RESOLUTIONS 03.02-05
ADOPTED BY THE 4th PETROCARIBE SUMMIT OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT. CIENFUEGOS, CUBA - December 21st, 2007

Resolutions No. 03.02-05

PREAMBLE

1. Acknowledging the creation of PETROCARIBE as an initiative of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, aimed at contributing to the economic and social development of the peoples through the sovereign use of energy resources and for the integration of Caribbean countries;

2. Highlighting the PETROCARIBE Energy Cooperation Agreement, signed at the 1st Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, on June 29th, 2005;

3. Reiterating the statutes of the Organization and the Secretariat for the positive development and functioning of PETROCARIBE;

4. Taking into consideration PETROCARIBE’S Energy Security Treaty (EST), which constitutes a comprehensive and sustained integration process developed to contribute to the Caribbean region’s energy security, and which was signed on August 11th, 2007.

The Heads of State and/or Government of PETROCARIBE member countries, in adherence to the PETROCARIBE Statutes signed in Montego Bay in September 2005, do hereby decide:

1. To incorporate the Republic of Honduras as a member country of the PETROCARIBE Organization, this country having fulfilled the requirements and expressed an interest in joining the Organization, acknowledging and accepting its statutes and resolutions.

Baldwin Spencer
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda

Owen Seymour Arthur
Primer Minister of Barbados

Said Musa
Prime Minister of Belice

Raúl Castro
First Vice-President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba

Roosvelt Skerrit
Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica

Leonel Fernández Reina
President of the Dominican Republic

Gregory Bowen
Vice-Prime Minister of Grenada

Samuel Hinds
Prime Minister of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana

René Preval
President of the Republic of Haiti

Bruce Golding
Prime Minister of Jamaica

Daniel Ortega
President of the Republic of Nicaragua

Earl Asim Martin
Minister of Energy of Saint Kitts & Nevis

Ralph Gonsalves
Prime Minister of Saint Vincent & the Grenadines

Mark Waaldijk
Director General of Staatsolie of the Republic of Suriname

Hugo Chávez Frías
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela