Caribbean Report 26-05-1997

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Caribbean Report 26-05-1997

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dc.contributor The University of the West Indies en_US
dc.contributor.author Richards, Ken (anchor)
dc.contributor.author Clinton, Bill (interviewee)
dc.contributor.author Panday, Basdeo (interviewee)
dc.contributor.author Mitchell, James (interviewee)
dc.contributor.author Kinnock, Glenys (interviewee)
dc.contributor.author Wynn, Terry (interviewee)
dc.contributor.author Jessop, David (interviewee)
dc.contributor.author Myers, Gordon (interviewee)
dc.contributor.author Gibbons, Jim (correspondent)
dc.contributor.author Laurent, Edwin (interviewee)
dc.contributor.author Duflo, Dennis (interviewee)
dc.coverage.spatial Caribbean Area. en_US
dc.creator The British Broadcasting Corporation en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2014-01-17T13:25:13Z
dc.date.available 2014-01-17T13:25:13Z
dc.date.issued 1997-05-26
dc.identifier.other CAR2326 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2139/21564
dc.description.abstract A banana official from Guadeloupe comments on the importance of banana production to the country. However, these were the echoes across the islands when a fact finding mission of European MPs visited the Eastern Caribbean earlier this month. The Euro MPs meetings were fruitful as they were able to hear from the banana growers themselves who identified their problems. The mission coincided with the Barbados Summit between President Bill Clinton and Caricom Heads of Government. The matter of a WTO ruling against the EU’s banana import regime prompted by US featured at the Summit. However, President Bill Clinton did not give Caribbean leaders much hope over their banana concerns. President Clinton said that in pursuing the winning of our case at the World Trade Organisation our target was a discriminatory European system not the Caribbean nations. Trinidad and Tobago and St Vincent’s Prime Ministers commented on President Clinton’s speech. The EU would make an appeal against the WTO ruling. Next, Executive Director of the European Council for Europe, David Jessop and Gordon Myers, the European Representative of the Caribbean Bananas Exporters Association are interviewed on the banana issue with the World Trade Organisation. Next, in a debate in Strasburg, the Commissioner Franz Fischler says the Commission wants to investigate the implication of an appeal to the WTO ruling before taking further action. Finally, OECS Ambassador Edwin Laurent has the last word on ACP cooperation and the Caribbean stand on bananas. en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents 1. Headlines (00:00-00:20) en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents 2. The case to appeal a WTO ruling against the EU banana regime is the focus of today's programme. Dennis Duflo, Guadeloupe Banana Official, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Basdeo Panday, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Sir James Mitchell, President Bill Clinton, Euro-MPs Glenys Kinnock, Terry Wynn are interviewed (00:21-05:05) en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents 3. Executive Director of the European Council for Europe, David Jessop and Gordon Myers, the European representative of the Caribbean Bananas Exporters Association are interviewed(05:06-12:04) en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents 4. Commissioner Franz Fischler looks at the implications of an appeal to the WTO ruling. Tim Gibbons reports (12:05-14:27) en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents 5. OECS Ambassador Edwin Laurent has the last word on ACP cooperation and the Caribbean stance on bananas. Ambassador Edwin Laurent is interviewed (14:28-15:22) en_US
dc.format Stereo 192 bit rate MP3;44,100 Mega bits;16 bit en_US
dc.format.extent 15 min. 22 sec. en_US
dc.format.medium Sound, mp3 en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher The British Broadcasting Corporation en_US
dc.relation.ispartof The BBC Caribbean Archives Collection 1988 - 2011 en_US
dc.rights Copyright British Broadcasting Corporation en_US
dc.subject.other World Trade Organisation. en_US
dc.subject.other Banana trade -- European Union. en_US
dc.subject.other Fischler, Franz. en_US
dc.subject.other African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP). en_US
dc.subject.other Banana trade -- Caribbean Area.
dc.title Caribbean Report 26-05-1997 en_US
dc.type Recording, oral en_US
SpecialCollections.repository All sounds files in this collection are being kept at the Main Library, Mona Campus, Jamaica and The Alma Jordan Library, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. en_US
dc.rights.accessRights Access to this collection is available on site at the Main Library, Mona Campus (main.library@uwimona.edu.jm), Jamaica and The Alma Jordan Library (wimail@sta.uwi.edu), St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. en_US


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