Bearing greetings from the Cuban people, and especially Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, to the sister people of Nicaragua and the Sandinista government, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez arrived in Managua, yesterday, to attend the VIII Summit if the Association of Caribbean States
Managua, Nicaragua.- Bearing greetings from the Cuban people, and especially Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, to the sister people of Nicaragua and the Sandinista government, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez arrived in Managua, yesterday, to attend the VIII Summit if the Association of Caribbean States.
He was received on the tarmac of Augusto C. Sandino International Airport, by government leaders Sidartha Marín, Presidential advisor for international affairs, and Minister of Defense Martha Elena Ruiz Sevilla.
Díaz-Canel commented to the press that Cuba was attending the event “to confirm our support to the revitalization of the Association of Caribbean States, and of course continue defending the conviction that it is an important space for reaching political consensus, dialogue, and communication among peoples of the Caribbean.
“We are in a country of friends,” he emphasized.
The Cuban delegation additionally includes Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla; Ileana Núñez Mordoche, deputy minister of Foreign Trade and Investment; Cuba’s ambassador in Nicaragua, Juan Carlos Hernández Padrón; and Tania Diego Olite, Cuban ambassador in Trinidad and Tobago and the ACS.
The Summit has as its timely maxim on this occasion: “Joining forces in the Caribbean to confront the consequences of climate change.”