Australian High Commissioner to Trinidad and the Eastern Caribbean, Mr Philip Kentwell (left); the Honourable Richard Marles, MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs (right); and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade for Barbados, Senator Maxine McClean.
Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Richard Marles,visited the Caribbean region last week, building on recent engagement at the Australia-CARICOM Foreign Ministers Meeting and the Commonwealth and Developing Small States Meeting held in the margins of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October last year.
“Australia’s warm relations with the Caribbean are largely based on shared historical, sporting, social and political ties, and membership of the Commonwealth and Australia is committed to building our relationship with the Caribbean,” said Mr Marles.
“Australia also has a lot of experience with small island developing states given our work in the Pacific and we look forward to sharing our ideas and experiences with small island states in the Caribbean, especially in areas where they are particularly vulnerable, such as climate change, “ Mr Marles said....
