The Curaçao and Dutch governments are on the verge of signing an agreement which will release the third tranche of liquidity support. The last details are being filled in and early next week, possibly on Monday, the agreement should be signed in Willemstad.
Curaçao Prime Minister Eugene Rhuggenaath and Dutch State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Raymond Knops were very optimistic after Friday’s Kingdom Council of Ministers meeting.
“We had a very good meeting today. Curaçao has complied with the conditions of the second tranche. This makes it possible to comply with the third tranche. We are now putting the finishing touches to arrive at a final agreement. We have expressed the political commitment, and hopefully we can sign next week,” Rhuggenaath said.
“I am glad that we are standing here together,” said Knops about jointly addressing the media with Rhuggenaath after the Kingdom Council of Ministers meeting. “I see this as a milestone of a trajectory that we have gone through in the past months whereby we had very good and constructive talks,” said Knops.
“We are almost there. But at least we concluded today that Curaçao has complied with the conditions of the second tranche. We now have to proceed with the third tranche, but this is an important intermediate step. I want to thank the Curaçao government for its constructive input. This is in the interest of the people in Curaçao,” said Knops.
