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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
HAVANA – Agriculture ministers from three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are attending the first meeting of the Petrocaribe Agriculture Ministers Council in Havana, the official Granma newspaper reported Tuesday.
It said the officials from Suriname, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Jamaica have joined their counterparts from Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Cuba for the talks.
Granma said they are representing the 18 Petrocaribe member nations and that the Council's responsibilities include proposing a Food Security Treaty, as well as a mechanism to administrate the Oil Fund to the production of food.
"Such finance will be also used in agricultural innovation and integral development plans in countries participating in this mechanism, as part of the strategy to face the food crisis and global rise in food prices," Granma said.
Petrocaribe is the Venezuela oil initiative that forms part of President Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), the alternative to the Washington backed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
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