NASSAU, Bahamas — Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell posted a collection of photos on Facebook on Thursday, July 20, 2023 that were taken at the two-day EU-CELAC summit held July 17-18 in Brussels. We decided to share them with readers of BAHAMAS CHRONICLE, which has a huge following among the Bahamian diaspora across the States, Canada and the United Kingdom as well as in The Bahamas and the wider Caribbean. The photos were posted with the following narrative:
“Fred Mitchell, Foreign Minister, and Michael Halkitis, Economic Affairs Minister, with the Greek Foreign Minister Georgios Gerapetritis in the margins of the EU-CELAC meeting on 18 th July 2023 in Brussels. We pledge to support the Greek bid for the IMO Council and the Security Council and they pledged to support us for both as well.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: The leaders of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States on Tuesday concluded a “historic” and “successful” summit in which both sides committed to relaunching the blocs’ political and economic relationship. It marked the first meeting at the highest level between the EU and the CELAC in eight years.
The president of the European Council, Charles Michel, said the summit was a “political success” and that the 70 countries were “absolutely convinced … that they shouldn’t wait eight years to meet again.”
The meeting was “like a new beginning,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
CELAC’s president “pro tempore,” Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, said for his part that following the “historic” agreement reached during the summit the relationship between the two blocs is “today stronger than yesterday or prior to yesterday.”
