Cuba Will Attend Caribbean Security Conference For First Time

Cuba Will Attend Caribbean Security Conference For First Time / 14ymedio
Posted on January 18, 2016

14ymedio (with information from agencies), Havana, 13 January 2016 –
Cuba will participate for the first time in the Conference on Security
of Caribbean Nations to be held from January 27 in Jamaica, announced
Gen. John Kelly, head of the United States Southern Command, who
interpreted the gesture as one more in the policy of rapprochement
between the two nations.

"We have normalized diplomatic relations and, regardless of what we
think about our respective political systems, we have extremely common
challenges," Kelly said in an interview.

The United States organized this three-day event, which will address
issues affecting cooperation in the fight against trafficking in drugs,
arms and migrants.

The event will take place in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica's, and
attendees are expected to include military leaders and security
officials from 16 Caribbean countries, plus the United States, Canada,
France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Cuba has not specified who it will send.

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