Havana, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) A representative of the International Marine Organization (IMO) highlighted here today the celebration of the 18th Meeting of the Memorandum of Understanding of the Caribbean Control of Ships in session here with the presence of 12 countries.

The meeting up to Thursday, July 25 in the National Hotel of Cuba will allow the assistants to share the development of security and protection of the marine environment in their countries, told Trinitarian Colin Young, IMO regional coordinator to the press.

Also, Young added, the appointment will propitiate that the participants – after they return to their countries – can develop a program of actions that contribute to solve those problems coming out from the debate that is carried out at closed doors.

In this topic, Young specified that the role of IMO in these meetings is the one of bringing the new structures that are being developed at world level, so that they can be updated in correspondence with the new programs of the regional organizations.

Concerning the debate, Young said that their organization has requested not only the shipping sector, but to the public in general, its points of view of how the organization works and the way it can improve the traffic development of the international marine sector.

During their statements to the press, the authority eulogized the importance that the government of Cuba gives to the protection of the marine vehicles and security.

“The selection of this island as the venue of this important meeting is a sample of the role of this nation in the execution of the international marine agreements,” Young pointed out

The Caribbean Memorandum of Understanding (CMOU) was signed in Christchurch, Barbados, on February 9 1996 by nine national marine authorities: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Dutch Antilles, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.

Up to now, the CMOU is composed by 15 marine authorities, and representatives of the International Marine Organization, International Labour Organization, US Coast Guard, Lloyds Register Fairplay and the MOU Paris are observers.

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