Cuba and Brazil commit to coordinating positions to protect the environment

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By Yaima Puig Meneses, translated from the Spanish

"It is a pleasure to receive you in Cuba," First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, said when welcoming Mauro Vieira, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Brazil, at the Palace of the Revolution, a few hours before starting a working visit to Cuba on Friday (January 24).

In addition to the "opportunity to see each other again," this meeting allows us to send "first of all a firm hug to Lula," said Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, who also noted that "we are following his recovery very carefully and with satisfaction."

The Brazilian Foreign Minister said that the President of his country, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, "is very well, he has fully recovered and sends him his greetings," as well as an invitation to participate in the Brazil-Caribbean Summit, which will take place on June 13 in Brasilia, after the meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank. between June 9 and 12.

During the meeting, which was also attended by member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, the distinguished visitor explained that President Lula attaches "great importance" to the meeting, because "it is also an opportunity to be in contact with the heads of state and to coordinate positions on many issues, one of them the environment, with a view to COP30 that will be held in Brazil."

The President, he said, is very interested in the contributions that Cuba can make to the Summit.

After thanking him for the invitation to the meeting, the Cuban president stated "that for us this meeting in Brazil is important, with Lula's emphasis on the Caribbean, because together we can agree on many things."

The environmental issue is of central importance for the Caribbean, he stressed, because countries that are "insular are very vulnerable to the problems of climate change, and having a relationship with Brazil can be important; and everything we can contribute we are willing to."

According to various media outlets, the Summit will be a significant milestone in the resumption of dialogue and collaboration within the Caribbean, a region with which Brazil has a long history of cooperation and shares common values and concerns.

Cuba was the final point of the tour made by Foreign Minister Viera in recently. Before that, he was in Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica and the Bahamas.

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