CARIFORUM

This article is about the international organisation. For the Malaysian internet forum, see Cari Internet.

The Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) is a subgroup of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States and serves as a base for economic dialogue with the European Union. It was established in 1992. Its membership comprises the 15 Caribbean Community states, along with the Dominican Republic.^[1] In 2008, they signed an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union, though Guyana and Haiti had expressed reservations and did not attend the signing ceremony.^[2] Tensions within the group have grown over issues of trade and immigration; the Dominican Republic, with the group's largest economy, has expressed reservations over its current structure.^[1]

References

1 2 "CARIFORUM could be unravelling", Caribbean360, 2011-04-11, retrieved 2011-07-08
↑ Singh, Rickey (2008-10-16), "CARIFORUM signs EPA without Guyana, Haiti", The Jamaica Observer, retrieved 2011-07-08

Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

Secretariat (Secretary-General)

Members	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas¹ Barbados Belize Dominica Grenada Guyana Haiti¹ Jamaica Montserrat² St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago

Associate members	Anguilla Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Turks and Caicos Islands

Observers	Aruba Colombia Curaçao Dominican Republic Mexico Puerto Rico Sint Maarten Venezuela

Institutions	Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) Court of Justice (CCJ) Disaster Emergency Management (CDEMA) Examinations Council (CXC) Meteorological Institute (CMI) Meteorological Organisation (CMO) Public Health Agency (CARPHA) Single Market and Economy (CSME)

Related organizations	CARIFORUM Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)

¹ Member of the Community but not of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) ² British overseas territory awaiting entrustment to join the CSME

Caribbean articles

History

Timeline	Taíno–Arawak Spanish Caribbean (1492–1898) Dutch Caribbean (1554–1863) British Caribbean (1586–1834) French Caribbean (1625–1817) Baltic-German Caribbean (1654-1689) Danish Caribbean (1672–1917) German Caribbean (1685-1693) Swedish Caribbean (1784–1878)

By topic	Afro-Caribbean Territorial evolution

Geography

Regions	Antilles Greater Antilles Lesser Antilles Leeward Leeward Antilles Windward Caribbean Basin Caribbean Lowlands Caribbean Plate Caribbean Sea Caribbean South America Southern Caribbean

By topic	Bioregion Extreme points Islands by area Metropolitan areas Mountains Rivers Ultras sovereign states dependent territories

Politics

Economy

Culture

Demographics

Immigration
Languages
Population
Diseases
Religion

Category
Portal
WikiProject

Foreign relations of the European Union

Bilateral relations

Africa & the Middle East	Bahrain Cape Verde Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Lebanon Morocco Palestine† South Africa Syria Yemen

Americas	Argentina Brazil Canada Cuba Greenland Mexico United States

Asia-Pacific	Australia China (People's Republic of) India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Nepal North Korea Pakistan Philippines South Korea

Europe & Central Asia	Albania Andorra Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Faroe Islands Georgia Iceland Kazakhstan Kosovo† Liechtenstein Macedonia‡ Moldova Monaco Montenegro Northern Cyprus (Turkish Republic of)† Norway Russia San Marino Serbia Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Vatican City

General	Members’ overseas territories Largest trading partners Association agreements Free trade agreements

†= Disputed state, may not be recognised as an independent state by some or all European Union members. ‡= Name disputed by Greece, EU recognises the Republic of Macedonia as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Multilateral relations and initiatives

Organisations	Arab League ASEAN ECHR G8 ICC United Nations

Initiatives	African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Asia–Europe Meeting CARIFORUM Customs Union Eastern Partnership Energy Community Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly European Common Aviation Area European Economic Area Euro-Mediterranean free trade area Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Euronest Economic Partnership Agreements EU CBRN Risk Mitigation CoE Initiative Neighbourhood Policy Northern Dimension Mediterranean Union Stabilisation and Association Process

Organisation

Policy	Common Foreign and Security Policy Economic Relations Everything but Arms Security and Defence Policy Enlargement

Actors	ECHO EuropeAid External Action Service Foreign Affairs Council High Representative Catherine Ashton Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Foreign Policy Instruments Service

Diplomatic missions	of the EU / to the EU Ambassadors Special Representatives

Military and security

Initiatives	Defence Initiative Synchronised Armed Forces Defence Procurement Petersberg tasks Helsinki Headline Goal

Structures	Political and Security Committee Military Committee Military Staff Operations Centre Security & Defence College Defence Agency Institute for Security Studies Satellite Centre Joint Situation Centre

Forces	European Union Force Eurofor Eurocorps EU Battlegroup EU Gendarmerie Force EU Maritime Force Deployments

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CARIFORUM

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