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from the British Virgin Islands in the north-eastern Caribbean through to Grenada in the south. ECONOMICS HISTORY
The momentousness of the admission of Martinique and Guadeloupe to the OECS was acknowledged by Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in his address as Chairman of the OECS Authority at the Special Meeting of the Authority, on 14 March 2019 in Guadeloupe, held on the occasion of Guadeloupe’s Accession to Associate Membership of the OECS. Dr. Gonsalves declared: “Centuries of European colonial rivalries in the Caribbean have contributed to the fracturing of our countries in differing linguistic groups and a contrived island separateness. Yet, within and arising from the rivalries, contradictions, and separations are the very seeds which predispose our territories to a greater and more perfect union, as the circumstances admit … The maturation of the OECS embraces practically the variable geometry of integration as made manifest in its welcoming of Martinique and Guadeloupe to associate membership”
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Notes 1. The British Virgin Islands and Anguilla have not yet signed the Revised Treaty of Basseterre.
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The West Indies Federation Referendum Norman Manley Eric Williams Associated State French Overseas Department
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