THE HAGUE--The Kingdom Conference in The Hague on December 14 is strictly an affair of the governments of the four countries in the Kingdom. The Parliaments will not be invited.
Dutch Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Piet Hein Donner stated this in a letter that he sent to the First and Second Chamber on Monday. The letter was accompanied by the conference's draft agenda.
The Minister has taken the wish of the four Parliaments to add two agenda points to the Kingdom Conference into account. However, the agenda point to research the possibilities of connecting Aruba, Bonaire and Cura�ao to a joint gas line has been cancelled.
Donner explained that Cura�ao and Aruba had not been aware of the desire of the four Parliaments to put a joint gas line on the agenda, and neither was the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation EL&I. The Parliaments had formulated this agenda point during the last Inter-Parliamentary Consultation in June this year.
The other subject that the Parliaments wanted to be discussed at the Kingdom Conference was foreign affairs, specifically to strengthen the role of the Dutch Caribbean in South America and the Caribbean region where it comes to foreign policy.
The role of the Dutch Caribbean in foreign affairs will be discussed at the Kingdom Conference under the agenda point that deals with the updating of the Foreign Policy of the Dutch Caribbean memo of Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Uri Rosenthal.
Also on the draft agenda is the further development of a vision on the Kingdom; the identification and recognition of the interest of the countries in the Kingdom and the question how the countries can cooperate.
Two sub-agenda points were included on the request of the Cura�ao Government: the possibility of stipulating an end date for the Kingdom Consensus Laws and the option to amend articles 58, 59 and 60 of the Kingdom Charter. These articles regulate the option for Aruba to step out of the Charter and by extension the Kingdom.
Other subjects on the draft agenda include: the arbitration regulation, the setting up of a Kingdom Secretariat, the movement of persons and goods within the Kingdom and the date and location of the 2012 Kingdom Conference.
At the end of the conference, parties will sign the conclusions and a declaration to realise a cooperation agreement in the area of education between the countries in 2012. Work groups will be installed in relation to the Cooperation protocol between the Netherlands and Aruba.
At the start of the conference the delegation leaders will give opening remarks. Cura�ao and St. Maarten are expected to give an update on current developments in relation to the new constitutional status.
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