Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to­day joined re­gion­al lead­ers in Nas­sau, The Ba­hamas for the fi­nal day of the 44th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment, dur­ing which they en­gaged vir­tu­al­ly with Pres­i­dent of Ukraine Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy, a state­ment by the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter said.

It said that dur­ing his ad­dress to lead­ers, Pres­i­dent Ze­len­skyy urged CARI­COM na­tions to use their votes at the Unit­ed Na­tions to sup­port Ukraine.

He said, "I thank you for be­ing on the side of the law. I thank you for your ef­forts to bring sta­bil­i­ty to your re­gion and the world. But re­al sta­bil­i­ty is pos­si­ble on­ly when we all to­geth­er pro­tect the world from state thug­gery.

So, I en­cour­age you to fur­ther co­op­er­a­tion.

Next week we will present at the UN Gen­er­al As­sem­bly a res­o­lu­tion on a com­pre­hen­sive, just, and sus­tain­able peace in Ukraine, and hence the restora­tion of the full force of the in­ter­na­tion­al rules-based or­der. Your votes mat­ter."

Dur­ing the morn­ing ple­nary, up­dates were al­so re­ceived on the Bridgetown Ini­tia­tive for the Re­form of the Glob­al Fi­nan­cial Ar­chi­tec­ture and Cli­mate Change/Cli­mate Fi­nance.

Dr Row­ley al­so signed two Cari­com agree­ments, name­ly the Pro­to­col to Amend Ar­ti­cle 32 of the Re­vised Treaty and the Pro­to­col for En­hanced Co­op­er­a­tion.

Both agree­ments will al­low for among oth­er things fur­ther im­ple­men­ta­tion of the CARI­COM Sin­gle Mar­ket and Econ­o­my.

Dr Row­ley en­gaged in bi­lat­er­al dis­cus­sions with Moon-Kyu Bang, Min­is­ter of Of­fice for Gov­ern­ment Pol­i­cy and Co­or­di­na­tion of the Re­pub­lic of Ko­rea.

The meet­ing fo­cused on iden­ti­fy­ing ar­eas for en­hanced co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the two coun­tries specif­i­cal­ly in the ar­eas of ed­u­ca­tion and train­ing, mar­itime and sus­tain­able en­er­gy.

His Ex­cel­len­cy Dongil Oh, Am­bas­sador of the Re­pub­lic of Ko­rea to the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go as well as Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs, Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne and the Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young were present at the bi­lat­er­al meet­ing.