GRENADA AND AUSTRALIA TO DEEPEN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
NEW YORK, September 20, 2010 – Australia has agreed to set up a Consular Mission in Grenada.
This was among issues discussed between Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas and Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd during a meeting
held on Monday in New York.
The two officials held talks on the margins of the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly which opened last week.
“They will assign someone to deal with diplomatic matters - someone in the capacity of an honorary consul – and this I think again is quite significant,” said Prime Minister Thomas.
He said that they discussed continued support as well as strengthened relations between Grenada and Australia in other areas.
“We discussed several matters but the matter I was keen on discussing with him (Kevin Rudd) was the continued support for the restoration of the
Parliament in Grenada,” he said.
“He gave the assurance that nothing has changed”.
The Australian delegation, which also included Philip Green, Chief of Staff in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provided an outline of areas of
cooperation between both countries.
“We have a rock solid commitment to deliver assistance to Grenada,” said Green.
Minister Rudd also stated that Australia will look out for the interest of Grenada and other CARICOM countries, especially through the High-Level UN
Secretary General panels on climate change and sustainable economic and social development.
“Australia will continue to argue for the integration of CARICOM,” said Rudd. “We look forward to taking our bilateral relationship with Grenada
further,” Rudd added. He also said that Australia sees their friends in the Caribbean as important and that his government would continue working to
strengthen our relationships.
Australia has committed approximately US$100 million to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in
Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009, with 25 percent already delivered. The Australians have also supported a Young Diplomats programme, academic scholarships in various subject areas and provided assistance with disaster preparedness and response and sports development.
The Grenada delegation to Monday’s bilateral meeting also included Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Dessima Williams and Mr. Gerry Hopkins, Advisor to the Prime Minister.
Accompanying Minister Rudd at the meeting were Green; Peter Baxter, Director General of Australia Agency for International Development; Sally Watson,
Advisor; and Caroline Millar, First Assistant Secretary and Head of UN Security Council Task Force.
GRENADA AND AUSTRALIA TO DEEPEN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Torchlight our people have to go back to the drawing board. If we wants fruits vegetables and plants, we simply have to plant them again. If you dont plant you wont eat. If you want to lime starve but dont try to steal mine
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By: littleboy 9/26/2010 4:05:36 AM
Yes Littleboy I wish the goverment would take the land back from the useless black men whom uncle gave the lands to and give it to the Korean or the Chinese or to someone who will work it. You cant even get a bananna to buy in Grenada these days. This is just like mugabe in zimbabwe what a useless set of fools we have here?. I hope Australia takes note of this and dont give dont give them a dam thing
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By: Torchlight 9/24/2010 5:31:52 PM
I see the Prime Minister appealing for help from other nations. Why don't these dam fools learn to help themselves? They have the best soil, the best lands, why does he not appeal to the landowners to work? uncle took the lands from the white owners and gave it to them. Now they need to do something with it instead of liming and hanging out. Gabe what are you talking about re-educating? Grenada has the best education now and its free. THey getting everything free. We had to walk to school now they even getting bus fare, cloths and food and they graduating? they need to work, everyone cant be a doctor or a lawyer, we could make good living with the lands unless you want to pay $10.oo for a vincy breadfruit or buy the banannas from St. Vincent. Grenadians too dam lazy, I say let them suffer. Maybe they ought to eat one another
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By: littleboy 9/24/2010 12:50:15 PM
Hangman and Littleboy i hear you both but wait a minute these so called young men who sits by the roads sides/bars and drink-drink -all day without making any effort to find a job then please tell me where are they getting the money to buy the drinks ,and what was these same young men doing under the last government for it is my belief that this trend was set even under the last government as was once said to me by a young man when question and i quote what his answer was that mitchell was a good man and we dont care where or how he gets the money as long as he feed us and even today i do believe that some of them still have that mentality -beg,borrow,or steal,.guys if i may say this ,this government has only been in office this past two and a bit years yes there is a lot to be done to clean up some of the mess left behind by the last administration like re educating our people and reminding them that their country owes them nothing and that it is they who should be putting something back in the country for it is the people who build countries and not the other way round, as for this government they should not take our people for granted for they were elected on a mandate of trust ,transparency,and the belief in accountability and yes it is two years since and its about time we start to see some fruit bearing trees,
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By: gabe 9/23/2010 6:30:22 AM
WELL SAID LITTLEBOY,THEY DONOT WANT TO WORK AND DEVELOPE THEMSELVES AND THE COUNTRY,THEY PLAY THESE LITTLE GAMES HERE AND THERE,THE SITUATION HERE IS DISMAL. DO YOU SEE THESE YOUNG MEN THAT DRINK ALL DAY?DO YOU SEE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LIFE?LITTLEBOY A CULTURE DEVELOPE HERE THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR OUR FURTURE GENERATION.
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