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The Council for Foreign and Community Relations
(COFCOR)
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1. The Council for Foreign and Community Relations shall consist of
Ministers Responsible for the Foreign Affairs of Member States. Each
Member State shall be entitled to designate an alternate to represent
it on COFCOR..
2. Subject to the provisions of Article 12 (Functions and Powers of
the Conference) of the Revised Treaty establishing the Caribbean Community
including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, COFCOR shall be responsible
for determining relations between the Community and international organisations
and Third States.
3. Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 2, COFCOR shall:
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(a) promote the development and oversee
the operation of the CSME;
(b) evaluate, promote and establish measures to enhance production, quality
control and marketing of industrial and agricultural commodities so as
to ensure their international competitiveness;
(c) establish and promote measures to accelerate structural diversification
of industrial and agricultural production on a sustainable and regionally-integrated
basis;
(d) determine and promote measures for the accelerated development and
marketing of services;
(e) promote and develop policies and programmes to facilitate the transportation
of people and goods;
(f) promote measures for the development of energy and natural resources
on a sustainable basis;
(g) establish and promote measures for the accelerated development of
science and technology;
(h) promote and develop policies for the protection of and preservation
of the environment and for sustainable development;
(i) promote and develop, in collaboration with the Council for Foreign
and Community Relations, co-ordinated policies for the enhancement of
external economic and trade relations of the Community, and
(j) undertake any additional functions remitted to it by the Conference,
arising under this Treaty.
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4. Only Member States possessing the necessary competence with respect
to the matters under consideration from time to time may take part
in the deliberations of COFCOR.
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