Dec 2012 - High Commission for the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago ...

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Trinidad & Tobago is
appointed Chair of
CMAG
The
Commonwealth
Ministerial Action
Group (CMAG) held
its thirty-seventh meeting
in London on 16 April,
2012. This was the Group’s
first regular meeting
following its reconstitution
by Commonwealth Heads
of Government at their
Meeting in Perth in October
2011.
The meeting was attended
by Senator the Hon Bob Carr,
Minister for Foreign Affairs of
Australia; Hon Dr Dipu Moni,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Bangladesh; Hon John Baird,
Minister for Foreign Affairs of
Canada; Hon AJ Nicholson,
Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Foreign Trade of Jamaica; Hon
Bernard K Membe, Minister
for Foreign Affairs
and International
Cooperation of
Tanzania; Hon
Dr Surujrattan
Rambachan,
then Minister of
Foreign Affairs and
Communications
of Trinidad and
Tobago; Hon Alfred Carlot,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Vanuatu; and Hon Ebun Jusu,
Deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs and International
Cooperation of Sierra Leone.
Among the items on the
agenda was the vote for CMAG
Chair and Vice-Chair. The Hon
Dr Surujrattan Rambachan,
then Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago
was unanimously voted in as
CARICOM High Commissioners
its Chair; and Hon Bob Carr,
Minister for Foreign Affairs of
Australia as its Vice-Chair.
Unfortunately Trinidad
and Tobago automatically
relinquished the CMAG Chair
when the Honorable Minister
was reassigned to the Ministry
of Local Government.
Pictured: Hon. Min. Rambachan greeting
Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth
Secretary-General during his visit to the
Secretariat in April.
On May 3rd High Commissioner Nicholas
facilitated a meeting between the
CARICOM High Commissioners and
Ambassador Lorne T McDonnough CD, CEO of
CARICOM Development Fund (CDF). The purpose
of the meeting was to brief the CARICOM Caucus
in London on the CDF’s resource mobilisation
efforts.
Among those in attendance were: Mrs Linda
Brice, Acting High Commissioner, High
Commission for St Lucia,
Mrs Joan Thomas-Edwards, Deputy High
Commissioner, High Commission for Jamaica,
and Mr. Euclid Goodman, Minister-Counsellor,
High Commission for Barbados
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London Mission