Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel’s official talks with authorities of Barbados and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on Tuesday strengthened the relations with the Caribbean region.
Díaz-Canel began his official visits to this region on Saturday, December 3, including Grenada and his participation in the 8th CARICOM-Cuba Summit, marking the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Havana and several nations in the area.
In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the first stop of his tour, the Cuban president held meetings with Governor-General Susan Dougan and Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. Later, he was received in the Parliament of that archipelago.
In all scenarios, Díaz-Canel ratified Cuba’s will to strengthen solidarity and cooperation with those islands state with which it shares historical ties and future challenges.
On Monday, Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and President Sandra Mason, to whom he reassured the willingness to continue strengthening political dialogue and strengthening cooperation relations, received the Cuban head of State.
A Barbadian exporting company and the Business Group of the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries of Cuba (BioCubaFarma) signed a memorandum of understanding at the end of the official talks.
This Tuesday, Díaz-Canel heads the Cuban delegation to the 8th CARICOM-Cuba Summit, which celebrates its 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Havana and four nations of the region, which broke, with their attitude, the US attempt to isolate the Cuban Revolution internationally. These four nations are Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.
CARICOM emerged in 1973 and held its first summit with Cuba in 2002 to celebrate 30 years of diplomatic ties between Havana and these Caribbean nations.
Full members of this multilateral mechanism include Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
A total of 1,698 Cuban Public Health collaborators provide their services in 13 CARICOM countries and one non-independent territory. (https://www.plenglish.com/news/2022/12/06/cuban-presidents-tour-strengthens-relations-with-caribbean-region/)
