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 CURRENT ISSUES
JOINT COMMUNIQUE ON BILATERAL DISCUSSIONS HELD BETWEEN HONOURABLE PATRICK MANNING, PRIME MINISTER OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO AND HONOURABLE DAVID THOMPSON, PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS, POS, FEB.20, 2008
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 SPEECHES & PRESS RELEASES
  13 May 2008  
Process Continues for Securing Maritime Space


Barbados
continues the process of securing its entitlements to maritime space. 
 
On Friday, May 8, Barbados’ case for an extension to the continental shelf was submitted to the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) of the United Nations. This is in accordance to Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
  09 May 2008  
Agreements signed between Barbados and China

 

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Business, the Hon. Christopher Sinckler, and the People's Republic of China Vice Minister of Commerce, Ma Xiuhong, exchanging documents after the signing of the agreements.


 Barbados should look forward to much more technical and financial assistance from the People’s Republic of China in the wake of the two important agreements signed by both governments earlier this week in Beijing. That is the intimation from Barbados’ Foreign Minister, Christopher Sinckler, who was speaking shortly after the signing ceremony in the imposing and equally majestic Great Hall of the People. He initialed the agreement on behalf of Barbados, while Ma Xiuhong, China’s Vice Minister of Commerce, signed on behalf of her country.

  08 May 2008  
Greater Tourism Cooperation between Barbados and China

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao shakes hands with Prime Minister of Barbados the Hon. David Thompson before Wen hosts a welcoming ceremony for Thompson in Beijing, May 6, 2008.  [Xinhua Photo]


Barbados and China have pledge “to do more to enhance and develop tourism between the two countries and this should redound to (our) mutual interest.” Prime Minister David Thompson and the Director of China’s National Tourism Administration, Shao Qiwei, promised this during talks they had in Beijing on Wednesday, May 7.

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