Cuba was elected yesterday as a full member, by acclamation, of the Commission on Social Development and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, both of the United Nations.
On Tuesday afternoon, took place the first coordination meeting for a future joint cooperation project between Saint Kitts and Nevis and Cuba, in the Construction sector. During the meeting, topics of common interest were reviewed, while were laid the foundations for the beginning of a project that will continue to strengthen and diversify the historical cooperative relations between these sister nations of the Caribbean
The ambassador of the Republic of Cuba, David Rivero Pérez, paid a courtesy call to the Speaker of the National Assembly of Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Honorable Lanein Blanchette, who was accompanied by Ms Trevlyn Stapleton, clerk of this Parliament and Mauriel Knight, deputy clerk. During the cordial meeting, held in the National Assembly Chambers at Government Headquarters, both parties congratulated themselves on the good state of bilateral relations and expressed the will to continue strengthening the ties between the respective Parliaments.
The ALBA-TCP member countries reaffirm our firm solidarity with the Cuban people and government, express our support for its legitimate denunciation against enemy campaigns, as well as our recognition of its tireless efforts to overcome all the difficulties resulting from the brutal and illegal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the government of the United States of America against Cuba, which since the Lester Mallory Memorandum has been causing hardships to the Cuban people in order to justify an external intervention.
On March 18, 2024, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Benjamin Ziff was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Deputy Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who formally conveyed to him the firm rejection of the interference and slanderous messages of the U.S. government and its embassy in Cuba regarding the internal affairs of the Cuban reality.