As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al (Ag.) of Cari­com, Dr Wen­dell Samuel, has called for ac­tion to ad­dress the im­pact of the Mid­dle East con­flict on the Caribbean.

Dr Samuel made the state­ment dur­ing a vir­tu­al di­a­logue on April 10 host­ed by the Food and Agri­cul­ture Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Unit­ed Na­tions. The dis­cus­sion ex­am­ined ef­fects on Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean, with fo­cus on food se­cu­ri­ty, agri­cul­ture and macro­eco­nom­ic sta­bil­i­ty.

Dr Samuel said CARI­COM has de­vel­oped a draft re­sponse ma­trix to ad­dress fall­out from the con­flict. He said the ma­trix will be pre­sent­ed to re­gion­al Min­is­ters of Agri­cul­ture for con­sid­er­a­tion, adop­tion and im­ple­men­ta­tion.