>from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >subject: Cuba Press release Sep 22 >PRESS RELEASE No. 197 FOR ALL DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS >HAVANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2000 > >HAVANA.- Cuba's President Fidel Castro presided the initiation of >a university students' brigade that will do voluntary social work in >this city's communities, local press reported yesterday. "I know you >are going to make a great sacrifice, but I also know you will like >it", expressed the head of state in his speech in a Havana's theater. >Most of these students are in second to fourth year of humanities and >pedagogic studies and will volunteer after classes, mainly on >Saturdays. Their mission is to detect the social problems affecting >the communities. > >HAVANA.- Cuba termed the recent hijacking of a small airplane which >fell in the sea on its way to the United States transporting 10 >passengers a piracy act and a dramatic and inopportune fact. Granma >official daily yesterday offered details on the plane hijacking and >highlighted as the most negative thing is that it took place just 48 >hours before restarting migration talks between Cuba and the U.S. >"The absence of any kind of sanctions on sea and air piracy >incidents as well as on planes and ships kidnappings, carried out in >many occasions using violence and killing people, has become one >of the strongest encouragements to illegally migrate to the U.S.," >it concluded. > >HAVANA.- The United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Vice-Foreign >Minister Baroness Patricia Scotland began her full work agenda in >the island meeting Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Perez Roque. >The latter considered Scotland's experience exchange with Cuban >officials to be very useful "because it will allow her to have an >idea on the country's situation and plans". The Baroness noted that >her trip to Havana is due to an invitation of Perez Roque and its >country's friendship relations with Cuba. After talking at closed >door with her host, Scotland held official conversations with her >Cuban counterpart Angel Dalmau, with whom she will sign today >a bilateral collaboration letter of intent. "I came to Cuba to visit >good friends from the Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry, "stated >Scotland on her arrival at Jose Marti International Airport coming >from Jamaica. > >HAVANA.- Cuban and U.S. officials resumed migration talks in New >York in the midst of strong accusations against Cuban Adjustment Law >and the recent hijacking of a small airplane resulting a tragedy. The >talks, interrupted on December 1999 after Elian Gonzalez case, the >boy whose mother died while illegally leaving the island and whose >Miami-based relatives tried to turn into a political trophy, will >only deal with migration issues, reported a Cuban source. As in >previous meetings, Ricardo Alarcon, Parliament President, is heading >Cuban delegation while William Brownfield, State Secretary for >Hemispheric Issues is in charge of U.S. party. > >HAVANA.- The 4th Meeting of the Latin American Association for >Integration (ALADI) Tourism Council, sessioning at Hotel Nacional >closed yesterday after issuing a commemorative post stamp for the >20th anniversary of the organization. The final minute of the >meeting, the first one held in Cuba as ALADI General Secretary Juan >Francisco Rojas said in the opening speech, was also passed. The >meeting sought to increase cooperation and exchange experiences on >tourism among its 12 member countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, >Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, >Venezuela and Cuba. > >HAVANA.- About 1,500 Latin American and Caribbean delegates will >attend the 2nd World Solidarity with Cuba meeting, November 10-14, >reported a Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) >source. ICAP Latin American and Caribbean Department director Marta >Lidia Rodriguez asserted there are 465 friendship associations in 36 >countries in the region, which demonstrates the growing moral >support given to Cuba. According to ICAP's estimates, Mexico will >bring the largest delegation, 300 members, followed by Brazil, >Argentina and Chile while other 200 will come from the Caribbean. The >reason for such a high number of participants is the promotion work >carried out by organizing committees in these countries. > >JOHANNESBURG.- The 7th Confederation of South African Trade Unions >(COSATU) Congress unanimously passed a special resolution >reiterating its denounces to U.S. blockade imposed on Cuba. Trade >Union sources reported that the more than 1,500 delegates attending >the congress of the most important organization of this type in >South Africa ratified their unconditional solidarity with Cuba and >its people in its fight for national independence and sovereignty. >COSATU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, in his central report, >valued historical relations between his organization and Union >of Cuban Workers (CTC), which will be strengthened in the next >bilateral meeting to be held between both organizations. > >HAVANA.- Cuban company Aeromar S.A. will soon exploit >passenger transportation service, the first experience of this type >in Latin America, through airglidders on an air mattress. According >to Aeromar commercial manager engineer Reneido Perez Rodriguez, this >is the fourth company using these technical means for passengers' >commercial transportation in the world. There are only two British >and one Japanese firms, plus the Cuban, which have adopted such a >safety, stable and ecological transportation means, Perez explained. > >SYDNEY.- The book Haciendo Historia, containing interviews with four >Cuban Armed Forces generals, was launched in this Australian city. >The ceremony was attended by one of its protagonists, Cuban Olympic >Committee president Jose Ramon Fernandez. Pathfinder publishing >house printed the two volumes in English and Spanish reflecting >Fernandez, Enrique Carreras, Harry Villegas and late Nestor Lopez >Cuba's experiences. The launching took place at Cuban Sports >Exhibition Center, an exhibition organized by solidarity groups with >Cuban people during Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. > >DPTO.INFORMACION/MINREX " JC > > ********* > >from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >subject: Cuba Press release Sep 25 >PRESS RELEASE NO. 199 FOR ALL DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS >HAVANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2000. NSA > >SANTO DOMINGO.-Dominican historian Ramon Font Bernard qualified >Cuban President Fidel Castro as "an exceptional being, among the most >outstanding heads of state and revolutionaries in universal history." >After highlighting that the name Fidel Castro appears every day in >all mass media in the world, Font Bernard said "he came as a >peacemaker to demonstrate there is not space for a new version on >Manifest Destiny, in relation to the U.S. hegemonic policy. Cuban >leader's biography "should entered humankind's history an acronym >similar to the well-known AC or DC," said the historian in an >article on "Cuban Revolution Antecedents", published on Sunday by >the journal Hoy. > >CARACAS.-Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez announced his country >will sign an integral cooperation covenant with Cuba covering >health, sports and power fields. In his radio program "Alo, >Presidente", in which he talks to the population by phone, Chavez >pointed out that the agreement could be signed during next Cuban >President Fidel Castro's visit to Venezuela. We are planning to send >doctors to our most distant places to take care of our population. >We are calling our doctors to respond to this necessity, he >explained. If the number of Venezuelan doctors responding to the >call is not enough, "we will have to activate an international health >care plan and our Cuban friends can help us with that." Chavez >referred to the high quality of Cuban sports and its role in Sydney >2000 Olympic Games on behalf of Latin America, the result of a work >program carried out in the Island. > >HAVANA.-Cuba revealed new evidences on U.S. government violation >of migration agreements, signed by both countries, and forces >U.S. authorities to respond to such testimonies. An editorial >published in the front page of Sunday edition of Granma daily, Cuban >Communist Party Central Committee official journal, offered details >on facts confirming Washington government allies' hostile policy >and complicity concerning crimes. > >HAVANA.-Jose Ramon Balaguer, member of Cuban Communist Party >Political Bureau, awarded Viet Nam Motherland Front (VMF) the >Council of State Solidarity Order for its unconditional support with >the island. Such a high distinction was received by the member of >Viet Nam Communist Party's Politburo Permanent Committee and VMF >president Phan The Duyet in a ceremony held on Sunday at Jose Marti >memorial, in Havana. Revolution Defense Committees National >Coordinator Juan Contino read the decree by the Cuban Council of >State highlighting the position of VMF, a front gathering every >Vietnamese social, political and mass organizations. We want to >honor the Vietnamese people for its innumerable friendship >and solidarity demonstrations with Cubans, asserted Contino >referring to VMF's solidarity campaigns to send food and other >products to Cuba. > >GUANTANAMO, CUBA.-German Secretary of State for Technical >Cooperation and Development Erich Stather said his country is >interested in increasing collaboration with Cuba to protect the >environment while reading a salutation message at the International >Conference for the 200th anniversary of German naturalist Alejandro >de Humboldt's visit to Cuba. The conference was open on Sunday in >Guantanamo city, located in the easternmost province of Guantanamo. >Stather also highlighted the necessity of making good use of world >biodiversity and its preservation through realist combinations for >both cases. > >HAVANA.-Cuba successfully enlarged the construction of close and >emergency floodgates for dams to be exported, published on Sunday >the economic weekly Opciones. According to the report, Villa Clara >Mecanica Factory, located in the central region, produces steel 12 >m long, 3 mt high, 2mt wide and 55 ton floodgates. At present, it is >working on a Venezuelan demand, 10 units: 6 close and 4 emergency >floodgates. This factory produces parts and equipments for Latin >American and Caribbean sugar industries such as bagasse transporting >chains, crowns, blazers for mills, etc. > >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. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
