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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
14th July 2004
The Trinidad and Tobago Cuba Solidarity has circulated the following extract from the Prensa Latina, which will be of interest to the media.
Havana Hosting Cuba-CARICOM Foreign Ministers Meeting
Havana, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Ministers from Cuba and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be meeting here on July 15, in an effort to bolster regional integration as the only viable alternative to build their own future.
Such issues as the strengthening of economic-commercial links and bilateral and multilateral cooperation, as well as the revision of common regional affairs will be privileged on the meeting’s agenda.
The coming meeting is a follow up to the First Cuba-CARICOM Summit, held on December 2000, to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Diplomatic relations between Havana and several Caribbean states.
CARICOM was founded in 1973, as stated in the Chaguaramas Treaty replacing the Caribbean Association of Free Trade (CARIFTA), established in 1968.
It is formed by Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Monserrat, St Kits and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands are associate members.
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