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Accord signed at Round Table Conference
News item | 18-12-2008
The Netherlands and The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba have reached agreement on the new status for the islands.
At the Round Table Conference in Curaçao on the 15th of December Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, State secretary Bijleveld and Antillean Prime Minister De Jongh-Elhage signed an accord on the new status.
The islands of Curaçao and Sint Maarten will become autonomous territories, while Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius will become Dutch municipalities.
The last conditions of dissolution will be discussed and finalized in 2009.