Raul Castro is in Bolivia to Attend Summit of 77 plus China

Eldonita de Alberto Chirino
2014-06-13 16:42:24

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Havana, June 13 (RHC) Cuban president Raul Castro arrived in Bolivia on Friday afternoon to participate at the Summit of the Group of 77 plus China, to take place June 14 and 15 in the city of Santa Cruz.
Raul Castro was the first Latin American head of state to arrive in the South American nation, where he was welcomed at the Viru Viru airport, in Santa Cruz, by Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca.
Other Latin American leaders expected to attend the forum include Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega and Salvador Sanchez Ceren, from El Salvador.
The Bolivian Foreign Ministry also announced the attendance of Uruguay’s Jose Mujica, Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez, Peru’s Ollanta Humala, Costa Rica’s Luis Guillermo Soliz and Paraguay’s Horacio Cartes.
Before the arrival of the Cuban president, the leaders of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and the Fiji Islands were already in Bolivia, according to PL news agency.
Over two dozen heads of state and delegations from a hundred nations are expected to attend the summit.
Bolivia has chaired the Group of 77 plus China since early this year and president Evo Morales called the Summit under the slogan “Towards a New World Order for Good Living.”
The Cuban delegation to the summit includes foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez, Foreign Trade and Investment minister Rodrigo Malmierca, and other officials from the Cuban Foreign Ministry.


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