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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
First chief negotiator and director general of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), Sir Shridath Ramphal, has cautioned the Caribbean region not to "rush into signing" the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), warning that it could turn "into a nightmare . In fact, Sir Shridath, who is also a leading architect of the establishment of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group, appealed to the CARIFORUM countries to put the signing of the EPA on hold until after the October 2-3 ACP summit in Accra, Ghana. The EPA is up for discussion on its agenda. The former long-serving Chancellor of the University of the West Indies stressed that "the best available technical assessment" of the CARIFORUM-EU agreement, "will, in its present form, probably lead to the eventual abandonment of the CSME (Caribbean Single Market and Economy) project..."
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