Ministers Ready CARICOM-Cuba Summit
Luis Enrique Gonzalez, Special Correspondent
Bridgetown, Dec 7 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are in a working session in Barbados to finish final documents of the II Regional Summit with Cuba.
Ministers will prepare the Barbados Declaration and pronouncement project for higher cooperation of the 15 member countries with Cuba.
Their work paves the way for heads of state to adopt decisions for strengthening economic-commercial links in health, culture, education and sports, as well as in agriculture and environment for future collaboration.
The Second Cuba-CARICOM Summit aims at analyzing the development of commitments assumed last year and monitoring conventions of Havana 2002, the first bilateral summit.
According to Prensa Latina, member countries will declare against terrorism, especially regarding authors of the terrorist attack on a Cuban plane with 73 people on board on October 6, 1976, and will lay wreaths at the victims´ monument.
Dignitaries will have in-depth work sessions before signing the final documents and define the host country for the III Summit in three years, in line with agreements of the first edition.
The Caribbean bloc is composed of Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Santa Lucia, San Kitts y Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname plus Trinidad and Tobago.