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Sunday, February 26, 2006 

Cuba Expands Caribbean Solidarity

Havana, Feb 26 (Prensa Latina) Cuba continues expanding its solidarity throughout the Caribbean and encouraging regional interchange, so it stands as one of the most active promoters of integration, local press highlights Sunday.

Supporting new projects of cooperation with other countries, is keeping permanent contacts with authorities in the region in order to strengthen links in very important fields such as student formation and medical facilities.

Sunday papers have underlined that on his current visit to the island to review plans for joint cooperation, Dominican Commonwealth Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit met with President Fidel Castro and referred to the initiatives encouraged by both nations in the fields of education and public health.

Similarly, he praised Operation Miracle, a project created by Cuba and Venezuela to offer ophthalmologic assistance to poor people in the region, and appreciated the Cuban people's support and solidarity.

This visit will strengthen excellent existing links and constitutes a new sample of both governments' firm will to maintain and develop bilateral relations, official sources remarked.


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