Cuba Thanks Arabs for Solidarity with Revolution, Anti-terrorists
The president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Kenia Serrano, today urged the struggle for the release of the island''s anti-terrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the United States to be taken up as an "urgent cause."
Not only is support for the Cuban Revolution and the cause of the Cuban Five, as the antiterrorist fighters are universally known, the same central cause of the Arab peoples, but that of world solidarity as well, Serrano stated in her speech at the Arab meeting of solidarity with Cuba, held at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut.
Serrano, also a member of the Cuban Parliament, praised the Arabs' solid commitment to obtain the release of the men. Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, and Ramon Labañino remain imprisoned, while Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez have returned to Cuba after completing their unjust sentences.
Serrano also expressed Cuba's unrestricted support for the struggles of what she called "our Palestinian brothers," and warned about the need to strengthen unity to counteract maneuvers from those seeking division.
Serrano stated that the meeting held today in this capital came at the right time, "when more than ever we need to embrace and join in a single voice to demand solidarity, amid attacks, from all threats, in the midst of war and death."
She recalled a similar forum held in 2009 in Damascus, Syria, and stressed the activism of the Lebanese solidarity movement with Cuba and the Cuban Five, despite being heterogeneous, and representing different parts of Lebanese society.
The Lebanese Committee of Solidarity for the Release of the Five "is the vanguard of this struggle in the world," Serrano stressed after also assessing the friendship experienced by Palestinians in Lebanon, graduates from Cuban schools, and others.
According to the ICAP president, the Arab meeting was used to "meet, coordinate actions, update us on what is happening in Cuba, organize our agenda of struggle," and denounce the aggressions of the empire against Cuba, Venezuela and all ALBA peoples.
Serrano used her speech to invite Cuba's friends to participate in the third world meeting of solidarity with Caribbean island, scheduled for Oct. 27-29 in Havana, at a moment she praised as crucial to achieve the return to homeland of the three antiterrorist fighters still in U.S. prisons.
Not only is support for the Cuban Revolution and the cause of the Cuban Five, as the antiterrorist fighters are universally known, the same central cause of the Arab peoples, but that of world solidarity as well, Serrano stated in her speech at the Arab meeting of solidarity with Cuba, held at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut.
Serrano, also a member of the Cuban Parliament, praised the Arabs' solid commitment to obtain the release of the men. Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, and Ramon Labañino remain imprisoned, while Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez have returned to Cuba after completing their unjust sentences.
Serrano also expressed Cuba's unrestricted support for the struggles of what she called "our Palestinian brothers," and warned about the need to strengthen unity to counteract maneuvers from those seeking division.
Serrano stated that the meeting held today in this capital came at the right time, "when more than ever we need to embrace and join in a single voice to demand solidarity, amid attacks, from all threats, in the midst of war and death."
She recalled a similar forum held in 2009 in Damascus, Syria, and stressed the activism of the Lebanese solidarity movement with Cuba and the Cuban Five, despite being heterogeneous, and representing different parts of Lebanese society.
The Lebanese Committee of Solidarity for the Release of the Five "is the vanguard of this struggle in the world," Serrano stressed after also assessing the friendship experienced by Palestinians in Lebanon, graduates from Cuban schools, and others.
According to the ICAP president, the Arab meeting was used to "meet, coordinate actions, update us on what is happening in Cuba, organize our agenda of struggle," and denounce the aggressions of the empire against Cuba, Venezuela and all ALBA peoples.
Serrano used her speech to invite Cuba's friends to participate in the third world meeting of solidarity with Caribbean island, scheduled for Oct. 27-29 in Havana, at a moment she praised as crucial to achieve the return to homeland of the three antiterrorist fighters still in U.S. prisons.
Source:
Prensa Latina
Date:
11/03/2014