behalf of Kenya while Ministers Lisa Cummins (Tourism and International Transport), Adrian Forde (Environment and National Beautification) and Jerome Walcott (Foreign Affairs And Foreign Trade) represented Barbados.
Speaking at a high-level meeting, Uhuru expressed optimism that the agreements will strengthen bilateral ties between the two nations.
He said Kenya and Barbados have steadily been working together to enhance cooperation.
He said Kenya and Barbados are focused on deepening people-to-people interactions, adding that it was the people who could turn the good relations between the two countries into profitable and meaningful relationships.
The President informed Prime Minister Mottley that the interaction between the business people of the two countries will act as a catalyst for bringing many more people, not only from Barbados but also the rest of the Caribbean region, to Africa to engage in trade, tourism, culture, sports, education and other aspects of common interest.
Uhuru disclosed that Kenya and Barbados are exploring ways of establishing direct air and sea links to enable the free movement of people, goods and services between the two countries.
“This is one area where we are hoping to find great success that will make it easy for the businessmen and women, those seeking to re-engage with the African continent, to be able to do so without having to wait for visas from third parties,” he said.
Prime Minister Mottley said the large number of members of the Kenyan private sector who attended the business forum in Barbados signified the seriousness the two countries have in strengthening their economic ties.
“Not even Covid can separate us. I think that all of us recognize now that we are in a marathon and not a sprint. And that we have had, in the past, to become resilient and this generation of Kenyans and Barbadians must be resilient to the times whether those times are affected by the pandemic or whether they are affected by the climate,” he said.
Saying Kenya represents the cradle of civilization, Prime Minister Mottley said it was critical that Barbados partnered with Kenya as a bridge to the East African region and the rest of the continent.
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Barbados, Afreximbank sign MOU; Plans to trade in local dollars within the region
Oct 4, 2021
(Barbados Today) – If all goes according to plan, Barbados and other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states could soon be trading with each other in their own local currency instead of US dollars.
This is one of the plans that Prime Minister Mia Mottley and President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Professor Dr. Benedict Oramah have placed on the agenda as they seek to establish closer trade and investment links between CARICOM and the African Union.
On Wednesday, Mottley signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Afreximbank as she kick-started the deepening of trade and investment cooperation between the two blocs.
Earlier, Oramah, who is on a four-day visit to the region, indicated that a wider CARICOM-Africa agreement would be put in place to accelerate trade and investment opportunities between the two groupings.
However, during the brief MOU signing ceremony at the Prime Minister’s official residents in Bridgetown on Wednesday evening, Mottley recalled the existence of the short-lived African Union (CMCF), saying she was hoping that coming out of this agreement a similar facility could be established.
“We heard you explained to us very clearly your success of being able to facilitate trade in Africa in local currency rather than seeking to find valuable hard currency to facilitate trade. And we certainly want to work with you and to learn how best [to do this],” said Mottley.
“We have maintained for some time, that even though the CARICOM Multilateral Clearing Facility failed 30 years ago, there is no reason for it to fail today if we plan it out properly and can work out what the commitments and the opportunities are. Our biggest trading partner in Barbados is in fact with Trinidad. Why should we be paying for goods in Trinidad in hard currency of US dollars and vice versa? So we need to see how best we can work together and leverage that,” she said.
The CMCF, which was established in the late 1970’s and came to an end by 1983, was a centralized payments clearing and settlement accounting system that allowed CARICOM member states and firms to, among other things, use their local currencies to settle transactions.
Pointing to several other areas for cooperation, Mottley recalled that during meetings over the past two days, officials looked at communication and direct air and sea link opportunities. She said they also discussed the need to explore opportunities for cash flow solutions for exporting firms and letters of credit.
Describing the lack of a direct air link between Africa and the Caribbean as a condemnation, Mottley said: “We accept that with the air transport market we will have to probably start with charters. And we accept that there is an increasingly large middle-class across Africa who have a desire to travel and for whom the Caribbean can be that place, which is home away from home, and we hope that we can work with you and other counties in Africa to be able to do so.”
She said it was also agreed that there were prospects for bulk procurement.
“Yesterday, we spoke about the fact that many of our countries have aged infrastructure for water and therefore we are securing prices on the basis of a limited and small market rather than seeing where else we can go with the bulk procurement,” she said,
“We are committed to being able to ensure that trade takes place of goods, movement of people and services, movement of information and once you can have information moving, people moving and goods moving then we can reconnect and ensure that the embodiment of CARICOM as the sixth region of the Africa Union can be real for all of us,” she said.
Mottley said she was hoping that by next year she would be in a position to be “very specific” about the areas of cooperation from which residents and businesspeople could start benefiting.
The MOU creates the framework for cooperation between Barbados and the Afreximbank to explore the areas of interest.
Afreximbank president Dr Oramah thanked Mottley for her “fantastic work” over the past few years of bringing the relationship to the level where it is at today. He said the MOU was the beginning of the process of turning ideas into action.
“I would like to assure the people of Barbados and the CARICOM in general that starting with Barbados, we will do what we have to do to make sure that the Caribbean returns to Africa and Africa embraces the Caribbean,” he said.
Oct 4, 2021
(Barbados Today) – If all goes according to plan, Barbados and other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states could soon be trading with each other in their own local currency instead of US dollars.
This is one of the plans that Prime Minister Mia Mottley and President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Professor Dr. Benedict Oramah have placed on the agenda as they seek to establish closer trade and investment links between CARICOM and the African Union.
On Wednesday, Mottley signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Afreximbank as she kick-started the deepening of trade and investment cooperation between the two blocs.
Earlier, Oramah, who is on a four-day visit to the region, indicated that a wider CARICOM-Africa agreement would be put in place to accelerate trade and investment opportunities between the two groupings.
However, during the brief MOU signing ceremony at the Prime Minister’s official residents in Bridgetown on Wednesday evening, Mottley recalled the existence of the short-lived African Union (CMCF), saying she was hoping that coming out of this agreement a similar facility could be established.
“We heard you explained to us very clearly your success of being able to facilitate trade in Africa in local currency rather than seeking to find valuable hard currency to facilitate trade. And we certainly want to work with you and to learn how best [to do this],” said Mottley.
“We have maintained for some time, that even though the CARICOM Multilateral Clearing Facility failed 30 years ago, there is no reason for it to fail today if we plan it out properly and can work out what the commitments and the opportunities are. Our biggest trading partner in Barbados is in fact with Trinidad. Why should we be paying for goods in Trinidad in hard currency of US dollars and vice versa? So we need to see how best we can work together and leverage that,” she said.
The CMCF, which was established in the late 1970’s and came to an end by 1983, was a centralized payments clearing and settlement accounting system that allowed CARICOM member states and firms to, among other things, use their local currencies to settle transactions.
Pointing to several other areas for cooperation, Mottley recalled that during meetings over the past two days, officials looked at communication and direct air and sea link opportunities. She said they also discussed the need to explore opportunities for cash flow solutions for exporting firms and letters of credit.
Describing the lack of a direct air link between Africa and the Caribbean as a condemnation, Mottley said: “We accept that with the air transport market we will have to probably start with charters. And we accept that there is an increasingly large middle-class across Africa who have a desire to travel and for whom the Caribbean can be that place, which is home away from home, and we hope that we can work with you and other counties in Africa to be able to do so.”
She said it was also agreed that there were prospects for bulk procurement.
“Yesterday, we spoke about the fact that many of our countries have aged infrastructure for water and therefore we are securing prices on the basis of a limited and small market rather than seeing where else we can go with the bulk procurement,” she said,
“We are committed to being able to ensure that trade takes place of goods, movement of people and services, movement of information and once you can have information moving, people moving and goods moving then we can reconnect and ensure that the embodiment of CARICOM as the sixth region of the Africa Union can be real for all of us,” she said.
Mottley said she was hoping that by next year she would be in a position to be “very specific” about the areas of cooperation from which residents and businesspeople could start benefiting.
The MOU creates the framework for cooperation between Barbados and the Afreximbank to explore the areas of interest.
Afreximbank president Dr Oramah thanked Mottley for her “fantastic work” over the past few years of bringing the relationship to the level where it is at today. He said the MOU was the beginning of the process of turning ideas into action.
“I would like to assure the people of Barbados and the CARICOM in general that starting with Barbados, we will do what we have to do to make sure that the Caribbean returns to Africa and Africa embraces the Caribbean,” he said.
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St Kitts and Nevis and Burkina Faso signs visa waiver agreement
St Kitts and Nevis and Burkina Faso signed a formal diplomatic relations and visa waiver agreement at Belgrade, Serbia
11 October 2021
Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso, Alpha Barry and Foreign Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Mark Brantley at Belgrade, Serbia
Basseterre: The Federation of St Kitts and Nevis and Burkina Faso signed a formal diplomatic relations and visa waiver agreement at Belgrade, Serbia, earlier this week.
Foreign Minister of St Kitts and Nevis and his counterpart Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso, Alpha Barry discussed the bilateral relations of both countries in the margins of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Serbia. Both leaders during the meeting discussed areas of mutual interest and cooperating in easing travel between Burkina Faso and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Foreign Minister Mark Brantley has cultivated strong bilateral relations with countries across the world and thus far achieved a milestone for gaining the Federations with visa-free travel to a number of countries around the world, placing St Kitts and Nevis among the finest in the region.
Similarly, Brantley also further developed St Kitts and Nevis' relations with Gabon by establishing a travel agreement with Foreign Minister Pacôme Moubelet-Boubeya
The developments occurred within the context of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, which took place this week in Serbia.
St Kitts and Nevis and Burkina Faso signed a formal diplomatic relations and visa waiver agreement at Belgrade, Serbia
11 October 2021
Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso, Alpha Barry and Foreign Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Mark Brantley at Belgrade, Serbia
Basseterre: The Federation of St Kitts and Nevis and Burkina Faso signed a formal diplomatic relations and visa waiver agreement at Belgrade, Serbia, earlier this week.
Foreign Minister of St Kitts and Nevis and his counterpart Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso, Alpha Barry discussed the bilateral relations of both countries in the margins of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Serbia. Both leaders during the meeting discussed areas of mutual interest and cooperating in easing travel between Burkina Faso and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Foreign Minister Mark Brantley has cultivated strong bilateral relations with countries across the world and thus far achieved a milestone for gaining the Federations with visa-free travel to a number of countries around the world, placing St Kitts and Nevis among the finest in the region.
Similarly, Brantley also further developed St Kitts and Nevis' relations with Gabon by establishing a travel agreement with Foreign Minister Pacôme Moubelet-Boubeya
The developments occurred within the context of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, which took place this week in Serbia.
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