Speech by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, at the Sixth CARICOM-Cuba Summit, Antigua and Barbuda. Honorable Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda; Honorable Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Granada and President of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom); Honorable Prime Ministers and Presidents of the other member countries of Caricom; His Excellency Ambassador Irwin Larocque, Secretary General of Caricom; His Excellency Mr.
We, the Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community and the Republic of Cuba, meeting in St. Mary’s, Antigua and Barbuda, on 8 December 2017, on the occasion of the Sixth CARICOM-Cuba Summit and in commemoration of the forty-fifth anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations among the independent states of CARICOM and Cuba and the fifteenth anniversary of CARICOM-Cuba Day.
The Vice President of the Republic of The Gambia, Mrs. Fatoumata Jallow Tambajang, received Cuban Ambassador Lazaro Herrera Martínez at the Government House, with whom she held a fraternal meeting.
The occasion allowed a fruitful exchange during which the two parties expressed interest in strengthening friendship and extending the collaboration to other areas, beyond the medical assistance that the island has offered to the African country for more than two decades.