The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs commemorated today, with the cancellation of a postage stamp, the 50th anniversary of relations with the first four independent States of the Caribbean Community (Caricom).
On Twitter, the general director of Latin America and the Caribbean of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Eugenio Martínez Enríquez, reported that the ceremony took place at the headquarters of that ministry, with the participation of the first deputy minister, Gerardo Peñalver.
The cancellation of the postage stamp celebrates that on December 8, 1972, the leaders of Jamaica (Michael Manley), Trinidad and Tobago (Eric Williams), Guyana (Forbes Burnham), and Barbados (Errol Barrow) established relations with Havana, favoring the end of the diplomatic isolation of the Cuban Revolution in the Western Hemisphere.
The following year, Caricom was created, which has maintained strong ties with Cuba and, as proof of this, all its member states have representation, at the level of their own diplomatic missions, the only Latin American country where this occurs.
Since 2002, the summits of heads of State and Government of the Caricom-Cuba mechanism have been held every three years, with alternate venues between Havana and the States of the Community.
This December 6, in Barbados, the VIII Caricom-Cuba Summit took place, with the participation of a high-level Cuban delegation, headed by the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel .
The Bridgetown Declaration, adopted at the meeting, expressed the common will to strengthen the relationship, as well as the commitment to search for creative solutions, always for the benefit of the peoples.
The Cuban head of State highlighted the mutual will to continue the projects in which both parties are already working, and incorporate new actions to expand and diversify ties, based on mutual solidarity and collaboration.