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Last Updated: Dec 29, 2011 - 2:18:31 AM |
From left to right:
Mauricio Cortés Costa, OAS Executive Secretary for Integral Development
Jennifer Griffith, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism of Jamaica
Edmund Bartlett, Ministry of Tourism of Jamaica
José Miguel Insulza, OAS Secretary General
Carlos Vogeler, Regional Director for the Americas of the United Nations World Tourism Organization
Audrey Marks, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the OAS Photo: Patricia Leiva/OAS
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The
Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José
Miguel Insulza, today met with the Minister of Tourism of Jamaica,
Edmund Bartlett, and with the Regional Director for the Americas of
the World Tourism Organization (WTO), Carlos Vogeler, in his office
in Washington, DC.
During the meeting, the high officials
expressed their common desire to increase and reinforce cooperation
on matters of tourism between the institutions they represent, since
all of them share various common objectives and approaches to the
subject. In particular, they spoke about the need to raise the role
played by the tourism sector in countries of the region to face
economic, social and environmental problems of diverse types, such
as poverty, gender inequality and climate change.
Secretary
General Insulza expressed his wish to take advantage of the great
opportunities for collaboration that exist between the OAS, the
government of Jamaica and the WTO, and highlighted the importance of
the tourism sector in various Member States of the hemispheric
Organization. Bartlett and Vogeler, for their part, emphasized the
importance of tourism in strengthening relations between countries
of the region and expressed their wish to share future meetings with
the OAS leader.
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