The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) has an­nounced its full back­ing for An­tigua and Bar­bu­da and called for the US to co-op­er­ate with the ter­ri­to­ry in its ef­forts to se­cure com­pen­sa­tion.

In a com­mu­niqu� com­ing out of its 24th in­ter-ses­sion­al meet­ing, which con­clud­ed on Wednes­day, the re­gion­al bloc stat­ed: "The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty af­firms its full sup­port for An­tigua and Bar­bu­da in its fight to ob­tain Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca com­pli­ance with the rul­ing of the World Trade Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WTO) Dis­pute Set­tle­ment Body on the sub­ject of cross-bor­der pro­vi­sion of gam­bling and bet­ting ser­vices."

"The Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment calls on the US to set­tle the dis­pute with An­tigua and Bar­bu­da by ho­n­our­ing its oblig­a­tions to re­spect in­ter­na­tion­al rules and by com­ply­ing with the de­ci­sion of the WTO in this mat­ter.

Those rules ap­ply to all coun­tries whether small, large, rich or poor. All coun­tries must abide by their oblig­a­tions with­in the com­mu­ni­ty of na­tions in the WTO. The com­mu­ni­ty has stood with the US and the com­mu­ni­ty of na­tions to de­fend the im­per­a­tive of full com­pli­ance with in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­cept­ed norms and rules.

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