WILLEMSTAD - On Thursday, June 24, 2021, Prime Minister Gilmar Pisas virtually participated in the Extraordinary Ministerial Conference of the Overseas Countries & Territories Association (OCTA).
The Extraordinary Ministerial Conference was held to formalize the relationship between OCTA, the organization for the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), and the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA), the organization for the British Overseas Territories.
Thanks in part to Brexit, the British Overseas Territories are no longer an OCT since February 2020, and they can no longer be a member of OCTA. Given the opportunities to collaborate on various themes such as climate change, oceans and energy, OCTA and UKOTA today signed an MoU.
In his intervention, Prime Minister Pisas indicated that he supports this cooperation, especially given the relations with several British OCTs such as Anguilla, Cayman Islands and Bermuda, in the region.