Convinced that urgent actions are needed to stop environmental deterioration and protect life on Earth, some 300 delegates from 21 countries are concluding on Friday the Second International José Martí Colloquium "For a Culture of Nature."

Sources from the organizing committee told Prensa Latina that participants will pass a final declaration calling on people to protect life on the planet.

Speeches by Mexican Carlos Bojorquez, president of the Our America Department of the Autonomous University of Yucatan, as well as government officials from the Dominican Republic and Guatemala, will be delivered at Havana's Conference Center.

Commissions on ethics and environment, policy and environmental education, and "for a sustainable world," will also conclude their discussions as part of a bioethics seminar being held at the University of Havana.

Mexican Senator Yeidckol Polevnsky said on Friday, "To read Cuban national hero Jose Marti (1853-1895) is to be convinced that a better world is possible, but we have to fight to achieve it."

Martí was a visionary who wrote in his time about the protection of nature, stated the legislator for the PRD (Partido de la Revolucion Democratica), also acknowledging Martí's legacy through his ethical sense of politics.