U.S Deputy Secretary of State, John J.Sullivan.
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By Nelson A. King
The United States Department
of State says senior leaders
from 18 Caribbean countries
are attending the two-day
historic launching of the USCaribbean
Resilience Partnership
Ministerial in Miami, Florida,
which began yesterday.
The State Department said
on Wednesday that Deputy Secretary
of State, John J. Sullivan
will host the launching
of the two-day ministerial, “a
new collaborative effort to build
regional capacity to confront
disaster response and promote
resilience.”
“Leaders will discuss new
opportunities for collaboration
to enhance the region’s preparedness
and response efforts,”
the State Department said.
It said that Caribbean countries
represented at the meeting
are: Antigua and Barbuda; The
Bahamas; Barbados; Belize;
Dominica; Dominican Republic;
Guyana; Grenada; Haiti;
Jamaica; St. Kitts and Nevis;
St. Lucia; St. Vincent and the
Grenadines; Suriname; Trinidad
and Tobago; and the Dutch
islands of Aruba, Curacao, and
Sint Maarten.
The Caribbean Emergency
Disaster Management Agency
and the Regional Security System
will also attend, the State
Department said.
It said senior officials from
several US departments, agencies
and offices will attend the
event.
They include: Miami-based
US Southern Command; the US
Agency for International Development;
the Federal Emergency
Management Agency; the Federal
Aviation Administration;
the Federal Communications
Commission; the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration;
the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration;
the Department of Energy; the
Inter-American Foundation;
and the US Geological Survey.
“Deputy Secretary Sullivan’s
engagement with our Caribbean
neighbors, with the support
of a broad coalition of the
US government, will reaffirm
the United States’ strong commitment
to the Caribbean,” the
State Department said.
The launching of the USCaribbean
Resilience Partnership
Ministerial comes on the
heels of a meeting United States
President Donald J. Trump held
last month with a select group
of Caribbean leaders at his Mara
Lago resort in Palm Beach,
Florida.
Trump met with five Caribbean
leaders — the prime ministers
of the Bahamas, Jamaica
and St. Lucia, and the presidents
of Haiti and the Dominican
Republic — with Venezuela
clearly dominating the discussions.
Trump promised new investments
in the five Caribbean
countries as a result of supporting
Washington’s bid to oust
Venezuela’s President Nicolas
Madura.
The US Department of the
Treasury said it was imposing
new sanctions on the South
American country purportedly
in response to the kidnapping of
a top aide of Venezuela’s Opposition
Leader, Juan Guaidó, who
Trump is determined to replace
Maduro.
In the build-up last month’s
meeting, the White House had
announced that Trump was
meeting with the select group
of Caribbean leaders to “reaffirm”
Washington’s “strong
friendship with and commitment
to these countries, and
signal the importance of the
Caribbean to the hemisphere.”
Historic US-Caribbean
partnership launched in Miami