Note prepared for a Caricom Secretariat a  Forum on the EPA, Georgetown, January 11, 2008

• Our international (trade/economic/political) negotiations need to be informed in advance of a clear vision of what it is we want to get out of these arrangements, for the short and longer term.

• We should avoid accepting templates (such as draft agreements, working-papers, and non-papers) offered by our negotiating counterparts. The very conceptualization and   structures of these templates mask in-built substantive pre-commitments that we cannot assume are always in our interest. 

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