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Grenada and St. Kitts and Nevis - New
members of Alba-TCP
Grenada and St. Kitts and Nevis, this Sunday
December 14, became members of the Bolivarian
Alliance for the Peoples of our America-People's
Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), during the XIII Summit
taking place in Havana.
Grenadian President Keith Mitchell praised the
efforts of Cuba and Venezuela to promote the
projects advancing within ALBA-TCP, affirming that
Alba is a powerful group which promotes social
policies and advocates for peace and
non-intervention, while emphasizing that roles of
the historic leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel
Castro and deceased President Hugo Chávez, who
initiated the regional alliance.
Likewise Prime Minister Denzil Douglas of St. Kitts
and Nevis described Alba as an exemplary model of
cooperation which has led to improvement in the
areas of Health, education, culture, and finances,
showing that an alternative route to human
development exists.
He indicated that his country recognizes Alba as an
institutional means to expand cooperation and
integration among countries of the South.
Cuba, Venezuela, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia,
Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, St. Lucia, St. Vincent
and the Grenadines, Grenada and St. Kitts and Nevis
are members of the alliance, with Haiti as a special
guest participant.
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