Saint Lucia – United States relations

Saint Lucia	United States

Saint Lucia – United States relations arebilateral relations betweenSaint Lucia and theUnited States.Roger F. Nyhus is theU.S. Ambassador to St. Lucia.

The United States supports the St. Lucian government's efforts to expand its economic base. The Government of St. Lucia has cooperated with the United States on security concerns. U.S. assistance is primarily channeled through multilateral agencies, such as theWorld Bank, and theUSAID office inBridgetown,Barbados. ThePeace Corps, whose Eastern Caribbean regional headquarters is located in St. Lucia, has 22 volunteers in St. Lucia, working primarily in business development, education, and health. U.S. security assistance programs provide limited training to the paramilitary Special Services Unit and theCoast Guard. In addition, St. Lucia receives U.S. counter-narcotics assistance and benefits from U.S. military exercises and humanitarian civic action construction projects.

St. Lucia and the United States share interest in combating international crime and narcotics trafficking. St. Lucia is an appealing transit point for traffickers because of its location. The two governments have concluded various bilateral treaties, including amaritime law enforcement agreement (subsequently amended to include overflight and order-to-land provisions), amutual legal assistance treaty, and anextradition treaty.

More Americans visit St. Lucia than any other national group. In 2005, tourist visitors totaled over 700,000, mainly from the United States, theUnited Kingdom, andCARICOM.Cruise ship arrivals in 2005 were down by 18% over 2004, while the number of stay-over visitors increased slightly in the same period.

• Saint Lucia has an embassy inWashington, D.C..^[1]
• United States is accredited to Saint Lucia from its embassy inBridgetown,Barbados.^[2]

• North American Union
• North American Free Trade Agreement
• Free Trade Area of the Americas
• Third Border Initiative
• Caribbean Community
• Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)
• Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act
• Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative
• Foreign relations of Saint Lucia
• Foreign relations of the United States

 This article incorporatespublic domain material fromU.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets.United States Department of State.

• History of Saint Lucia - U.S. relations
• The United States Department of State - Saint Lucia

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• Bilateral relations of Saint Lucia
• Bilateral relations of the United States

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