On 3 and 4 June, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Foradori, participated in the 7th Summit of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) in the city of Havana, Cuba.
The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) is a regional consultation, negotiation and cooperation mechanism of the Caribbean States, created in 1994. Its priority fields of work are trade, transportation, sustainable tourism and natural catastrophes. The forum comprises twenty-five countries of the Caribbean and Central America. Argentina has been an Observer to ACS since 1996 and has been actively participating in its annual meetings in recent years, with a view to strengthening the presence of our country in the region of the Caribbean and Central America, and contributing to the promotion of the items on the bilateral and regional agendas that are of interest.
On this occasion, Deputy Foreign Minister Foradori met with Hugo Martinez Bonilla, Foreign Minister of El Salvador; Carl Greenidge, Foreign MInister of Guyana; and Dennis Moses, Foreign Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He also met with the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Honduras, Maria Andrea Matamoros; Barbados, Cecil Humphrey; and Saint Lucia, Sir Vaugham Lewis, as well as the heads of the Delegations of Nicaragua and Jamaica, in order to address common interest topics on the bilateral agenda and strengthen bilateral relations.
In a context of cordiality and understanding, Mr Foradori expressed the interest of Argentina in increasing cooperation, while offering support to fulfil goals aimed at the comprehensive improvement of economic, social and political relations.
Finally, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Argentina met the President of El Salvador, Salvador Sanchez Ceren; the President of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales Cabrera, and the Deputy Foreign Minister of Cuba, Marcelino Medina Gonzalez, in order to do a follow-up of mutually beneficial affairs between the countries.
Press Release No. 171/16
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