Taiwan and the U.S. Sign Arrangement for Technical Cooperation in the Caribbean
On April 10, 2024, Taiwan Representative to the United States Amb. Alexander Tah-Ray Yui joined Managing Director Ingrid Larson of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) to sign the Arrangement for Technical Cooperation in the Caribbean, witnessed by Counselor Clinton White of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and related officials both from the U.S. Department of State and Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in the United States. U.S. Ambassador to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the OECS Roger F. Nyhus, USAID Special Representative to Eastern and Southern Caribbean Mervyn Farroe, Taiwan Ambassador to Saint Lucia Peter Chia-yen Chen, Ambassador to Saint Kitts and Nevis Michael Lin and Ambassador to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Fiona Huei-Chun Fan also witnessed the signing ceremony online.
In Amb. Yui’s remarks, he noted that today not only marks the signing of the Arrangement for Technical Cooperation in the Caribbean between TECRO and AIT but also the 45th anniversary of the enactment of the Taiwan Relations Act. The global partnership between Taiwan and the United States has grown stronger and wider in the past 45 years, especially with regard to international development. Taiwan is dedicated to leveraging our own strengths to boost our diplomatic allies’ capacities. With the strong partnership with USAID, we will be able to help our diplomatic allies develop prosperously and sustainably.
The Arrangement for Technical Agreement in the Caribbean is the implementation of the MOU on Development and Humanitarian Assistance Cooperation signed in November 2022. Under the arrangement, TaiwanICDF and USAID will establish closer working relations through regular exchange and sharing successful experience with each other in the fields of education, agriculture, climate change, disaster preparedness, citizen security, cybersecurity and digital development, and women’s economic empowerment, among others, to jointly provide sustainable development projects to the local communities.
