NAIROBI, Kenya — Barbados and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have taken another step in their relations in Africa with the official opening of a diplomatic mission in Kenya, The Barbados NationNews reported on Thursday, June 23.
Barbados’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Senator The Most Honourable Jerome Walcottt yesterday officially opened the CARICOM diplomatic mission in Nairobi, Kenya, marking the first of its kind for Barbados on the continent.
According to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, while speaking at CARICOM’s new offices in the South Tower of the Two Rivers Office Complex, Walcott said this event marked a major milestone in relations between Barbados and Africa.
“The commissioning of this mission here in Kenya, the first diplomatic mission of Barbados to be commissioned on the African continent, is a testament of Barbados’ outreach to the motherland and cradle of civilisation, where many of our ancestors were born,” Walcott said.
The minister said Barbados is pursuing new relationships and partners in Africa “with the aim of deepening engagement and cooperation with like-minded nations both bilaterally and multilaterally”. See complete article in Barbados NationNews at https://www.nationnews.com/2022/06/22/barbados-caricom-open-diplomatic-mission-kenya/
