Speech by the Vice-President of the Republic of Cuba, Salvador Valdés Mesa, at the general debate of the IV Conference of Small Island Developing States. Antigua and Barbuda, May 27th to 30th.
President,
Your Excellences,
Distinguished delegates and guests,
I am honoured to attend this historic gathering, on the soil of the sister Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, to which we are bound by enduring ties of friendship.
Since the adoption ten years ago of the Samoa Pathway, new and greater challenges have emerged.