Caricom foreign ministers have agreed that the Community needs to increase its participation in international bodies in order to continue to advocate for the interests of member states.
They were meeting at the sixteenth Council of Foreign and Community Relations (Cofcor) held earlier this week in Trinidad and Tobago.
A common theme in the remarks delivered was the significance of the 40th anniversary of the Caribbean Community, even though the meeting also noted that Caricom is operating in a challenging landscape.
Caricom Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque noted that this transition is taking place within the context of a dynamic and rapidly changing global environment, all of which impinged on the formulation and coordination of its foreign policy, the communiqué from the meeting said. In response, the Region must remain alert and proactive to confront these realities.
