As part of the Caribbean trip, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez arrives in Barbados after his visit to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, where he will attend the VIII Caricom Cuba Summit tomorrow, Tuesday.
Díaz-Canel at the headquarters of the Parliament of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel visits the Parliament of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Photo: Presidency
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez was received this Monday at the seat of Parliament in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to attend a special session in his honor. The news is published by the website of the Presidency of the Republic on its Twitter account.
The President arrived in Kingstown last Saturday and in the afternoon of the same day spoke with Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on issues such as the Caribbean and Latin American position on Havana’s exclusion from the last Americas Summit held in the United States. Joined.
During the meeting, Díaz-Canel thanked the region for its support of the resolution against the US economic, trade and financial blockade, which the island puts forward each year at the United Nations General Assembly.
According to the Cuban President, this demonstrates a bilateral relationship through formality, serious, deep and brotherly, and he saw this visit as a way to appreciate the basis of this bond, which is based on the friendship between Gonsalves and Cuba’s leading historian, Fidel Castro.
The Head of State reiterated his willingness to strengthen ties with the Caribbean region, pointing to the tourism, food production, human resources training, infrastructure and construction, health and medical sectors among the numerous joint cooperation activities.
For his part, Gonsalves classified the tour as symbolic because it strengthens ties between peoples and governments and international solidarity, confirming the willingness to move forward on specific issues of common interest and ratifying the historic support that the island has given to the Caribbean.