Havana: Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel assured on Tuesday that the Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) will defend Venezuela, Prensa Latina reports.

Cuban President, in a message on Twitter, said the achievements of the regional organization founded in 2004 will also be preserved.

The meeting will explore new opportunities for integration and will reaffirm the commitment of unity, cooperation and solidarity among the member nations in the current situation, the Cuban Foreign Ministry informed.

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of each member country are attending the gathering, which is aimed at advising the Presidential Council of this integrationist platform on strategic issues and to present recommendations and proposals on international policy issues.

Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Venezuela form part of ALBA-TCP, which defends the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace adopted at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit in Havana in January 2014.

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