Cuba to participate in a Pacific Islands’s leaders meeting

Havana, Nov 6.- Cuba will participate in the 52nd Meeting of Leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum, which will take place from November 6 to 10, in the Cook Islands.

The event will address the implementation of the Pacific Blue Continent Strategy 2050 which aims to promote Pacific regionalism over the next three decades, articulating the key long-term vision, values ??and priorities in the South Pacific region.

The Cuban delegation will be composed of the Vice Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, Adianez Taboada, the director of Asia and Oceania of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ariel Lorenzo Rodríguez, and the ambassador of Cuba in New Zealand, concurrent in the Cook Islands, Edgardo Valdes.

According to the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the agenda of the event will also include climate confrontation, an area in which the largest of the Antilles and the Pacific Islands have ample possibilities for cooperation, given their common condition as small island states and the challenge of developing. in an unjust and unequal world.

Since 2010, Cuba has attended all meetings of the Pacific Islands Forum and since 2013 the Caribbean country has participated in the event as a Dialogue Partner of the organization, as a sign of the recognition of the small island states of the South Pacific towards the active Cuban work in improving its health services and the training of human resources.

It is expected that the island's representatives will participate in the work panels assigned to the Dialogue Partners and hold bilateral meetings with the member countries of the Forum. (Text and photo: PL)