CubaMinrex. Sitio del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba

Foreign Ministries of Panama and Cuba hold talks

In the framework of the official visit paid to our country by H.E. Mr. Álvaro Alemán Healy, Deputy Foreign Minister of Panama, the 3rd Cuba-Panama Meeting of the Political Consultation Mechanism was held in the morning of May 19th, 2011.
During the meeting– which was presided over on the Cuba side by Rogelio Sierra Díaz, Deputy Foreign Minister-  both high-ranking officials expressed satisfaction at the good state of bilateral links and renewed the willingness of their respective nations to develop and deepen the diplomatic, economic, commercial and cooperation bonds between the peoples and governments of Panama and Cuba.

H.E. Mr. Álvaro Alemán Healy underlined the importance of holding this Political Consultation Meeting as a mechanism of permanent dialogue between the Foreign Ministries of both countries.

On the other hand, the Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister acknowledged the potentials currently existing to diversify and expand the bonds between our two nations. Likewise, he extended appreciation to his counterpart for Panama’s traditional support to the struggle of the Cuban people against the unjust, economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States for nearly 50 years.

This was also an auspicious meeting for both Deputy Foreign  Ministers to dialogue on other matters of interest of both the regional and international agendas.

The distinguished guess was accompanied by H.E. Mr. Luis Carlos Cleghorn Palomino, Ambassador of Panama to Cuba; Mr. Alfredo Castillero Hoyos, Director General for Foreign Policy; Mr. Roberto Jované, Head of the Western Hemisphere Department; Mr. Elías Vargas, Head of the Treaty Department and Mr. Otto Escartin, Lawyer of the General Division of Legal Matters and Treaties of the Foreign Ministry of that country. 

The Cuban side was composed of Mrs. Marielena Ruiz Capote, Director of the Latin America and the Caribbean Division and other officials of the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

The signing ceremony of the minutes of the meeting between both countries’ foreign ministries took place in the afternoon, which ratified the issues debated during the meeting and set the course to be followed by the relations until the holding of next year’s round of political consultations. (Cubaminrex)