Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Minister of Foreign Affairs (centre) led a delegation to the First Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) – China Forum which is being held in Beijing, China on January 8-9, 2015.
GINA said that the CELAC-China Forum is a bi-regional mechanism aimed at promoting cooperation between the CELAC Member States and China in a wide range of areas including: training of human resources; transfer of technology; infrastructure development; climate change; energy, natural resources; cultural exchanges and agriculture. The Government of China, in collaboration with regional financial institutions will provide concessional financing for many of the projects developed within the framework of this mechanism, GINA added.
