>from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >subject: Cuba Press release Sep 16, 18 >PRESS RELESE NO. 193 FOR ALL DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS >HAVANA,SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2000. NSA > > UNITED NATIONS.- Cuba demanded last Friday to impulse concrete >actions to fulfill the commitments adopted by the Millennium Summit a >week ago to foster peace, disarmament, eliminate poverty and other >big problems to improve man's life. After the Summit, everyone is >certain about one thing. It's time to act, to take concrete measures >to fight misery and underdevelopment which beat upon the majority of >the countries worldwide, asserted Foreign Minister Felipe Perez >Roque before the General Assembly. Cuba is poor; however, it has an >important human capital. It has already began to act and put a >Health Integral Program into operation two years ago, by means of >which almost 2,00 specialists serve in 16 Central American, >Caribbean and Subsaharian African countries. > > UNITED NATIONS.- Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque >fulfilled friday here a packed agenda which included speeches before >the General Assembly and the Group of 77 (G-77), and meetings with >counterparts from Italy, Guyana, Argentina, Philippines and >Djibouti. Perez Roque initiated the agenda with an interview with >his Italian counterpart Lamberto Dini, and later participated in the >ministerial meeting of the G-77, which groups over 100 Third World >countries. > > HAVANA.- Tang Jiaxuan, China's Foreign Affairs Minister will attend >the signing of academic and economic cooperation agreements between >his country and Cuba, as reported this Friday. According to Cuban >Communist Party's (PCC) official newspaper Granma, Chinese Foreign >Minister will remain in Cuba for two days, invited by his Cuban >counterpart Felipe Perez Roque. Jiaxuan and his delegation have >included in their agenda the signing of an economic and technical >agreement and other between both States' diplomatic institutes. >The Chinese minister will have official dialogues with Perez Roque >and State's Council vice-president Carlos Lage, and also will visit >places of social, cultural and economic interest around Cuba. > >HAVANA.- Fifteen thousand people from the Cuban province of >Guantanamo, representing the 11 million inhabitants of the island, >will attend an open tribune today against the US blockade, at Niceto >Perez, Guantanamo, where the people will demand the elimination of >the Cuban Adjustment Act (1966) and the end of the hostile US policy >against the island. The site chosen for the mass action is the place >that began an uprising at the beginning of the Independence War in >1868, and where National Hero Jose Marti and Dominican General Maximo >Gomez stayed after they landed at Playita de Cajobabo. > >HAVANA.- The denounce against the economic blockade and slander >campaigns against Cuba will be the main topics of discussion at the >2nd World Meeting of friendship and Solidarity with Cuba, to take >place next November. Master conferences, commission works, meetings >with non-government organizations, and the adoption of a Final >Declaration comprise the event's program. Almost 4,000 visitors from >all around the world are expected to attend. The event, which will >take place from November 10-14 in Havana, will be sponsored by the >Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP) and 70 national >organizations, said ICAP spokesman Alberto Garcia. > >HAVANA.- The Guatemalan indigenous leader and Nobel Prize 1992 >Rigoberta Menchu talked Friday with Sergio Corrieri, president of >the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP). According to >national analysts, the talks were chiefly focused on the upcoming >holding of the 2nd World Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, organized >by ICAP. As part of a four-day visit to the Island, the Principe de >Asturias Prize (1998) has scheduled to offer a press conference at >ICAp's headquarters, downtown Havana. Menchu visited Friday the >Latin American School of Medicine, where over 3,000 youths from the >region study, including hundreds of Guatemalans. > >BERLIN.- Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Angel Dalmau concluded a two- >day visit to Germany as part of a tour throughout Europe, aimed >at strengthening bilateral links. During his stay, Dalmau, >accompanied by Jorge Quesada, Assistant Director of Cuba's Foreign >Ministry for Europe, met with Christoph Zepell, State Minister of >Germany's Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They talked about the >situation of bilateral relations, making emphasis on the economic, >commercial, cultural and scientific potential to develop. They also >shared criteria about the European Union, the state of relations >between Cuba and the United States, as well as updated information >about domestic political and economic development. > >HAVANA.- The governments of Colombia and Cuba signed last Friday >an economic complement treaty at the Latin American Integration >Association, thus strengthening trade exchange between these nations. >The treaty will grant tariff and off-tariff preferences between the >countries, what will contribute to strengthen interchange among the >members of this association, commented a source related to the >institution. Following this agreement, Cuba and Colombia will reduce >a 50 per cent on the importation tariff to different products and in >some cases, its total elimination. > >MEXICO.- Mexican senator and Institutional Revolutionary Party >(PRI) representative Fernando Gutierrez today declared that the 40- >year US blockade damages the Cuban nation. During an analysis of >Mexico's foreign policy in the last report presented by President >Ernesto Zedillo, Gutierrez rejected "the hostility and difficult >circumstances suffered by the Cuban people, who have fought to >achieve their survival". He considered that his country's position >toward Cuba "should be clearer in the sovereign decision to not allow >its diplomatic isolation in the hemispheric community". > > HAVANA.- Mexican Ambassador in Cuba, Heriberto M. Galindo, assured >that his country's relations with Cuba gets its better high and >considered as excellent. The diplomat said that in the occasion of >the 190 anniversary of the Grito de Dolores, which began the time >to get Mexico's independence. He highlighted that both nations have >made a great effort to preserve historical fraternity and to increase >love between its respective people, to multiply the collaboration >mechanisms, to strengthen its links and for Cuban-Mexican brotherhood >be more effective every time. Regarding that, Galindo said that in >the political, diplomatic, cultural and fraternal aspects, "we are in >one of the best moments of our relations", he said. > > HAVANA.- A Villa Clara provincial delegation to visit Asturias >Princedom analyzed the six cooperation projects agreed upon between >their principal city, Santa Clara and Oviedo, capital of Asturias >Princedom, in sisterhood since May of this year. Before going to >Oviedo, Cuban People's Power provincial assembly president Alexis >Melgarejo told Vanguardia local newspaper that the delegation will >analyze the agreements and explore new ways of collaboration with >their Asturian counterpart. Melgarejo stated that with this trip they >repay a visit Oviedo's authorities recently made to Santa Clara, >besides ratifying the friendship links established this year. > >HAVANA.- The biggest of the Antilles will attend the 16th World >Trade International Fair to be held in Canada Sept 20th-22nd, as it >was confirmed by Cuban Commerce Chamber sources. Cuba's main >objective at the forum, in Montreal, points out to appraise "in situ" >the possibilities the Fair might offer Cuban enterprises in general. >In an institutional stand, the Cuban Commerce Chamber will offer all >interested people commercial information about the Caribbean island. >Meanwhile, this incursion will allow to explore the Fair's stock >market's potential, where Cuban enterprises might soon contact their >Canadian and other countries' partners. >DPTO. INFORMACIÓN/ MINREX > > *********** > >from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >subject: Cuba Press release Sep 18 >PRESS RELESE NO. 194 FOR ALL DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS >HAVANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2000 NSA > >HAVANA.- Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Perez Roque called >the existing level of understanding in the U.S. society on the duty >of eliminating the unjust U.S. blockade on Cuba impressive. Our >victory over the blockade and other actions of this type is a little >closer, said the Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister after his return to >Havana after participating at the U.N. General Assembly Period of >Sessions and the Millennium Summit. I can affirm that the U.S. >people is learning about our triumphs in the different sectors, >especially in culture, sports and health which was demonstrated in >the constant questions asked to us during our visit, which he called >a success. > >HAVANA.- Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Tang Jiaxuan is continuing >a three day official visit to Cuba and visited Varadero tourist site, >located over 140 kilometers east of Havana. After his arrival to >Havana, the Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister held official talks >with his Cuban counterpart Felipe Perez Roque, with whom he signed >two agreements for the economic and academic cooperation. The >academic agreement signed comprises the exchange of professors and >experts for the joint research between Cuban Raul Roa Garcia Foreign >Affairs Institute and the Chinese Diplomatic Institute. The second >agreement states the economic cooperation and through which China >granted the Island over 15 million yuans, equal to over US$ 2 million >for the buying of medicines. > > SYDNEY.- A great acceptance reached the lecture given by the >Cuban Olympic Committee President Jose Ramon Fernandez at the >exhibition seat that was organized by solidarity groups with Cuba. >The also Cuba's Council of Ministers Vice President stated to >people present on the Cuba's economic, political and social >situation. He discussed about these and other themes, including >cuban sports system characteristics, that apart from >professionalism, trade, among other evils, is amongst best in >the world. The way Cuba does it and its considerable collaboration >with many other countries monopolized a great part of the dialogue, >inserted in the exhibition program. > >UNITED NATIONS.- The governments of 70 countries, included the 15 of >the European Union, reiterated U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan >their rejection to the U.S. wish of making international the U.S. >blockade on Cuba for over 40 years. The majority of those nations, >included 22 Latin Americans and Caribbeans, ratified Annan their >support to the resolution of need of ending the U.S. economic, trade >and financial blockade on Cuba approved by the U.N. General Assembly >on its 8th Period of Sessions since 1992. Those countries' positions >are established in their replies to a requirement to this motion by >Annan on March 22 and they are comprised in a report published in the >United Nations with deadline on July 24. These considerations will >contribute to the fulfilment of the Resolution that Annan should >present to the current 55th General Assembly Ordinary Period of >Sessions. There will be a voting at the end of November during >this period and a project with the same objective. > >HAVANA.- Cuba is a safe country for investments and is important to >promote its oil sector at international level, stated in Havana an >official from the British government, cited by the local press. I >return to the United Kingdom with a very positive impression of what >I have seen in Cuba and especially of the oil activity, said British >Ministry of Trade and Industry Department of Oil and Gas director >Ken Forrest when concluding his first visit to Cuba. Forrest >travelled to the Island aiming at exploring the market. He left with >enough elements to convince companies such as Shell to come to Cuba, >according to Opciones weekly. Forrest stated that for the forthcoming >Havana's International Fair (FIHAV-2000) to be held in November, he >will accompany the British oil companies which decide to participate. > >HAVANA.- Brazilian PETROBRAS company will soon begin the perforation >of a test well in Cuba to extract oil in a promising maritime area, >yesterday highlighted national press. Opciones weekly commented >that geological structures with possibilities of containing oil in >a sector neighboring to Felipe key, north of the central east >province of Ciego de Avila. This first perforation of three >scheduled may take two months, revealed the source. The area is of >300 sq. km. and is located next to Cuba's north coast and the Canal >Viejo de Bahamas. The chosen region has not been yet totally explored >but experts from BrasOil-Cuba, the branch created for these works >and in which the Canadian firm Sherrit firm participate, think that >reserves may contain over 700 million barrels of oil. Although >the figures are very optimistic, BrasOil-Cuba considers 15 >percent probabilities of success in this first test. > >HAVANA.- Cuban People's Savings Bank (BPA) and Chilean Encouragement >to Production Corporation signed an agreement to give the first one a >line of credits, pointed out a national newspaper. Credits give BAP >facilities to obtain capital and durable goods of an amount of US$ 20 >million in Chile at long term payment (up to 10 years) and low >interests rates, stated Opciones economic weekly. BAP First Vice >President Yliana Aguiar Correa said that in the financing of Chilean >exports to Cuba, tourism is a priority. In this sector, the first two >operations have been made at US$ 1.7 million. These transactions >consist of the purchase of refrigerators, freezing chambers and other >equipments for tourism group Cubanacan S.A..' Palmares S.A. >restaurants and coffee shops company. > >HAVANA.- Experts and business people from different nations will >meet this week to analyze problems of this sector, national media >said yesterday. The analysis will be at Havana's Conference Center >where over 400 delegates and guests will attend the 20th Pan-American >Railway Congress, held in Havana for the third time. The attendants >will analyze 81 reports by experts from 14 countries, Cuba among them >with 24 and Brazil with 17, "Opciones" weekly said. >DPTO. INFORMACIÓN/ 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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