(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba meet in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday 8 December, CARICOM-Cuba Day.
All independent Member States of the Community will be represented with ten at the level of Head of Government. The Cuban delegation will be led the President, His Excellency Raoul Castro Ruz.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)Long-standing relations between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Republic of Cuba have served to enhance the standard of living of citizens of both CARICOM and Cuba, and represent a celebration of true fraternity.
WE, the Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and of the Republic of Cuba (hereinafter collectively called the Parties), meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados, on 8 December 2005 on the occasion of the Second CARICOM-Cuba Summit;
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Republic of Cuba (hereinafter referred to as “the Parties”):
INSPIRED by the indestructible ties of friendship and brotherhood among the People of the Caribbean;
RECOGNISING the need for cooperation among the countries of the Caribbean Region in order to strengthen their socio-economic and political ties;
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The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Republic of Cuba (hereinafter referred to as “the Parties”):
INSPIRED by the indestructible ties of friendship and brotherhood among the People of the Caribbean; RECOGNISING the need for cooperation among the countries of the Caribbean Region in order to strengthen their socio-economic and political ties; |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community and Cuba meet in Bridgetown, Barbados, on 8 December for their second Summit meeting in three years.
This meeting is in consonance with the Havana Declaration which was signed at the first Summit in Havana in 2002, on the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the four CARICOM countries which were independent at that time - Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago - and Cuba.
It is with great pleasure that today, 8 December, we celebrate CARICOM-Cuba Day.
Thirty-one years ago, four Caribbean Community countries - Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago - opened this chapter in the Community’s history by establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba.