"I believe that this visit will mark a milestone in the relations between Trinidad and Tobago and Cuba." This is how the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, valued yesterday the presence in the largest of the Antilles of a delegation from the sister Caribbean island.
The meeting took place at the Palace of the Revolution, where he welcomed the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Bridgid Annisette-George, who is making an official visit to Cuba.
"It is a pleasure, it is an enormous satisfaction to receive you," said Díaz-Canel Bermúdez to the distinguished visitor, adding that "we find this visit of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago, a Caribbean country with which we have excellent relations, very important. We treat each other as brothers in the Caribbean."
The Head of State highlighted the historical relations, based on respect, friendship and solidarity. He emphasized that the close relationship between both nations, "has a fundamental basis in the exchange of projects, ideas, common positions between our governments; and that is why we give particular importance to this visit."
The President reaffirmed the importance of parliamentary relations between our countries, "because they are a fundamental component to support the efforts of our governments, to advance together in the projects, in our common positions in international forums."
He ratified to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, that Cuba maintains its commitments set out in the most recent Cuba-Caricom Summit, in which the largest of the Antilles proposed a group of projects to work jointly.
Bridgid Annisette-George assured "how honored we are, both myself and the members of my delegation, to be in Cuba and to have received such a warm welcome."
Regarding the intense agenda, she commented that its content "expresses your intention to share with us all that you are doing and are going to do in Cuba."
She stressed that "this official visit of the parliamentary delegation is a demonstration of our intention to exploit different possibilities of joint cooperation."
Present at the dialogue were, among other officials, the vice-president of the National Assembly of People's Power, Ana María Mari Machado, as well as Eugenio Martínez Enríquez, general director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
