

Ambassador Paolo Serpi, on Thursday July 19th presented his letters of Credence to Saint Lucia’s Governor General Her Excellency Dame Pearlette Louisy.
According to the new diplomat, “there is still room to further develop the relations between our two states; increasing our bilateral relation on tourism, environmental protection and sustainable industry, which certainly prove extremely usable and favorable for both countries.”
Over the years, the Government of Italy has worked with the European Union to champion the cause of countries like Saint Lucia by supporting significant projects. “As far as international development cooperation is concerned, we also stress the active role played by Italy in favor of Saint Lucia by financing important projects managed by the UN agencies, by CARICOM, Cariforum and the European Union as they enhance resilience to reduce vulnerability in the Caribbean projects, the Youth projects and many others.”
“Your Excellency, I refer to the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Italy and the CARICOM countries which aims at strengthening political, scientific and technical relationships and at promoting development co-operation partnership between the two parties. Saint Lucia and it’s sister countries in the region stand to benefit considerably from this partnership, and we want to place on record our deepest appreciation for this very timely initiative which would see us develop capacity in areas vital to the development or our economies in the fields of trade negotiation and trade promotion, for example, and in the scientific and technical fields.”
Saint Lucia has already confirmed participation in the universal expedition to take place in Milan in 2015.



