The two-day summit of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and the Caribbean States (EU-CELAC) ended here on Tuesday with a Declaration containing “wide-ranging agreements” concerning all the major contemporary issues confronting both regions.
“We have some actions to do, we have a lot of follow-up. This is really just part of the process of the renewal and this reaffirmation of the friendship and the relationship between Latin America and the Caribbean,” St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves told the end of the summit news conference.
Gonsalves, who is also the CELAC pro tempore president, told reporters that the summit, the first to be held in the last eight years, will now take place every two years and that the European Union is stronger today than it was yesterday or the day before yesterday as a consequence of the declaration.