Havana, October 20 (RHC-acn) Heads of State and Government of country members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Agreement of Peoples (ALBA-TCP) arrived in Havana for a Special Summit to discuss issues regarding the struggle against Ebola.

Cuba Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez welcomed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, promoter of this initiative, at his arrival at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana.

Prime Ministers of Saint Lucia, Kenneth Anthony, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, as well as Earl Asim Martin, Deputy Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis arrived in Cuba on Sunday.

Other senior officials participating in the meeting are Rafael Ramirez, vice president of Government and Foreign Minister of Venezuela; Bernardo Alvarez, Executive Secretary of the ALBA-TCP, and David Nabarro, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in the fight against Ebola.

Delegations of Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, and the Commonwealth of Dominica also arrived in the Cuban capital on Sunday.

Carissa F. Etienne, Director General of the Pan American Health Organization, thanked ALBA-TCP on Saturday for this the Special Summit aimed at developing strategies to prevent and fight Ebola in the region.

Before the press corps covering the event, the distinguished visitors praised Cuba´s quick contribution to face the current greatest health emergency humanity is facing today.

A brigade of 165 Cuban health specialists is already working in Sierra Leone and Liberia.