Caracas, April 24, 2024.- On the occasion of the 23rd Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), the People’s Power Minister for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, welcomed the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel; the President of Bolivia, Luis Arce; the Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit; the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Philip J. Pierre; and the Foreign Minister of Grenada, Joseph Andall, this Wednesday, April 24, at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía.

During the reception, the Foreign Minister was with the ALBA-TCP Executive Secretary, Jorge Arreaza, and the Deputy Minister for Latin America and his counterpart in the Caribbean, Rander Peña y Raúl Li Causi, who welcomed the international authorities.

The representatives of Cuba, Bolivia, Dominica, Saint Lucia and Grenada, will participate on April 24 in the 23rd ALBA-TCP Summit, in order to reaffirm the commitment of the organization to the peoples, promoting the importance of brotherhood, solidarity, cooperation and complementarity.

The last Summit of Alliance was held in 2022, in Havana, Cuba, where was agreed:

•  Reaffirm the commitment to strengthen ALBA-TCP as an instrument of union of our peoples, based on the principles of solidarity, social justice, cooperation and economic complementarity, resulting from the political will of its founders, Commanders Fidel Castro Ruz and Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías.

• Highlight the need to strengthen the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) as a genuine dialogue and political coordination mechanism gathering the 33 States of Our America, based on the principle of unity in diversity.
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• Vindicate the national dignity of our peoples, and the liberation ideology of the national heroes and founding fathers of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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• Reject the destabilizing plans and actions fueled by powerful external factors and national oligarchies that have managed or are attempting to disregard the will of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples, which has been democratically and legitimately expressed at the polls.

People’s Power Ministry for Foreign Affairs