>from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Cuba Press release Sep 11, 12 >Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 >PRESS RELEASE No. 187 FOR ALL DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS >HAVANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2000 > >HAVANA.- Cuban diplomatic head Felipe Perez Roque will carry out a >full work agenda over the next few days in New York, including >meetings with foreign ministers and participating in the U.N. 55th >General Assembly sessions. After attending the Millennium Summit as >part of the delegation headed by Fidel Castro, the Cuban Foreign >Minister met Burundi Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister Severin >Ntahomvukiye on Saturday. At the meeting, in which themes of mutual >interests were discussed, Cuban U.N. mission head Bruno Rodriguez, >Cuban Foreign Vice Minister Abelardo Moreno, and Manuel Pereira, were >also present. Perez Roque also attended a meeting with Cuban exile >representatives from all over the U.S., which took place at Cuba's >permanent mission headquarters. The minister expressed the >Cuban people's appreciation for support given by the exiles in the >fight for child Elian Gonzalez' return to Cuba. > >CARACAS.- The 6th National Solidarity with Cuba meeting denounced the >U.S. economic war on Cuba yesterday in Caracas, and called for an end >to the Cuban Adjustment Act that encourages illegal emigration from >the Island. After two days of deliberations, the meeting's final >declaration stated the Cuban people's right to complete sovereignty, >self-determination and independence, adding that the truth of the >Cuban Revolution will be promoted, confronting the disinformation >campaign mounted by its enemies. It also supported Fidel Castro and >Hugo Chavez' speeches and those of other Latin American leaders, made >during the recently concluded Millennium Summit, in defense of the >world's poor, and their demands for democratization of the U.N., >especially the Security Council. > >HAVANA.- Officials from 14 Canadian companies will arrive in Havana >today to explore the Cuban market and meet their Cuban counterparts, >announced Cuban Chamber of Commerce sources. The visit is organized >by Canada's International Promotion Center, and the business people >represent sectors including construction, textile manufacture, >hydraulics, telecommunications, electronics and metallurgy. The >visitors will stay in Havana until September 15. > >HAVANA.- Burundi Public Health Minister Doctor Stan Islas Ndahobari >arrived yesterday in Havana heading a delegation from his ministry >invited by his Cuban counterpart Carlos Dotres. The visitor said he >was very interested in reestablishing Cuban medical collaboration >with his country, and highlighted medical support given by the Cuban >government to African and Central American countries. The Burundi >delegation will stay in Cuba until Friday, visiting the Genetic and >Biotechnological Engineering Center and Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine >Institute, among other places of interest. The Latin American School >of Medical Sciences, where more than 3 thousand Latin American and >African young people are studying, is also included on the visitors' >agenda. The Burundi Minister has meetings planned with Cuban >Vice Minister for Foreign Investments and Economic Collaboration >Noemi Benitez and Vice Foreign Minister Jose Guerra Menchero. > >HAVANA.- Cubans will pay tribute to the late Chilean President >Salvador Allende today with the inauguration of a monument to his >memory and an act in the hospital named after him, to mark the 27th >anniversary of his death. The monument is located in Avenida de los >Presidentes, Vedado, Havana, and the tribute, organized by the Cuban >Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), will take place in >the hospital's theater. Allende died on September 11, 1973 in the >Palacio de la Moneda, fighting the military coup d'etat headed by >Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who imposed a cruel 17 year long dictatorship >on the Chilean people. > >HAVANA.- The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) highlighted >Cuban reforestation experiences during a meeting held in Bogota, >Colombia, said Cuban Vice Minister for Agriculture Fidel Ramos >yesterday in Havana. The Latin American and Caribbean Forest >Confederation held its 21st meeting in Colombia, emphasizing the >reforestation achievements made by the countries of the area, >explained Ramos. He also highlighted that for the first >time, Caribbean states have analyzed national reforestation programs, >the importance of forests, and their diversification. Another aspect >to highlight was the participants' interest in strengthening >relations with Cuba in reforestation, added the Vice Minister on his >return to Havana from Bogota. > >HAVANA.- More than 30 countries are using Cuban nickel, and the >Island's reserves could last for a century, revealed sources related >to the sale of the product. Cuban mineral industry export company >Cubaniquel's director, engineer Ariel Maso, stated that Cuba is in >third place in world nickel reserves, and fifth among the world's >nickel producers. Nickel is used by large stainless steel producing >companies for use in the car manufacturing industry, aeronautics and >appliances industry, among others. > >HAVANA.- Companies from 20 countries have confirmed participation in >the 4th International Transport Fair FIT 2000, taking place from >September 20-24 at Havana's Pabexpo, stated the organizers. The >event, considered Cuba's major specialized fair, coincides this year >with the 20th Pan American Railroad Congress, to be held from >September 18-22 at the Havana Conference Center, whose exhibition >center is at Pabexpo. The agenda includes lectures on geographical >information, control and automation systems, cargo transportation >services. > >SYDNEY.- The Sydney declaration, signed by the Cuban >delegation participating in the 27th Olympic Games, was read on >Sunday in a ceremony held at Sydney's Ibero American square. The >chosen place was excellent, because Cuban delegation chief and Cuban >Sports Institute (INDER) president Humberto Rodriguez ratified the >Cuban sports delegation position in front of a bust of Cuban >national hero Jose Marti. Baseball player Juan Padilla and basketball >player Dalia Henry placed a floral tribute at the foot of >the sculpture. Rodriguez recalled that 436 Cubans, including 239 >athletes, will be in Sydney representing their country and defending >the principles of revolutionary sport. > >DPTO.INFORMACION/MINREX > > ********** > >from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Cuba Press release Sep 12 >Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 >PRESS RELEASE No. 188 FOR ALL DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS >HAVANA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2000 > >HAVANA.- Cuban President Fidel Castro inaugurated a course for young >Cubans to train as social workers, and urged them to demonstrate what >a solidary and just society can do, according to information >yesterday. Addressing his audience, the Cuban leader explained the >objective of the initiative, which is part of the program encouraged >by local authorities and political organizations during the current >year "when the Revolution has gained more strength." Fidel Castro >related how the idea to prepare young people for the social work >sector emerged, and how quickly it was realized thanks to >the enthusiasm of Cuba's Union of Young Communists, students and >their relatives, in response to a call made during their vacation >period. The Cuban leader urged them to maintain a high level of >discipline and devote as many hours as possible to study, so they can >be well prepared to work in the sector. > >HAVANA.- Cuban President Fidel Castro received a Chinese Communist >Party (CCP) delegation in a cordial and friendly environment. The >group is headed by Li Tien Yin, member of the organization's >politburo and president of China's Social Sciences Academy. We are >very impressed with the visit, Tien Yin told Fidel Castro, who >expressed his interest in the visitors' work agenda during their stay >on the Island. The Chinese delegation visited the central province of >Matanzas and Playa Giron Museum, which exhibits photos and >testimonies of the U.S..'s first great defeat in Latin America, in >1961. > >UNITED NATIONS.- Cuba asked industrialized countries - mainly the >U.S. - to fulfill their commitments to help developing nations, as >agreed three decades ago with the U.N. Development Program (UNDP). >The statement was made by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque >during a UNDP ministerial meeting held at the U.N. headquarters. >Industrialized countries have the duty to decisively contribute to >Third World development, stated Perez Roque, who transmitted his >government's preoccupation with the decreased aid given by donor >countries to the U.N. program, thus affecting it. It is the developed >nations' historical duty, he added, because almost all of them, >without exception, have developed at the cost of the >southern countries' resources, blood and sweat. And they are >precisely the ones who have benefited by the increasingly unjust and >unequal current international economic order. > >WASHINGTON.- The Republican majority in the U.S. House of >Representatives postponed a vote on their modified motion on Cuba >with the objective of "letting it die." In the opinion of Democrat >legislators in favor of lifting the 40 year old U.S. blockade on >Cuba, Republicans wanted to suffocate the draft bill they themselves >had changed in the Lower Chamber. This project consisted in lifting >sanctions that prohibit the U.S. market trading agricultural products >and medicine with Cuba, but a series of points added by Republicans >virtually changed its intentions. "They do not have enough votes to >pass the motion and that's why they want to let it die," Congressmen >Jose Serrano told press. Serrano is one of the most >active representatives against Washington's current policies on Cuba. > >HAVANA.- The President of the Republic of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, >will begin a two day visit to Cuba today, during which he will >receive the Jose Marti Order, the highest decoration granted by the >Council of State to foreign figures. The Yemenite President, invited >by Fidel Castro, will carry out a wide program of activities and hold >talks with Cuban government and top state officials. Ali Abdullah >Saleh and his delegation will also tour places of social, cultural >and economic interest, and sign several agreements seeking to >strengthen friendship links between both peoples. > >SANTO DOMINGO.- The Cuban medical brigade that worked in the >Dominican Republic after the devastation caused by Hurricane Georges >in 1998 was paid tribute at the mayor's office in Tamayo, 200 km >southwest of the capital. Plaques recognizing the 43 days of work >carried out by a group of 13 doctors, nurses and technicians in the >locality and in Vicente Noble were presented in a ceremony presided >over by City Hall president Ramona Lemos, reported participants. >During the activity, it was highlighted that besides preventing >epidemics, the Cuban specialists performed numerous >operations, reopening operating theaters and delivery rooms at a >Vicente Noble health center. > >HAVANA.- Popular Republic of China Personnel Minister Song Defu met >his Cuban tourism counterpart Ibrahim Ferradaz, who offered wide >information on the sector, its leaders and workers. Defu pointed out >that tourism is a point of economic development for China and Cuba >and expressed his desire to increase mutual exchange in the sector. >Defu also met Minister of Basic Industry Marcos Portal, with whom he >exchanged experiences on cadre work in this sector, particularly >reserves and the direction of objectives. He also held talks with >Cuban Minister of Sugar Ulises Rosales del Toro on issues related to >cadre commissions and evaluations, and the code of ethics. > >LISBON.- Luis Cabral, Guinea Bissau's ex president and former leader >of the Independence guerrillas movement highly valued Cuban aid and >its significance in reaffirming this movement. Cabral, brother of >Amilcar Cabral - murdered revolutionary leader and founder of the >African Party for Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Independence (APGCI), >revealed some details of the crime in an interview published by the >daily Diario de Noticias. He pointed out that during Amilcar's first >stay in Havana, 1966, to attend the Tricontinental Conference, Cuban >President Fidel Castro accepted a request to send means, doctors and >car drivers to help the guerrillas who successfully fought Portuguese >colonial forces. He added that these doctors played an extraordinary >role in the reaffirmation of the party's capacity to help in the >population and combatants' problems, while car drivers >taught guerrillas to drive trucks. > >HAVANA.- Cuban will increase its medical collaboration with the >Republic of Botswana by sending 47 health professionals, said >Botswana First Health Vice-Minister Mathias Chakaliza in Havana. >Chakalisa stated that 18 members of this group of doctors, nurses and >technicians in electromedicine, will substitute an equal number of >Cubans who have now concluded their medical mission in the African >nation. The other 29 represent an increase in the number of Cuban >doctors working in Botswana, where 19% of the population are infected >by the Human Immunodefficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS. > >MANAGUA.- Nicaraguan private entrepreneurs expressed their interest >in establishing trade links with Cuba and their desire to attend >Havana's 18th International Fair. This was announced at a working >breakfast with Cuban diplomatic mission officials, where Nicaraguan >entrepreneurs in sectors including animal husbandry, construction and >timber became acquainted with Cuba's new facilities for foreign >investments. > >HAVANA.- The Casa de Las Americas will today open its doors to "Un >canto por todo", a forum bringing together troubadours from 12 Ibero- >American countries, in the search for a "new song" as it used to do >in the 1960's. Known simply as Casa among its customary guests, and >considered like a mother by many local musicians, it is once more >becoming the chosen place for those who, from the most remote places >in the world and especially Latin America, cultivate what has been >defined as the protest song - "nueva trova" - or new song. According >to organizing committee sources, composers and singers from the >Dominican Republic, including Victor Victor, Spain's Pedro Alferez >and Jep Cardona, and Puerto Rican Americo Boschetti will take part in >the forum. Also participating are famous Cuban troubadours such >as Vicente Feliu, founder of the so-called La Nueva Trova Movement on >the Island together with Pablo Milanes, Silvio Rodriguez and Noel >Nicola, plus Silvana Tabuschi (Argentina), Carlos Lopez Oliva >(Bolivia), Diego Sojo (Costa Rica) and Francisco Villa (Chile). > >DPTO.INFORMACION/MINREX " JC > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. 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