For the director of the International Policy Research Center, José Ramón Cabañas, the next summit of the bloc, to be held in Havana next September 15th and 16th, will confirm Cuba’s ability to form consensus and its commitment to multilateralism.

Cuba developed an intense agenda to put into practice the vision defended by the Group since it assumed the pro tempore presidency of the G77 and China in January 2023.

During the period, Cuba hosted important gatherings, among them the meetings of ministers of Education, Culture and Tourism of the Group, and the one of the ministers and high authorities of the environment of the 134 member countries, last July in Havana.

At the request of Cuba, the G77 and China also presented the draft resolutions “Towards a new international economic order” and “Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries” in the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly.

The Summit has a crucial importance in a global scenario marked by the significant technological gap that limits the development opportunities of the countries of the South, and in the face of the imperative to draw up strategies to achieve a more just and truly democratic world.

It also has a special significance in the midst of the efforts of the countries of the South to find ways for their independent and sovereign development, in a context of multidimensional crisis on a planetary scale, and the attempts of the West to perpetuate its hegemony in the face of the rise of emerging nations to positions of global economic leadership.

The objective of the event is to identify the potential of the nations that belongs to the bloc in terms of science, technology and innovation, and to consolidate the unity, integration and complementarity of the scientific structures of the member countries of the bloc to face future challenges.

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