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The Association of Caribbean States (ACS; Spanish: Asociación de Estados del Caribe; French: Association des États de la Caraïbe) is an advisory association of nations centered on the Caribbean Basin. [2] It was formed with the aim of promoting consultation, cooperation, and concerted action among all the countries of the Caribbean coastal area.
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean. In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense. This ...
Commonwealth of Nations, fifty-six member states that are mostly Dominions or former territories of the British Empire. Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC): regional bloc of Latin American and Caribbean states; Community of Portuguese Language Countries
Country Formal Relations Began Notes Belize 4 February 1983: Antigua & Barbuda and Belize are two of fifteen commonwealth realms, members of: the Association of Caribbean States, the Caribbean Community, the Caribbean Development Bank, the Commonwealth of Nations, ECLAC, EU-CARIFORUM, the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, the Organization of American States, and the United ...
In 1965, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago established the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA).Following independence from the United Kingdom in 1966, Barbados went on to become a founding member of many other international organizations.
A map of all Caricom countries and associate members. A member state of the Caribbean Community is a state that has been specified as a member state within the Treaty of Chaguaramas or any other Caribbean state that is in the opinion of the Conference, able and willing to exercise the rights and assume the obligations of membership in accordance with article 29 of the Treaty of Chaguaramas.
West Indies Associated States was the collective name for a number of islands in the Eastern Caribbean whose status changed from being British colonies to states in free association with the United Kingdom in 1967. These states were Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent.
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) [a] is a bloc of Latin American and Caribbean states, consisting of 33 countries, and has five official working languages. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is seen as an alternative to the Organization of American States (OAS), and includes all OAS member states (except the United States and Canada ...