This morning, the Cuban Ambassador to this Federation David Rivero Pérez, received on a courtesy visit Gayle Gray-Phillip, Head of the Open Campus of Unversity of the West Indies in Saint Kitts and Nevis, located in Basseterre.
As part of the community activities carried out by the Association of Graduates in Cuba, this Saturday a group of graduates of Cuban universities met on the island of Nevis, accompanied by the Ambassador of the island, David Rivero Pérez, to deliver food aid and hygiene products to ten socially disadvantaged families.
Following up on the meeting held between the Ambassador of Cuba David Rivero and the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Climate Action of this Federation, Dr. Joyelle Clarke, a second working meeting took place, this time with the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Sharon Rattan.
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On 27 February 2023, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, summoned the United States Chargé D’Affaires, Benjamin Ziff, to the Ministry, to formally convey Cuba’s vigorous protest at the granting of political asylum to the Cuban citizen Rubén Martínez Machado, perpetrator of the hijacking of a Cuban civil aircraft on 21 October 2022.
The Biden administration released the Country Reports on Terrorism and continues Cuba's designation as a “state sponsor of terrorism”. The real purpose of slandering Cuba as a “terrorist” is to justify the illegal US blockade on Cuba.
With Cuba’s SSOT designation, the US. attempts to criminalize normalizing relations with Cuba, exacerbating the already devastating impacts of sanctions.
On Monday morning, Dr. Ladislao Taquechel Lescaille, president of the Association of Cuban Residents in this Federation, was received at the Cuban Embassy in St Kitts and Nevis. He was given preliminary information about the VI Regional Meeting of Cuban Residents in Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held next June in Venezuela.
We received members of the Young Labour executive at our diplomatic headquarters, with whom we had a pleasant and fruitful exchange. This organization, which constitutes the youth arm of the Labour Party of this Federation, was represented during the meeting by Rasheem Hopkins, Tanessa Charles, Kashema Gumbs and Alaric Arache, who were updated by Ambassador David Rivero on some topics of interest such as the economic situation in Cuba and the impact of the blockade imposed by the United States.
A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) led by Vu Trong Lam, deputy editor-in-chief of the Communist Review, paid a working visit to Cuba from February 9 to February 14. Between February 10 and February 12 the delegation participated in the first international meeting of political ideological magazines and newspapers of political parties, left-wing and progressive movements in Havana.
The Honourable Minister Konris Maynard, in charge of the portfolios of Public Infrastructure and Utilities, Transport, Information, Communication and Technology and Post, met this morning with the ambassador of Cuba to Saint Kitts and Nevis, David Rivero Pérez, on a work visit. During the meeting, both parties highlighted the good state of the historical links that unite their countries and the willingness to continue strengthening them. In this sense, possible new avenues of Cuban cooperation were evaluated.
