Meeting of Cubans resident abroad to take place in Havana
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- 01 / 26 / 2010
More than 450 delegates from 42 countries are expected to participate in the event that was named: “Meeting of Cubans Resident Abroad against the Blockade, in Defence of National Sovereignty,” Dagoberto Rodríguez Barrera, Cuban deputy minister
for Foreign Affairs said.
The meeting will give continuity to the open and direct dialogue between emigration leaders and Havana authorities, the Cuban official said before the national and international media.
“It is a work meeting to exchange experiences and coordinate actions, similar to the one held in March, 2008,” Rodriguez said.
He specified that the event was organized in panels in which different topics will be discussed, among them the struggle against the US blockade and interference, defence of national sovereignty, the bonds with the native soil and the fight for
the release of the five Cuban revolutionaries unfairly imprisoned in American jails and the role of culture in the preservation of the Cuban identity.
He said the process of the normalization of relations between the emigrant community and their home nation is continuous, irreversible and permanent. He emphasized that the Cuban government “recognizes, values and counts on the Cubans residing in other countries and who maintain an active attitude in defence of their homeland.”
An exhibit of drawings by Gerardo Hernandez and poems by Antonio Guerrero, two of the Cuban Five will be inaugurated on January 27 as part of the event’s program that also includes a ceremony in honour of national hero Jose Marti on the following day.
A previous edition of the meeting held in March 2008 closed with a final statement in which participants expressed their rejection of the economic, financial and commercial blockade of the US against Cuba.
There are 106 Associations of Cuban Residents Abroad in 61 nations.
Source: ACN
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