The 5th CARICOM Ministerial Meeting - Cuba began this Saturday at the Hotel Habana Libre, with the objective of consolidating ties and strengthening the role of the mechanism as a platform for political dialogue, consultation and cooperation among the nations of the area.
The Greater Caribbean is a well-defined geographic space, with a strategic position between North and South of Our America, with a common history, where small islands tighten intense cultural ties and cooperation.
The States that make up the Caribbean Basin have always remained among Cuba's main trading partners, they reached out to us when others tried to isolate us. The Greater Antilles do not forget it, and for that reason, the region is today one of the main areas of collaboration that the Cuban nation offers in the world.
We, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Republic of Cuba, meeting in Havana, Cuba, on March 11, 2017, on the occasion of the Fifth CARICOM-Cuba Ministerial Meeting, and in commemoration of the Forty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the independent CARICOM States and Cuba and the Fifteenth Anniversary of Cuba-CARICOM Day; Reaffirming the Declarations of the Summits of Havana 2002, Bridgetown 2005, Santiago de Cuba 2008, Port of Spain 2011 and Havana 2014, and highlighting its contribution to the advancement of
Speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla at the opening of the V CARICOM-Cuba Ministerial Meeting. Havana Cuba. March 11, 2017. Deputy Chairman of the Council of State, Salvador Valdés Mesa;
