Timor Leste''s battle for declaring the territory free of illiteracy by 2012 received on Monday a new effort with the arrival of 32 new Cuban professors and advisers.

This contingent of education experts relieves the group that has worked for two years in distant places of this country, where Cuba is also developing several humanitarian missions in health.

The teachers were welcomed by the national non-formal education minister. He was grateful to this new solidarity gesture from Cuba, diplomatic sources told Prensa Latina.

Another group of Cuban physicians arrived in this week, whose contribution to improve health rates in Timor Leste have been recognized by this country's government.

The work carried out by Cuban physicians in this nation is a wall against that that crashed all attempt of discrediting the Revolution's humanism, Doctor Irene Calderon stated.