The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, will make an official visit to Cuba next Sunday. belizethe first of a Cuban president to the country.
As reported by Government of Belize In a statement, the program will include a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister John Briceño. Two agreements will also be signed.
During the visit, a special session of the National Assembly of Belize will be held with the participation of Díaz-Canel.
The official note highlights that this visit will be the first by a Cuban president to Belize. He has not yet communicated about it from Havana.
Last December, Díaz-Canel also starred in the first visit by a Cuban president to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a country that, like Belize, is a member of the Caribbean Community (Caricom).
During the visit, the president praised Caricom for its support to end the economic embargo that the United States has maintained for decades against Cuba.
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On those dates, Díaz-Canel also participated in the eighth summit between Caricom and Cuba, held in Barbados, where the leaders of the Caribbean countries demanded the “immediate cessation” of the economic embargo.
Caricom is made up of Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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