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Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez extended Cuba's sympathies to his Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassil for the 44 victims of a terrorist attack perpetrated in a southern neighborhood of Beirut.
"I have learned of the terrorist attack that claimed dozens of lives in the Burj El-Barajneh neighborhood, in Beirut. I convey my sincere condolences, which I extend to the relatives of the victims," said Rodriguez in a message handed over to Foreign Minister Bassil on Tuesday.
Our goal continues to be the defeat of imperialism to construct a world of peace and solidarity, said Nicolas Papademetriou, president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), reading the final declaration approved by the organization’s XIX General Assembly, which concluded yesterday, November 12, in Havana.
On November 20-21, the Fourth International Seminar for Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases will take place in the province of Guantánamo, Silvio Platero, president of the Cuban Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples, announced this Thursday, November 12, at the International Press Center.
The event, organized by the Cuban Movement for Peace and the World Peace Council, will be hosted in Mariana Grajales hall at the provincial Plaza de la Revolución.
Cuba emphasized here the importance of the creation of capacities, aimed at strengthening sustainable systems to face new outbreaks of Ebola.
This was expressed by Anayansi Rodriguez, Cuban representative at the United Nations Office based in this Swiss city, after addressing a debate on the issue in the context of 325th session of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization (ILO), which continues its sessions today.
To share pedagogical experiences and scientific results are part of the objectives of the 17th International Event ''The Teaching of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer, Matecompu-2015'', scheduled from November 17 to 21.
Organized by the University of Matanzas, the academic meeting will be held at the hotel Acuazul, in this western province, located 140 kilometers east of Havana.
The Cuban medical brigade in Honduras has assisted over 29 million citizens particularly in rural and remote areas since the doctors arrived in the Central American nation in 1998 to help the victims of Hurricane Mitch.
Local media reports cited brigade coordinator, Orlando Alvarez as saying that the doctors are offering their services to all Hondurans needing medical assistance.
Cuba will insist on the adoption of a binding agreement during the upcoming UN Climate Change Summit in Paris, France.
Cuban Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment Elba Rosa Pérez is currently in Paris, participating in a ministerial meeting, as part of preparations for the summit that is slated to begin later this month.
José Ramón Balaguer, head of the Foreign Relations Department at the Cuban Communist Party's Central Committee described the 1st Congress of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) as timely and in perfect tune with the reality of El Salvador.
Cuban ambassador in Venezuela, Rogelio Polanco, stressed the need to defend and maintain the integration mechanisms that drive today's progressive governments in Latin America.
In statements to Prensa Latina, Polanco said that reality is possible thanks to the defeat suffered 10 years ago by the mechanism of domination known as the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), proposed by the United States.
The World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) will hold its 19th General Assembly in Havana from November 9-12, announced the organizing committee.
More than 130 representatives of youth organizations will meet at the Havana International Conference Center with the purpose of evaluating the work of WFDY in the current global political context, said Jose Angel Maury, Head of International Relations Department of the National Committee of Young Communist League of Cuba (UJC).
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