Saint Lucia - New Chairman of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean
States (OECS), Prime Minister Honourable Allen M. Chastanet, has called
for deeper economic integration and more extensive functional cooperation
between small island developing states.
Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister took over the chairmanship
from Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis Honourable Dr. Timothy
Harris and will serve for one year.
Prime Minister Chastanet has noted that the OECS
needs to “assert ourselves on the world stage” and added that the
Revised Treaty of Basseterre must be implemented in a
manner that is “strategic, innovative and fearless.”
As the current Chairman of the OECS, Prime Minister
Chastanet is committed to continuing work on the economic union, facilitating
business development, and promoting functional cooperation with particular
attention being to justice and security and climate change.
