The Cuban Ambassador, Vilma Reyes Valdespino, was received in audience by Sir Louis Straker, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Regional Integration of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
During the meeting, the parties discussed issues related to bilateral relations, especially cooperation, collaboration of the two countries within the framework of regional and universal organizations and the participation of San Vicente in events to be held in Cuba, during the next months.
Sir Louis Straker, praised the generous and effective assistance that Cuba provides their country in many areas and reaffirmed the invariable position of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines against the blockade imposed by the US the Greater Antilles, while insisting on the need to return to Cuba the territory illegally occupied by the Guantanamo Naval Base.