President Ranil Wikremesinghe has been invited to participate in the Summit of the Group of 77 plus China, in Cuba in September.
The Cuban Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Andrés Marcelo González, delivered the letter with the invitation of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel to President Ranil Wickremesinghe during a meeting, diplomatic sources reported.
“Current challenges of development: Role of science, technology and innovation” is the central theme of the upcoming event in Cuba, to be held on September 15 and 16. The G77 plus China was founded in 1964 within the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and is a coalition of 134 countries that promotes collective economic interests of its member states and the creation of enhanced joint negotiation power at the UN. The group has enormous challenges for the development of their nations, which together represent 80 percent of the world’s population and more than two-thirds of the UN membership. - Prensa Latina.