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>Radio Havana Cuba-04 October 2000
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>Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 04 October 2000
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>*CARLOS LAGE MEETS WITH JAPAN'S INDUSTRY AND TRADE MINISTER TAKEO HIRANUMA
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>*CUBAN PRESIDENT WELCOMES FINAL GROUP OF ATHLETES HOME FROM SYDNEY
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>*CARIBBEAN HOUSE OF COLOMBIAN SOLIDARITY THANKS CUBAN ATHLETES
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>*FIDEL CASTRO'S LETTER TO WORKERS OF GRANMA NEWSPAPER
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>*IBERO AMERICAN JUSTICE MINISTERS MEETING CONTINUES IN HAVANA
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>*23RD CONGRESS OF AMERICAN CONFEDERATION OF TOURISM MEDIA IN VARADERO
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>*CUBA PARTICIPATS IN MOSCOW'S 6TH INTERNATIONAL TOURISM FESTIVAL
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>*"THE ARAB PRESENCE IN AMERICA" SYMPOSIUM BEGINS NEXT WEEK IN HAVANA
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>*SECOND MILLENNIUM PROMISES LITTLE HOPE FOR WORLD'S POOR MAJORITY
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>*CARLOS LAGE MEETS WITH JAPAN'S INDUSTRY AND TRADE MINISTER TAKEO HIRANUMA
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>Havana, October 4 (RHC) -- In Japan, visiting Cuban Vice President Carlos
>Lage gathered Wednesday with the country's Industry and Trade Minister Takeo
>Hiranuma. Both officials agreed that ties between the two countries are in a
>process of revitalization.
>
>The Cuban Vice President proposed that Havana and Tokyo sign a bilateral
>investment promotion and protection accord, which Hiranuma said Japan would
>study. Lage announced that several Cuban business delegations will be
>traveling to Japan in the near future, and also made reference to next
>January's gathering in Tokyo of the Japan-Cuba Economic Conference.
>
>The highest ranking Cuban government official to be invited to visit Japan
>has also gathered with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Foreign
>Minister Yohei Kono. Japan recently renewed economic cooperation with Cuba
>following negotiations with Havana to renew the payment of Cuba's foreign
>debt to Tokyo, which had been declared in moratorium by the Cuban government
>in 1987.
>
>
>*CUBAN PRESIDENT WELCOMES FINAL GROUP OF ATHLETES HOME FROM SYDNEY
>
>Havana, October 4 (RHC)-- Cuban President Fidel Castro says that Cuba is the
>only country in the world with true amateur athletes. The Cuban leader made
>the statement on Wednesday, in Havana, while welcoming home the last group
>of Cuban athletes and trainers that participated in the Sydney Olympics.
>
>Just minutes before the arrival of the athletes at Havana's Jose Marti
>Airport, the Cuban President himself, returned from Montreal where he had
>attended the funeral service of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre
>Trudeau.
>
>No country in the world, said the Cuban leader, has the conditions to fully
>develop sports, because the dignity of Cuban athletes cannot be bought with
>money.
>
>Fidel Castro characterized the island as "Olympic champions" in the field of
>sports cooperation with the Third World and announced the opening of an
>international physical education school with a capacity for one thousand 500
>students from different countries.
>
>The Cuban President urged the athletes to prepare hard for the Athens
>Olympics in the 2004. "We will support China's candidacy for the 2008
>Olympics," he stated, "and we will begin working toward hosting the 2012
>world games in Havana."
>
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>*CARIBBEAN HOUSE OF COLOMBIAN SOLIDARITY THANKS CUBAN ATHLETES
>
>Barranquilla, October 4 (RHC)-The Caribbean House of Colombian Solidarity
>has congratulated Cuban athletes on their dignity and success in the Sydney
>Olympics.
>
>A document issued in Barranquilla, Colombia, states that the island's
>successes in Australia is a gold medal for Cuba's athletes, its government
>and for President Fidel Castro, who, says the statement, has created a
>policy in support of sports, science, and the arts despite Washington's
>almost 40 year blockade against Cuba.
>
>The Caribbean House document adds that the Cuban athletes won gold, silver
>and bronze medals for each one million of its 11 million inhabitants.
>
>No country in the world, continues the text, can demonstrate such
>statistics, and this was achieved, despite Washington's economic war against
>Cuba.
>
>This triumph, says the Caribbean House of Colombian Solidarity document,
>demonstrates that Cuba has taken a different path than other Latin American
>nations, which are submitted to IMF, and World Bank dictates.
>
>The statement ends by thanking the Cuban athletes for the moments of
>tremendous satisfaction and for winning another Gold medal for Solidarity
>and Friendship.
>
>
>*FIDEL CASTRO'S LETTER TO WORKERS OF GRANMA NEWSPAPER
>
>Havana, October 4 (RHC)-Cuban President Fidel Castro, on Wednesday sent a
>diploma of recognition to the workers of the island's official Granma
>newspaper on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the newspaper whose
>task is to reflect the reality of the Cuban Revolution for millions of
>people on the island and abroad.
>
>The letter of recognition was read by Cuban Communist Party official,
>Rolando Alfonso Borges in a ceremony that was held at the Jose Marti
>Memorial in Havana. Granma newspaper workers, Communist Party members and
>cultural personalities participated in the ceremony.
>
>The Director of Granma newspaper stressed that the official daily has worked
>together with the Cuban people in a variety of battles in defense of the
>island's independence and sovereignty.
>
>
>*IBERO AMERICAN JUSTICE MINISTERS MEETING CONTINUES IN HAVANA
>
>Havana, October 4 (RHC)-A new accord for the creation of an archive of files
>for crimes associated with drug trafficking was the main issue discussed
>during the 12th Conference of Ibero American Justice Ministers on Wednesday
>in Havana.
>
>Ibero American Justice Ministers agreed on Tuesday to create a common front
>to fight organized crime, drug trafficking and crime Mafia.
>
>The Ibero American Justice Ministers meeting is one of a series of
>activities leading up to the Ibero American Summit of Heads of State and
>Government to be held next month in Panama.
>
>
>*23RD CONGRESS OF AMERICAN CONFEDERATION OF TOURISM MEDIA IN VARADERO
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>Havana, October 4 (RHC)-The 23rd Congress of the American Confederation of
>Tourism media is into its second day of sessions at Varadero Beach with the
>participation of representatives from 11 countries.
>
>Delegates to the event are discussing issues related to the new realities of
>the continent's press, tourism in the Americas, risks of mass media in the
>Internet, and the international tourism code of ethics.
>
>Founded in 1973, the American Confederation of Tourism media currently works
>together with some 20 national representatives among them Cuba, which has
>hosted various yearly congresses.
>
>
>*CUBA PARTICIPATS IN MOSCOW'S 6TH INTERNATIONAL TOURISM FESTIVAL
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>Havana, October 4 (RHC)-Cuba is participating in the 6th International
>Tourism Festival entitled "Rest-2000" in Moscow and is planning to make its
>first presentation of the Sol-Melia Hotel Chain in the Cosmos Hotel located
>in the Russian capital.
>
>The representative of Cuba's Tourism Ministry in Russia, Ortelio Alfaro,
>told Prensa Latina news agency that this time, the island has an exhibition
>stand of some 30 square meters, which will include the Cubanacan, Cubatur
>and Iberostar companies.
>
>Alfaro pointed out that since the beginning of the fair last Monday, various
>companies have signed contracts and others are reviewing existing contracts
>with Russian tour operators.
>
>The Cuban official added that the fall fairs began with the "TT Warsaw"
>which was held from the 28th to the 30th of September in the Polish capital.
>
>During that fair, Cuba exhibited tourism materials and made contacts with
>Polish tour operators.
>
>
>*"THE ARAB PRESENCE IN AMERICA" SYMPOSIUM BEGINS NEXT WEEK IN HAVANA
>
>Havana, October 4 (RHC)-Researchers, specialists and historians will
>participate starting Tuesday in Havana, in the third international symposium
>entitled "The Arab Presence In America."
>
>President of Cuba's Arab Association, Alfredo Deriche, pointed out that so
>far 22 delegates from 12 countries have confirmed their presence.
>
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>*SECOND MILLENNIUM PROMISES LITTLE HOPE FOR WORLD'S POOR MAJORITY
>
>It is a sad fact, but as we approach the end of the Second Millennium, the
>great majority of the earth's residents live in poverty, unable to reap the
>benefits of the advanced technology enjoyed by just a third of the world.
>International insitutions and conferences have set the year 2050 as a the
>goal to eliminate by half, the number of the world's poor. Presumably, in
>order to achieve that noble goal, some of the terrible inequalities will be
>eliminated that now exist between the world's 20% of rich nations and the
>80% poor.
>
>If one takes a realistic look at the current world sitution, there is little
>hope that in 50 years poverty will be reduced by half. Among the powers that
>control the world's economies, there are huge conflicts of interests which
>could lead to new wars and more poverty. The great powers are armed and
>continue to arm themselves and to pump more and more resources into the
>military-industrialcomplex, despite the fact that the so-called "cold war"
>ended a decade ago. Meanwhile, the development of a globalized neo-liberal
>economy continues, touted as the great policy to equalize and develope Third
>World economies, under the direction, of course, of the International
>Monetary Fund and World Bank.
>
>It does't take an economist to see what the policies of economic adjustment
>have achieved in the Third World. Anyone on the street in any of those
>countries will list employment, poverty and crime as the results of the
>imposition of the so-called, "free"market economies, which really mean
>wholesale privitization and cuts in education, health and social security.
>
>No Third World people have seen concrete evidence of improvment with the
>application of neo-liberal economic measures, rather, they will end the
>Second Millennium without changes or perspectives for a better future. If
>concrete steps are not taken immediately, the situation could explode,
>threatening world prosperity and peace for all.
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