> >To: "Cuba SI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tele.dk> >From: "Per Rasmussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [Cuba SI] More than 120 cooperation projects > >April 12, 2000 >More than 120 cooperation projects >� Will remain on file at the Group of 77 headquarters in New York >for further elaboration >BY RAISA PAGES (Granma International staff writer) >MORE than 120 cooperation projects, open to additions and improvements in >the permanent files open at the Group of 77 headquarters in New York, were >approved by a working group on South-South cooperation. >Cuba, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, China, Viet Nam and Colombia were the >countries with the most initiatives in this process of revitalizing >reciprocity within the underdeveloped world, at a time when there is a >worrisome decrease throughout the world of development aid provided by the >most economically powerful countries. >Cuba proposed 71 projects with varying profiles in public health, >education, agriculture, basic industry, fishing, potable water supply, >transportation and more, explained Ra�l Taladrid, deputy minister of >foreign investment and economic cooperation, at a press conference for the >Cuban and foreign press accredited for the South Summit. >Taladrid explained that the United National Development Program (UNDP) >Special Unit for the Group of 77, the P�rez Guerrero Fund, and the new >initiative to use South countries with considerable experience in >international collaboration as pivots are the "three engines" providing >permanent, flexible and systematic mechanisms for the exploration of >financing, in order to get South-South cooperation off and running. He also >noted that this concept is included in the Program of Action approved at >the G-77 Summit. >He stated that the underdeveloped countries' human resource potential and >other variants to normal financing were analyzed, pointing out that that >the UNDP has a minimum of $700 million USD for this year. >The exploration of probable "windows" of resources for putting these >programs into action can include various formulas, and Taladrid gave as >examples five Cuban cooperation programs in Haiti, in coordination with the >Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in which the island contributes >250 agricultural and food technicians. >"We must knock on all the doors," Taladrid said, "because South-South >cooperation cannot take the place of the North's moral obligation toward >the developing world." >The panel called Summits: Commitments and Cooperation-organized in Havana >with the participation of the UNDP coordinator and a high official of the >Italian government-focusing on projects related to public health, >agriculture and the prevention of natural disasters in the Caribbean, is >another of the variants being revived, with the participation of third >countries. Taladrid insisted that funding should be sought from sources >such as NGOs, foundations, the private sector and regional development >banks. >The summit's working group stated that aid programs would always be >accepted, as long as they do not violate the principles of sovereignty, he >clarified. >Cuba presented plans for cooperation in integral medical care, literacy >classes for young people and adults in rural and mountainous areas, >tropical plant improvement and animal breeding, maritime transportation, >environmental impact studies and others. > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Elimination of the exploitation of man by man! >Yours in solidarity >Per Rasmussen >Denmark > >"One has to have a great dose of humanity, a great dose of the feeling of >justice and of truth not to fall into extreme dogmatism, into a cold >scholasticism, into isolation from the masses. Every day one has to >struggle that this love to a living humanity transform itself into concrete >acts, in acts that serve as examples, as motivation." >Ernesto Che Guevara > >"The Marxist-Leninist doctrine on class struggle and the dictatorship of >the proletariat affirms the role of violence in revolution, makes a >distinction between unjust, counter-revolutionary violence and just, >revolutionary violence, between the violence of the exploiting classes, and >that of the masses." >General Vo Nguyen Giap > >Let us continue the path of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao! >Long live Marxism-Leninism Mao Tsetung Thought! >IMPERIALISM AND ALL REACTIONARIES ARE PAPER TIGERS! > >Familien Rasmussen: >http://home0.inet.tele.dk/pera/ >S�rens hjemmeside: >http://w1.1559.telia.com/~u155900387/ > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Make money at pointclick! >Hundreds of retailers with tons of discounts! >http://click.egroups.com/1/3418/0/_/30563/_/955823875/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Cuba SI - Imperialism NO! >Information and discussion about Cuba. >Socialism or death! >Patria o muerte! >Venceremos! >http://www.egroups.com/group/cubasi > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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