After the placement of a wreath in the capital park that remembers those leaders, Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa ratified his gratitude for that gesture, initiated in 1972 by Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica, in the face of the attempts of the United States. United to isolate this island.
He affirmed that the brotherhood ties of his nation with the countries of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) are expressed in various areas and were manifested with special significance with the dispatch of more than two thousand Cuban health specialists to 19 Caribbean countries and territories. , as well as donations received from the region in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He also reiterated his gratitude for the historic support against the United States blockade, and reaffirmed Cuba’s will to consolidate ties with its Caribbean brothers.
On behalf of the Caribbean diplomatic corps accredited in Havana, the Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda, Maurice George Goodwin, thanked Cuba for its collaboration in areas such as education, health, agriculture, sports, engineering, water resources and the confrontation with climate change.
Goodwin described the bonds of brotherhood and cooperation built over almost five decades as unbreakable and expressed the shared will to strengthen them.
This Thursday, President Miguel Díaz-Canel reaffirmed on Twitter his commitment to solidarity and integration with the Caribbean Community, when celebrating Caricom-Cuba Day, and reiterated his willingness to consolidate them.
Founded in 1973, Caricom is made up of Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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