Minister of Plenipotentiary Hon. Mathias Voges on Monday met with Project Coordinator and Manager of the International Office of the City of Amsterdam Arnold van den Broek, to discuss the cooperation agreement between the aforementioned city and Sint Maarten.
The agreement was for the period 2007-2010. During the meeting at the Cabinet of the Minister of Plenipotentiary in The Hague, Voges and Van den Broek discussed the evaluation of the aforementioned cooperation agreement.
The possibility of renewing the cooperation between the City and country Sint Maarten was also a point of discussion since the agreement ceased to exist as of October 10, 2010.
Minister Voges will draft a report on the meeting and forward it to the Prime Minister. The Minister told the Department of Communication (DCOMM) in order to have a new agreement between the city of Amsterdam and Sint Maarten, the different ministries would need to review what areas of cooperation they would like to see developed.
Van den Broek is familiar with the island since he worked as legal advisor in the Cabinet of the Lt. Governor several years ago.
Also attending the meeting was Director of the Minister’s Cabinet Cornelius James.