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THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                        (Little Rock, Arkansas)
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For Immediate Release                                     August 6, 1999

                  U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY FOR THE AMERICAS, 
               MR. KENNETH H. "BUDDY" MACKAY, JR., VISITS 
      COUNTRIES OF THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

President Clinton's Special Envoy for the Americas, Kenneth H. "Buddy" MacKay, Jr., will travel to Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua, and the Dominican Republic from August 8-13, where he will meet with government and private sector leaders in the region.

In describing his upcoming trip Governor MacKay said, "We must continue to work towards promoting regional economic cooperation. This process will lead us to a more economically viable hemisphere and will spur economic integration as we approach the next millennium. Our economic cooperation with Caribbean States and our passage of comprehensive Caribbean Basin Enhancement legislation will move the hemisphere closer to that goal."

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