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For these 18 years of solidarity integration, for Fidel and Chávez, for the founding fathers of Latin America, let us work for a more united ALBA, of solidarity and dignity," called on Tuesday the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, at the closing of the Sixth Extraordinary Session of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP in Spanish), in its 9th Legislature, which commemorated the 18th anniversary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP).
The plenary session, which was attended by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, was attended by the presidents of Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, Nicolás Maduro, Luis Arce and Daniel Ortega, respectively; and by the Prime Ministers Roosevelt Skerrit of Dominica, Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Dickon Mitchell of Grenada. Government representatives from St. Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda also attended.
In an afternoon described as "historic for the Cuban Parliament" by ANPP President Esteban Lazo Hernández, the speeches of several ALBA-TCP leaders were unanimous in condemning the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba, and in thanking the largest of the Antilles for its solidarity with their nations.
The call for the necessary integration within the region to face common challenges and continue strengthening the Alliance, which, it was said, will continue to be a vanguard force in Latin America, stood out. Photo: José M. Correa
Translated by ESTI
