Atg: Tackling drug trafficking

Antigua & Barbuda is to explore entering into an agreement on maritime co-operation with the Netherlands to combat drug trafficking within the Caribbean.

Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer disclosed this yesterday during a meeting with the Netherlands Ambassador to Antigua & Barbuda His Excellency Maarten Maria van der Gaag who is on his first official visit to the country.

The prime minister pledged the government's co-operation in anti-drug trafficking efforts and gave the assurance that the treaty establishing maritime co-operation with the Netherlands would be reviewed.

Ambassador van der Gaag also took the opportunity to commend Prime Minister Spencer as chairman of Caricom, for the moves being made towards integration and the position the grouping has taken on Haiti.