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Business conference
regarding Kingdom relations

HER royal highness Princess Laurantien will be a tion (MCF), an organization that establishes dialogue D66 leader Alexander Pechtold will also address the
between children, young people, private and public company during the gala dinner.
keynote speaker at a business conference regarding organizations. Finally, Inter Expo will organize a debate on the politi-
Kingdom relations between the Caribbean and Latin cal development since 10:10:10 on the BES islands on
America This will encourage decision makers to take the long- Friday, September 25th. Jeroen Recourt, Chairman of
“Sustainable business between Dutch Kingdom, the term effects of their decisions into account and include the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Kingdom
Caribbean and Latin America.” That is the title of these in their policies. Apart from the Netherlands, Relations will lead this debate.
the 20th trade mission of Inter Expo and Tanja Fine. MCF is also active in Curaçao with the project Coun- The central themes will be: what is there to say on
Entrepreneurs, politicians, financial experts and rep- cil of Children; where schools and companies work the position of the Bes islands in the Kingdom after 5
resentatives of civil society organizations are given together to give children a voice in matters that affect years? What local administrators think about this and
two days to meet and exchange ideas with each other their future. The Board of Children will start in Aruba what do relevant parliamentarians experience?
in Amsterdam. too this autumn and strives too soon start on the other The full program of the Trade Mission can be found
The trade mission will take place on September 23 and islands as well. here: http://www.interexpo.
24 in the InterContinental Amstel Hotel. Prior to the
official part a boat tour will be made by the Amsterdam Education
canals, this tour is offered by the city of Amsterdam.
This tour gives guests from the Caribbean region the Following the keynote, development and education of
opportunity to get to know the capital from the water young people have a special place at this conference.
and there is room for them to have their first informal So Paul Comenencia, chairman of weConnect Founda-
contacts. tion, will give a presentation about the kingdom-wide
activities of this foundation. WeConnect and Missing
Program Chapter Foundation relate to each other when it
comes to encouraging young talent; under request of
Among the more than twenty speakers include: Ma- the trade mission they focus on the Tomorrow’s CEOs
norma Soeknandan, Assistant Secretary General of question of what they can already do in elucidating
CARICOM trade organization. The European Invest- current strategic issues.
ment Bank (EIB) is represented by their vice-president
Pim van Ballekom.

All the way from Barbados the president of the Carib-
bean Development Bank, Warren Smith, will be giv-
ing a presentation. Neighbor Island St. Lucia will be
represented by Joanne Charles, president of Caribbean
Association of Banks. A delegation of the Chamber of
Commerce of St. Eustatius and Saba and Bonaire are
focused on making the attendees eager to invest on
their islands.

UNESCO will also be present at this event and will be
represented by Andrée van Es, president of the Nation-
al UNESCO Commission of the Netherlands. They will
discuss co-operation in UNESCO on Kingdom level.

Participation by young people in the
Kingdom

The celebration of 200 years of Kingdom will officially
conclude in Amsterdam on September 26. The Inter
Expo trade mission adds to this event by planning its
congress in the days leading up to the festive event
around the event.

Furthermore, Her Royal Highness, Princess Laurentien
van Oranje, will act as keynote speaker at the gala
dinner of the trade mission on 23 September. She is a
founder and director of the Missing Chapter Founda-

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