Díaz-Canel arrived at the “Simón Bolívar” Maiquetía International Airport in La Guaira, Republic of Venezuela.
Caracas, April 24 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived in Venezuela Wednesday morning to participate in the XXIII Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), to be held today in Caracas.
The head of state of the island was welcomed at the Simón Bolívar international airport in Maiquetía by Foreign Minister Iván Gil, the executive secretary of ALBA-TCP, Jorge Arreaza, and Havana's ambassador to Venezuela, Dagoberto Rodríguez, among others.
Díaz-Canel traveled accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez and Josefina Vidal, deputy foreign minister and national coordinator of the ALBA-TCP, among other directors and officials.
Díaz-Canel's arrival was preceded by that of the prime ministers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Antigua and Barbudas, Ralph Gonsalves and Gaston Browne, respectively, and of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit. The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, also arrived this Wednesday in the early hours of the morning.
Gil wrote on the social network X that in this meeting “we will work together to strengthen regional unity and cooperation between our countries.”
The XXIII Summit of Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP was announced last week by the executive secretary during the celebration of the Meeting for a World Social Alternative, which was attended by 300 delegates from 60 countries.
The meeting provides for the discussion and approval of the 2030 Strategic Agenda, announced by Arreaza to the delegates of the Meeting for a Global Social Alternative, which has five horizons: economic, political, social, cultural and communicational.
The meeting is held in the context of the International Day of Multilateralism and Peace Diplomacy, in order to reaffirm the values of multilateral diplomacy and highlight the role played by the integration bloc in promoting peace, stability and development in the region.
The ALBA-TCP emerged on December 14, 2014 at the initiative of commanders Fidel Castro (1926-2016) and Hugo Chávez (1954-2013) and is made up of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada and Saint Lucia. (Source: Prensa Latina)
