UNEP CAR/RCU signs Memorandum of Cooperation with OECS

At the recently concluded Meeting of Ministers of Environment the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) held in Anguilla on November 16^th, 2005, Mr. Christopher Corbin, Programme Officer responsible for the Assessment and Management of Environment Pollution (AMEP) of UNEP CAR/RCU and Dr. Vasantha Chase, Director of the Sustainable Development of OECS signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on behalf of their respective agencies.    Through this MOC, CAR/RCU and the Secretariat of the OECS agree to co-ordinate and harmonise activities in pursuit of complementary interests and goals of the member countries of the OECS and the Parties to the Cartagena Convention, in order to improve implementation of and minimize duplication of programmes, projects and activities relevant to both organizations at the national, sub-regional and regional levels.

Dr. Vasantha Chase of OECS (left) and Christopher Corbin of UNEP-CAR/RCU at the signing of MoC between their organizations