INTERESTS
Caribbean Region
Caribbean
Britain Business Council
The
Caribbean-Britain Business Council (CBBC) is a not-for-profit membership
organisation which brings together over 100 companies and associations
with trade and investment interests in and from the Caribbean. The
aim of the Council is to support and promote increased two way trade
and investment between the UK and the Caribbean and raise a positive
profile of the Caribbean amongst the UK private sector and government.
The CBBC recognises that the private sector has an important long-term
role in delivering sustainable social and economic development in
the Caribbean.
Lord
Foulkes is President of the Caribbean Britain Business Council.
All
Party Parliamentary Group on the Dominican Republic
In
March 2006, the President of the Dominican Republic, Dr Leonel Fernández,
visited the UK on the first ever official visit to the country by
a Dominican Head of State. The All Party Parliamentary Group on
the Dominican Republic was inaugurated at the time of his visit.
The group is made up of Parliamentarians who are interested in promoting
closer relations between the UK and the Dominican Republic. An official
delegation of British MPs and Peers led by Lord Foulkes, visited
Santo Domingo in September 2006, and a delegation of Dominican Congressmen
and women has visited the British Parliament in June 2007.
Lord
Foulkes is President of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the
Dominican Republic.
The
Cuba Initiative
The
Cuba Initiative was founded in 1995 in response to a request from
the Governments of the United Kingdom and Cuba for an independent,
bi-lateral, non-governmental body able to support and develop programmes
that enhance the UK/Cuban relationship. As such, the work of the
Cuba Initiative complements the official UK/Cuban government-to-government
relationship. In addition to promoting trade and investment, the
Initiative facilitates and fosters exchange in the fields of politics,
government, trade, investment, science, sports, education and culture.
Lord
Foulkes is Deputy Chairman of the Cuba Initiative.
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