By Vinette K. Pryce
The inaugural summit
between the 55-member
nations of the Africa Union
and the Caribbean’s 15-member
CARICOM is on and being
touted as historic.
“It is truly an historic event,”
David Comissiong, Barbados
ambassador to CARICOM said,
“and I hope and trust it will
be telecast live to the peoples
of the Caribbean community
on multiple platforms inclusive
of our national television stations.”
Commissiong was jubilant
about the premiere convening
of Pan-African leaders despite
the virtual format necessitated
by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Slated to commence on Sept.
7, according to the Barbados
emissary, the first such meeting
is being held at a time that
marks the “48th anniversary
year since the establishment of
CARICOM; 53 years after the
founding of CARIFTA (Caribbean
Free Trade Agreement);
58 years since the establishment
of the Organization of
African Unity (OAU); 76 years
after the fifth Pan-African congress
which (was held in Manchester,
England and united
African and Caribbean leaders
to conceive decolonization and
self-governance); and 500 years
after the commencement of
the criminal and tragic European
enslavement of Africans
to the Caribbean.”
It is his belief that exchanging
ideas will unite continents
and countries — often referred
to as Developing or Third World
Nations.
Participants at the event will
include heads of state and government
of the Caribbean community
and the African Union,
Chairs of CARICOM and the
African Union Commission,
and the Africa Regional Economic
Communities (RECs),
the Secretaries-General of
CARICOM and the Organization
of the African Caribbean
and Pacific States (OACPS),
and the President of Caribbean
Development Bank (CDB).
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Kenya will host the virtual
event under the theme ‘Unity
Across Continents and Oceans:
Opportunities for Deepening
Integration.’
Kenya’s President Uhuru
Kenyatta will chair the summit.
Postponed from last year
schedule due to the Covid-19
pandemic, the summit follows
on the Declaration by the
African Union of the Diaspora
as the sixth region of Africa
and follows a series of visits
between the leaders of CARICOM
and Africa.
Two years ago, Ghanaian
President Nana Akufo-Addo and
President Kenyatta of Kenya
visited the Caribbean.
Barbados Prime Minister
Mia Mottley reciprocated a year
later by visiting Kenya.
While in Kenya, PM Mottley
unveiled a plaque for a
CARICOM diplomatic mission
at an ultra-modern business
complex in Nairobi.
Last year, Trinidad & Tobago’s
PM Keith Rowley travelled
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta speaks during the closing
ceremony on the second day of the Global Education
Summit in London, Britain July 29, 2021. Tolga Akmen/Pool via
REUTERS/File
to Ghana.
And over the past two
years, Jamaica’s Prime Minister
Andrew Holness has visited
Namibia, South Africa and
Kenya.
Recently, CARICOM chairman,
Prime Minister of Antigua
and Barbuda, Gaston Browne
announced that the mission
will soon be opened as he is
committed to strengthening
relations between CARICOM
and Africa during his term as
chair of the regional integration
movement.
The mission, he said, would
serve as CARICOM’s platform
in Africa with a mandate to
develop beneficial relations
with all countries on the African
continent.
African, caribbean heads
unite at first-ever summit
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