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Weekly Report - 11 December 2014 (WR-14-49)
CARIBBEAN: Caricom-Cuba ties: need for a revamp
The 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) ended the fifth Caricom-Cuba summit in Santiago de Cuba on 8 December with the usual call on the US for “an end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo against the Republic of Cuba”. Antigua & Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer, the current head of Caricom, said the “transformational change” under way in Washington should “relegate the embargo to history”.
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