ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC -Dominica is hosting the filth session of the French Dominican Joint Security Commission with delegates, including Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit discussing issues ranging from immigration to training and judicial cooperation.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security and Legal Affairs, Joanne Commodore, said the meeting will further Dominica’s cooperation with the French on critical national security matters.
“The last meeting was held in 2016, and obviously, we could not continue because, you know, we had (Hurricane) Maria, COVID, etc., but we are back on track.
“It is basically to strengthen our mutual legal agreements in areas of training and cooperation because we need to come up with deals on sites like extradition<’s he said regarding the one-day meeting.
“I think based on the commitments we made at the last meeting in 2016, it is important for us to solidify these going forward and to concretize what we intend to do,” she said, noting that “irregular migration is something that is plaguing the region now and it came up in the last OECS Immigration Ministers meeting we had here.
“So the idea of illegal or irregular immigration is something that has been plaguing our country and …as technology advances, so does criminality, and we need to discuss what kind of technology we can exchange, what kind of sharing methods we can come up with and how our border professionals correspondent with each other better,” Commodore said.
The French delegation includes Xavier Lefort, Prefect of Guadeloupe; Francis Etienne, Ambassador of France to Dominica; Eric Maurel, the Attorney General of Guadeloupe and General Vincent Lamballe, Commander of the French Gendarmerie in Guadeloupe; General William Vaquette, Commander of the French Gendarmerie in Martinique.
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