Published 10 April 2019
Buckie Got It St Kitts and Nevis News Source
โDiplomatic Week is a most admirable initiative, providing as it does time within the context of global trends and current developments in international affairs to reflect and focus on the particular needs of small states in the Caribbean,โ said the Rightย Honourable Patricia Scotland in a video address. โIt has special significance this year during January until June in which St. Kitts and Nevis is Chair of CARICOM.โ
Commenting on the theme: โSecuring a Resilient Future through Strategicย Diplomacyย and Effective Dialogueโ, the secretary-general said it is timely and important.
โThis Diplomatic Week theme of resilience building relates directly to so much of our longstanding and continuing Commonwealth collaboration. Many countries of the Caribbean contribute to this and draw benefit from it in the Commonwealth spirit of goodwill and mutual support whereby all give and all gain,โ said the secretary-general.
The Right Honourable Scotland added โI thank the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis for such stalwart commitment to the Commonwealth and offer my warmest good wishes to all taking part in Diplomatic Week 2019.โ
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Aviationโs 2019 edition of Diplomatic Week commenced on Sunday, April 07 with a thanksgiving service at the Zion Moravian Church in Basseterre. The week ends on Friday, April 12.
Just last month (March), Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Aviation, Kaye Bass, said that Diplomatic Week is a period of time set about in the calendar โ every three years โ when diplomats are invited to St. Kitts and Nevis to be updated on the governmentโs priorities; what has been taking place; how they fit in in the governmentโs agenda, and how the government expects diplomats to express and safeguard its interest overseas. She added that it is an opportunity for the government to express to its representatives overseas that they are important to the government.
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Theย Rightย Honourable Patricia Scotland QC, Commonwealth Secretaryย -Genera