Army General Raúl Castro, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Republic, Heads of State and Government and representatives of the member countries and guests of ALBA-TCP attended a political and cultural event, this Saturday, on the steps of the University of Havana for the 15th anniversary of this regional political coordination mechanism.
Nicolás Maduro, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and David Choquehuanca, Executive Secretary of ALBA-TCP, also participated in the evening, which commemorated the foundation by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez of this mechanism of solidarity and political concertation, in whose debate sessions a declaration was approved that endorses its original principles.
In the ceremony, in addition to the tribute to the two revolutionary leaders who gave birth to the multilateral bloc, precisely in Havana on December 14, 2004, several dignitaries intervened to express the advances and challenges of ALBA-TCP in the current regional context. (Taken from Cuban News Agency)
