SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Dec 8 (acn) Cuban President Raul Castro officially opened the 3rd Cuba-CARICOM Summit on Monday morning at the Hotel Santiago in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
The meeting is taking place with the participation of the heads of state and government from the 15 member countries of the regional bloc and representatives from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), who will analyze joint projects and ways to increase cooperation as well as actions to face the current international financial crisis and recession, among other aspects.
The opening session of the event includes speeches by Raul Castro and also by Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and pro-tempore president of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM; and Edwin Spencer, General Secretary of this bloc.
CARICOM is comprised of the independent states of Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, and Trinidad & Tobago.
Also part of the bloc is Montserrat while the Virgin Islands is an associated state. Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Venezuela, Aruba, Colombia, the Ditch Antilles, Bermudas, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are observers.
At the end of the meeting, participants will approve the Declaration of Santiago de Cuba as the final document of the event and also a Special Declaration on the Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development scheduled for Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, on December 16-17.
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