The Third South Summit

Seeking common prosperity through South-South cooperation

     The Third South Summit was held in Kampala, Uganda, on January 21-22, 2024, providing a new opportunity for countries in development to engage in dialogue and to promote united actions in the face of common challenges.  During the Summit, Cuban Vice-President Salvador Valdes Mesa officially presented the gavel of the presidency pro tempore of the Group of 77 and China to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.  Some 134 states participated in the Summit.

     The First South Summit was held in Havana in 2000, in the international context of two decades of imposition of neoliberal policies by the Western powers.  At that inaugural Summit, Fidel declared, “For the Group of 77, the present hour cannot be one of supplication to the developed countries, nor of submission, defeatism or internal divisions, but of rescuing our spirit of struggle and of unity and cohesion with respect to our demands.”