Philipsburg:--- The Prime Minister of St. Maarten Sarah Wescot Williams and Marcia de Castro, the resident Coordinator of UNDP Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curacao and St. Maarten signed a declaration of intent. The declaration of Intent was signed in the presence of the Council of Ministers who all participated in a meeting with the UNDP representative shortly after the signing.Prime Minister Wescot Williams told reports that the declaration of intent has three points which they intend to work on which are to develop strategies for nation building and national development through a participative approach; implementation of policies aimed towards reaching the Millennium Development Goal and the further implementation of the development information database (Dev-info) as a precise and sensitive tool to measure and benchmark Sint Maarten's social-economic development as well as the acquisition of funds.
Marcia de Castro in her introductory remarks said the UNDP started partnership with the former Netherlands Antilles some 25 years ago.
The last project spearheaded by the UNDP was signed off in 2009. The two objectives of that project were to assist the islands with the transition of country status and to produce a millennium development report which was launched this year.
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