Two new countries in the world

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There are two new countries in the world





The globes were obsolete at midnight the day before the birth of two new countries in the Caribbean, after the islands of Curaçao and St. Maarten, with 190,000 and 50,000 inhabitants respectively, cease to belong to the now dissolved Netherlands Antilles, to become in the semi of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.


On the other hand, the three smaller islands that were also part of the late country and which together amount to less than 20,000 inhabitants, Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius, will become Dutch municipalities, and therefore outside the European Union (EU) .

The changes are the result of an agreement reached in September with the Dutch government, which remains responsible for defense and foreign policy of the new countries, and will start monitoring the finances of Curaçao under a debt relief pact.

Curaçao and St. Maarten and get the status of a country that had won the island of Aruba in 1986, maintaining direct ties with Holland.

The Netherlands Antilles were colonized in the seventeenth century the Netherlands and had existed as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1954. Recently, increasing tensions between its members because the allocation of income and debt.

Build a country from scratch. The BBC correspondent in The Hague, Geraldine Coughlan, said the deal was criticized by Dutch right-wing politicians, including anti-Muslim Geert Wilders, whose party support in Parliament to the new Dutch government.

"Wilders called for the islands were auctioned to the highest bidder," said Coughlan, "but the agreement between the new countries and the Netherlands has been included in the constitution and will not be easy to modify."

The birth of the two new countries was celebrated with a ceremony in Willemstad and Philipsburg, capitals respectively of Curacao and St. Martin, with the fall of the old red and blue flag of the Netherlands Antilles and the hoisting of their substitutes, witnessed by thousands of attendees.

Many details of the operation of the new countries will be determined in the coming weeks for their new leaders. On Sunday morning, parliamentarians and other government officials on the two islands were sworn.

The economy of both is largely dependent on tourism. Therefore, officials of that area in Curaçao, located 65 miles from Venezuela, said this measure would have more resources available to develop new port facilities and hotels and better position the island for the U.S. tourism market.

Meanwhile, the new leaders of San Martin, east of Puerto Rico, are aware of the great challenge that lies ahead. "We must build institutions crucial to the functioning of parliamentary democracy ... from scratch," said the flamboyant prime minister, Sarah Wescot-Williams.

"True, we are still part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and, yes, we are still governed by rules and agreements with other members, but the success of our fledgling country will depend on us."







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