Credits of the Subject “Association of Caribbean States”: 1
Duration: one week
The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) was created in 1994 in Cartagena de Indias (Republic of Colombia, America), with the objective of promoting the consultation, cooperation and concerted action between all the Caribbean economies: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
The objectives of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) are the following:
To strength the Caribbean cooperation and integration process, creating an enhanced economic area in the region
To preserve the environmental integrity of the Caribbean Sea
To promote the Greater Caribbean sustainable development
The Association of Caribbean States has five ad hoc committees:
The observers and associated members of the Association of Caribbean States are:
Eight other non-independent Caribbean Countries are eligible for associate countries
The associate members of the Association of Caribbean States are
Aruba, Curaçao, France (on behalf of the French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique). British Virgin Islands, the Netherlands Antilles (Bonares, Saba, Saint Eustatius, Saint Maarten) and Turks and Caicos
The founding observers of the
Association of Caribbean States are the CARICOM Secretariat, Secretariat of Latin American economic System (SELA), Central American Integration System (SICA) and the Permanent Secretariat of the General Agreement on the Central American economic integration to
facilitate their participation in the works of the Ministerial Council and special committees
The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Caribbean Tourism Organization were admitted as founding observers in 2000 and 2001 respectively
The observer countries are Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, India, Italy, the Netherlands, South Korea, Morocco, Peru, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, and the UK
All the countries of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), except Suriname, are Christian countries.