Havana, Cuba.- Cuba has a comprehensive strategy for greater complementarity with Caribbean nations that includes issues inherent to foreign trade, cooperation and foreign investment, an authorized source revealed today.

Speaking to the press, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Ileana Núñez, acknowledged that even when excellent relations prevail with her Caribbean neighbors, the largest of the Antilles has insufficiently exploited economic potential.

The official said that recently it was finished negotiating a protocol to expand the list of goods and services that enter into the current exchange and differentiate current tariffs.

She acknowledged there is already insertion in the Cuban market of Caribbean companies such as Trinidad and Tobago and, currently, other entities are motivated and hold talks with their national counterparts to promote investment projects.

It is imposed, he said, the holding of events such as ExpoCaribe, which calls on the entrepreneurs of the Greater Caribbean to participate together with Cuba against the punitive policies of Washington, he said.

According to the report, seven ministers from Santa Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Granada, Curacao, Nicaragua, Jamaica and Suriname, a representative of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, as well as 28 companies from 12 foreign countries, confirmed their attendance at the meeting.

It will also be attended by the Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States, June Soomer and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Alicia Bárcena.

The celebration of Expocaribe is part of the strategy that Cuba has of a greater approach to the region of which we are part and we have a lot of work to do, sentenced Nunez, as deepen relations with the Caribbean Community, Caricom.