The XXI Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) is meeting today in Havana.
The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, received the presidents, prime ministers and high-ranking leaders of Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia, who will participate in the official meeting.
Participants gathering at the Palace of the Revolution in the Cuban capital will analyze the regional situation and the group’s potential to work together, based on the capabilities and strengths of each nation, reported Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla.
ALBA-TCP, as is customary, holds a summit in the first half of the year and another in December. On this occasion, the meeting has acquired special significance since it is taking place just days before the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, from which three member states of ALBA-TCP - Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba – will apparently be excluded by the U.S. government which is hosting the event.
ALBA-TCP was established as a platform for the integration of Latin America and Caribbean countries, emphasizing solidarity, complementarity, justice and cooperation, with the fundamental historical purpose of uniting the capacities and strengths of its member countries, to favor heir comprehensive development as sovereign and just nations.
