Last Updated on September 20, 2021, 7:24 AM AST by Renaldo St Juste
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) members nation should focus on finding solutions to the various problems that the region is facing. Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt urged the member nation during the address.
While addressing the 6th summit of Heads of State and Government of (CELAC), PM Skerrit on Saturday said that Cuba in many spheres of COVID-19 pandemic had provided essential helps to the countries in the region. In this period of the COVID-19 outbreak, the countries would have experienced more severe effects if Cuba was not there. Most of the countries of the region had Cuban doctors and nurses working in the hospitals along with the Cuban technicians and had done each and every attempt that they could do to keep people alive who were severely infected with the COVID-19 virus.
PM Skerrit said, “We also want to thank the heroic people of Venezuela, who, in all of their challenges with the sanctions, have been able to reach out to us with PPEs (personal protective equipment) and testing kits when many of us in the Caribbean were running very low or were unable to access those testing kits and PPEs because they were blocked in other parts of the world.”
PM Skerrit acknowledged the efforts of Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in strengthening CELAC. Identifying the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, unemployment, poverty and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals as being among the challenges confronting nations in the 33-member regional bloc,
PM Skerrit added, “CELAC should redirect energies to solving these problems. I believe that among us in Latin America and the Caribbean, we can find solutions to these problems because we have the capacity, the Dominican leader said. We have been through struggles before. Our forefathers fought for independence, and we now must fight for the independence of our own societies and the independence for our own people by empowering them with the tools to survive as independent people.”
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