European, Caribbean and African parliamentarians will gather in Guyana next week for the third regional meeting of the ACP-EU Parliamentary Meeting.The four-day meeting starts on Tuesday, to be followed by a formal opening ceremony on Wednesday. Topping the agenda will be the recent Economic Partnership Agreement that the Caribbean signed with Europe, the global financial crisis and climate change, Head of the Presidential Secretariat,China NFL Jerseys Cheap, Dr Roger Luncheon, said yesterday.According to the draft programme, the speakers at the opening ceremony will be Mr Ralph Ramkarran, Speaker of the National Assembly; Mr Wilkie Rasmussen, Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly; and Mrs Glenys Kinnock, Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. The feature address will be delivered by President Bharrat Jagdeo.On Thursday, discussions will focus on regional integration and the Regional Strategy Paper for the Caribbean, and relations with Latin America, Overseas Countries and Territories and French Ultra-peripheral regions.Also up for deliberation on Thursday are climate change and natural disasters and their impact on the region, along with security, human rights, elections and governance in the Caribbean, the financial and credit crisis and its impact on the region,Cheap Jerseys Supply, and the narcotics trade and its impact on the region.The CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is the only comprehensive EPA negotiated so far and was signed by all parties (except Haiti) in October 2008.Although there are detailed provisions on development cooperation in every chapter,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, there remains dispute over their adequacy, with critics arguing that neither countries’ needs nor the availability and delivery of funds have yet been established clearly.The delegates will consider a report that addresses this controversy by identifying, on the one hand, the financial costs of dealing with the adjustment and implementation costs of the EPA (focusing on Barbados,DeVante Parker Dolphins Jersey, Guyana, and Suriname) and, on the other hand, the financial resources made available already by the European Commission (EC) and the Member States and those that will be made available in future.The report discusses the challenges of delivering aid,Wholesale Jerseys China, and the efforts that the region has already undertaken to coordinate EPA-related funding activities.On the basis of this evidence, the report assesses the adequacy of the development chapter of the EPA and recommends how to enhance its effective implementation.Participants will include Parliamentary representatives from the European Union,Cheap NFL Jerseys 2018, and from the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of countries.Guyana’s delegation will be led by Donald Ramotar of the People’s Progressive Party and will include members of the Parliamentary Opposition.
