Díaz-Canel greeted personally and shook hands with the attending presidents, including Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, Suriname’s President Chan Santokhim, and Sri Lanka’s Ranil Wickremesinghe, among other heads of State.

More than 100 delegations from member countries of the bloc and officials from international organizations are attending the forum to discuss political and economic issues relevant to developing countries.

In addition to the speech by the president of Cuba, the country that holds this year’s pro tempore presidency of the organization, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will speak. Next, the general debate will take place.

Participants expect to follow up on the Group’s historic demands, particularly the new international economic order, the reform of the global financial architecture, the rejection of unilateral coercive measures, situations of concentration of wealth or increasing poverty, and the overwhelming foreign debt weight.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez recently announced that the draft final declaration of the event is faithful to the objectives and principles of the Group, meets the needs of its member States, and is firmly attached to the demand for the right to development amid an increasingly exclusive international order.

The G77+China is the most diverse grouping in the multilateral sphere and has 134 member states, which account for two-thirds of the United Nations membership and 80 percent of the world’s population.

The G77+China Summit will conclude on Saturday, September 16.

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