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Ingezonden | New board Corps Consulaire, new opportunities

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Uw ingezonden brief in de Knipselkrant Curacao? Stuur uw brief voor 17:00 uur naar emailadres: INGEZONDEN. Wij publiceren uw brief zonder deze in te korten. De redactie van de Knipselkrant Curacao is niet verantwoordelijk voor de inhoud. Ingezonden stukken die beledigende of discriminerende taal bevatten worden door ons niet gepubliceerd.

Vandaag laten we Alex Rosaria aan het woord

Congratulations! The Curacao Corps Consulaire has a new board consisting of Dean mr. Karel Frielink (Honorary Consul of Germany) and members ms. Margaret Hawthorne (Honorary Consul of the USA), mr. Ivan Moreno jr. (Honorary Consul of Belgium), mr. Paul van de Laarschot (Honorary Consul of Hungary) and mr. Paul Pradin (Honorary Consul of France).

According to the latest press release of the Curaqao Corps Consulaire, 33 countries are currently accredìted via a (honorary) consulate or mission on our island. This figure may not impress many people as there are 195 recognized countries in the world. But it quickly becomes daunting when we realize that the official 33 accredìted missions in Curacao represent about half of the world population, 3.500 million souls.

Thìs is something that we should definitively not underestimate. Dean Karel Frielink gave a good and strong introductory statement in whìch he emphasized the importance of our Foreign Office in Willemstad to be equipped with the ne- cessary manpower to do the job. I would have added to this phrase: “higth qualified manpower”. We cannot afford to repeat the diplomatie blunders since 2010. First and foremost, we need people who have what it takes to give (political) guidance to foreign affairs.

Dean Karel Frielink gave a good and strong introductory statement in whìch he emphasized the importance of our Foreign Office in Willemstad to be equipped with the ne- cessary manpower to do the job. I would have added to this phrase: “higth qualified manpower”.

We cannot afford to repeat the diplomatie blunders since 2010. First and foremost, we need people who have what it takes to give (political) guidance to foreign affairs. In my view, the importance of foreign relations lies in good cooperation among countries in order to have a safer, a more prosper world and to be good world citizens. And to achieve these, there is an important and active role to be played by the Curacao Corps Consulaire.

When I was member of the UN diplomatie corps, we had regular meetings with other foreign missions as well as representatives of local Governments. The latter is clearly not the case in Curacao. This needs to change. In my view the Curacao Corps Consulaire needs to engage some of these areas in the coming period. Diplomacy as a tool for good good governance, human rights, inclusion, climate change, more economie opportunities and amplifying of our own foreign networks.

Foreign relations have changed in ways our forefathers have never anticipated in 1954. We must be bold in order to rack up the gains from the new opportunities out there. Let’s do it together.

ALEX ROSARIA,
Curacao

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