Cuban Ambassador thanks solidarity of the government and people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Cuba thanked today the donation of 235 metric tons of flour to the government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which will contribute to relief the complex food situation experiencing by the island right now, due to the intensifying of the US blockade.

The Cuban ambassador designate to this country, Carlos Ernesto Rodríguez Etcheverry, Foreign Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Honorable Keysal Peters and the CEO of the East Caribbean Group of Companies, farewelled the vessel that will transport the important donation, which left this morning for the port of Mariel (Havana), where it will arrive in the coming days.

On behalf of the Cuban Government and people, Rodríguez Etcheverry thanked the Vincentian authorities for the solidarity and humanitarian gesture, at a particularly difficult time for Cuba, which demonstrates once again the solid relationship of brotherhood between the two nations and the commitment to continue strengthening them.