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CARICOM-Cuba Day celebrated in Havana
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Representatives of Cuba and the member States of the Caribbean Community celebrated Monday the CARICOM-Cuba Day, on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties of that region with the largest of the Antilles.

Salvador Valdés Mesa, Vice President of the Republic of Cuba, presided over the act held at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, where Barbados business manager Philip St. Hill recalled the decision of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guyana and Jamaica to establish 1972 its relations with Havana and break the isolation that the United States intended to impose, according to the ACN.

Likewise, he thanked in the name of the independent nations of the Caribbean, grouped in CARICOM, the permanent support provided by Cuba, especially in the areas of health, education, agriculture, sports, and in dealing with natural disasters. On the Cuban side, Ana Teresita González Fraga, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, ratified the solidarity commitment with her neighbors, and affirmed that these ties will continue to be a priority of the Revolution’s foreign policy. The event was attended by representatives of the Cuban Party and Government, members of the Caribbean and Latin American diplomatic corps accredited in Cuba, and a representation of students from that region studying in the Antillean nation.

CARICOM is made up of 15 nations: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia (Country), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago It also has associate members: Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands.

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