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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- The Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of the Americas-Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) has declared itself to be in favour of Cuba’s presence at the Sixth Summit of the Americas scheduled for April in Cartagena, Colombia.

The island’s full participation in the Colombia summit, condemnation of Washington’s economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba, and the obtaining of regional support against the latter, appear in the Special Declaration of the 8th (Extraordinary) Meeting of the Council, made up by the foreign ministers of member nations, held in Havana on Wednesday.

Support of Havana was emphasised in the document issued by the foreign ministers of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro; Bolivia, David Choquehuanca; Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño; St Vincent and the Grenadines, Douglas Slater; and Cuba, Bruno Rodriguez; and of Nicaragua’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Valdrack Joentschke.

They rejected the recent declarations of US government officials, who reiterated the refusal of that administration to Cuba’s participation in the Summit of the Americas.

Each head of delegation agreed that there’s no reason for the island to be prevented from attending any meeting for which nations in the region are convened, so they asked authorities in Bogotá, in their condition as hosts, to carry out consultations on this matter with each of the countries invited to the Summit.

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