Cuba issues stamp to mark 50th anniversary of Cuba-CARICOM ties

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 12 (ACN) The Cuban foreign ministry commemorated today, with the issuing of a postage stamp, the 50th anniversary of the relations with the first four independent states of the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM).

On Twitter, the general director of Latin America and the Caribbean of the Cuban foreign ministry, Eugenio Martinez Enriquez, reported that the ceremony took place at the headquarters of that ministry, with the participation of the first deputy minister, Gerardo Peñalver.

The issuing of the postal stamp celebrates that on December 8, 1972, the leaders of Jamaica (Michael Manley), Trinidad and Tobago (Eric Williams), Guyana (Forbes Burnham), and Barbados (Errol Barrow) established relations with Havana, favoring the end of the diplomatic isolation of the Cuban Revolution in the Western Hemisphere.

Since 2002, the Summits of Heads of State and Government of the CARICOM-Cuba mechanism have been held every three years, with venues alternating between Havana and the States of the Community.

On December 6, the 8th CARICOM-Cuba Summit took place in Barbados, with the participation of a high-level Cuban delegation headed by the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel.

The Bridgetown Declaration, adopted at the meeting, expressed the common will to strengthen the relationship, as well as the commitment to seek creative solutions, always for the benefit of the nations.