From his account on the Twitter social network, Llorenti highlighted the meeting with professors, academics and students from the Raúl Roa García Higher Institute of International Relations (ISRI), the International Policy Research Center (CIPI) and the World Economics Research Center (ICES).

It is a true honor for me to be in the academy of Cuban diplomacy!, wrote the executive secretary of the regional mechanism.

Another point on the agenda was the meeting with the director of the CIPI, José Ramón Cabañas, as well as with Gladys Hernández, head of the International Finance Department of the CIEM, where the issues of the meetings “with the think tanks of the Global South and others of interest to the @ALBATCP countries,” Llorenti summarized on Twitter.

In addition, he held an exchange with Rogelio Sierra, director of ISRI, in which they discussed the defense of multilateralism, the academic world and the alliances between the institution and ALBA-TCP.

Since March 19, Llorenti has been on a working visit to Cuba where he was received by Carlos de Céspedes Piedra, director of South America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The ALBA-TCP was created in 2004 promoted by the presidents Fidel Castro, of Cuba, and Hugo Chávez, of Venezuela, as a regional organization of Latin American and Caribbean nations focused on the fight against poverty and social exclusion with a basis of solidarity and cooperation among its members.

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