CELAC Summit to adopt a Special Declaration on Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The IV CELAC Summit Meeting recently held in Quito, Ecuador, approved several relevant documents to our nations. In addition to the substantial and comprehensive Final Declaration, this time it was adopted a Special Declaration on the commitment to advance in multilateral negotiations on Nuclear Disarmament. Its first point was precisely to consolidate Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, as it was proclaimed at the II Summit held in Havana in January 2014. The text of the Declaration is attached.
Cuban and Barbadian to celebrate the 48th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
The 47thAnniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the 163rd Birth´s Anniversary of José Martí, National Hero, were held at the headquarters of the Clement Payne Chamber in a crowded political and cultural activity in which the Cuban Embassy and the Association of Cuban Residents "Martyrs of Barbados" shared with Barbadian friends from various social sectors an excellent evening, which political party had as featured speakers the President of the Barbados-Cuba Association of Friendship, David Denny, the President of the Clement Payne Movement, David Comissiong, and the Cuban Ambassador to Barb
Caribbean Broadcasting Union to hold its 2016 Annual Conference in Cuba.
The General Secretary of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU), Sonia Gill, announced during a working meeting with representatives of the Barbadian Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Cuban Embassy that its 47th Annual General Assembly will be made this year in Havana, Cuba, under a collaboration agreement with the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT).
Foreign ministries of Cuba and Barbados exchange on CARICOM and the ACS.
Foreign Ministry representatives of both countries meet to discuss issues of common interest for the next chairmanship of the Association of Caribbean States (AEC) which will be occupied by Cuba in the period 2016-2017. To this end, the Director of the Caricom-Caribbean Unit, Rodney Taylor, Ambassador of Barbados to Caricom, Robert Morris, and the official Mandisa Downes, received the Cuban Ambassador Francisco Fernández Peña.
UNFPA proposes to Cuba triangular cooperation with the Eastern Caribbean
In a meeting with Mrs. De-Jane Gibbons, Assistant Representative of the Agency of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for the Caribbean, Cuban Ambassador to Barbados, Francisco Fernandez, expressed approval of his government to evaluate various triangular cooperation projects for the benefit of other Eastern Caribbean nations in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, early pregnancy and related, for which Cuba would bring their experiences and experts in the coming year 2016.