The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Rogelio Sierra Díaz, begins today a visit to Guyana as part of a tour of several Caribbean countries that began on June 5. The Cuban diplomat will be accompanied by the Director for Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jorge Luis Mayo Fernández.
Guyana is of particular importance to Cuba, as along with Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica, they established diplomatic relations with the island simultaneously on December 8, 1972.
As part of the programme to be held in Georgetown, Sierra Diaz will hold formal discussions at the Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the Director-General, Ambassador Audrey Jardine-Waddell, in which the two sides will exchange views on the state of bilateral relations and review bilateral cooperation. He will also be received by other Guyanese authorities and will meet with executives of the CARICOM General Secretariat, where the commitments made at the VI CARICOM-Cuba Summit held last December in Antigua and Barbuda will be reviewed.