MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela.- Cuba reiterates its willingness to continue providing its modest experience in collaborative projects with Caribbean countries, said the Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment of the Island, Ileana Núñez Mordoche.
As reported by Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra, the statements of the official occurred during the II Cooperation Conference of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), in Isla Margarita, Venezuela. According to Sierra, the event also highlighted the role of the Greater Antilles in strengthening the ACS and more active cooperation among the nations of the region. At the inauguration of the meeting, with an agenda focused on the process of regional integration that was extended until Friday, the Venezuelan Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Caribbean Area, Raúl Licausi, informed that the 70 or more participants of the conference will discuss different projects to unite their territories by air and sea. In this regard, he stressed on the importance of the meeting to promote regional collaboration and achieve a positive impact on the future of nations in the face of climate change and in the preservation of sandy shorelines and coral reefs.
He indicated that Venezuela made its technology available to the Association of Caribbean States through the Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities, as an essential element in disaster reduction.
For its part the Secretary General of the ACS, June Soomer, stressed that what presides is “a flexible cooperation agency, For 23 years we have advanced towards new goals and challenges, such as climate change, and we will continue to build new projects for regional development.” “The ACS is going to define an action plan for the period 2019-2021, which contemplates the success of the past to define a better future”, she said while calling for refining efforts towards cooperation and coordination, “since it is no longer enough to do it well but necessary to make it exceptional.”