Kingston, Jamaica, 22 August 2019. The Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to Jamaica, H.E Mrs. Inés Fors Fernández, held a fruitful exchange with the Undersecretary for Bilateral, Regional and Hemispheric Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, Ambassador Alison Stone-Roofe, today at the Ministry’s premises.
The Cuban diplomat gave her Jamaican colleague a summary of Cuba’s Report on Resolution 73/8 of the United Nations General Assembly entitled “Need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba” and informed her of the main political-diplomatic actions under way to gain the overwhelming support of the international community for the Resolution of Condemnation of the Blockade, this year at the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
At the meeting, the Ambassador of Cuba recalled that for ten consecutive years the Parliament of Jamaica has passed resolutions demanding the lifting of the blockade against Cuba. Likewise she thanked the firm stance of Jamaica and the rest of the CARICOM member states against the Helms Burton Act and in favour of the lifting of the US blockade, revealed during the 22nd Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations held in St. George, Granada, on 13 and 14 May, 2019, and at the 6th Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of CARICOM and Cuba, held in Georgetown, Guyana, on 14 June.
When reviewing the main issues of the bilateral agenda, both diplomats acknowledged the good state of relations, the satisfactory development of cooperation in health and education and the promising opportunities for increasing and extending it to other sectors.