St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas discussed local, regional and international security issues on Monday with Commander of the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), General Douglas Fraser ahead of a Caribbean Nations Security Conference 2012 (CANSEC).
Fraser and Commander of the St Kitts-Nevis Defence Force, Lt Colonel Patrick Wallace, paid a courtesy call on Douglas, who was due to deliver the feature address at the December 12-14 conference.
The three-day conference, which is co-hosted by USSOUTHCOM)and the St Kitts-Nevis Defence Force, is an annual executive level conference that affords regional military chiefs and the combatant commander of SOUTHCOM, a forum to discuss US military support to regional information sharing.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Regional Information Sharing; to Counter Transnational Organized Crime (C-TOC) and assist Foreign Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HA/DR).”
The meeting is attended by military chiefs of those CARICOM member states with military forces; those countries without military forces are represented by their commissioners of police.
Also attending are the interim director of CARICOM IMPACS, the Co-ordinator of the Regional Security and observers from other regional organisations.
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