Nassau, Bahamas - Hon. Fred Mitchell MP, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration leaves the country for New York City on Sunday (3rd May) for an address to the United Nations as part of a High Level thematic debate on the relationship between the United Nations and the CARICOM region. Mitchell will be filling in for Bahamas Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie. The address will be delivered on Monday, the 4th May.

Following the address, the Foreign Minister leaves New York for Trinidad and Tobago where he will again fill in for the Prime Minister at a Commonwealth sponsored University of the West Indies Forum on the future of the Caribbean. That address will take place on Tuesday, the 6th May.

Mitchell will return to Nassau on the 7th May.