• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 04 / 17 / 2011

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MarleneDuvalAndAssociates.Cuban President Raul Castro Saturday called for the elimination of improvisations in the country's economic management.

In a speech opening the Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party in Havana, Castro stressed the need for rationalization in decision making in order to obtain better results with lower costs.

Urging an increase of the commanding capability of institutions and companies, he said the current times require a shift from a centralized economic model to a decentralized one.

Castro criticized the attitude of those "who are accommodated while awaiting decisions from higher levels and avoiding the risks of taking own decisions."

"This mentality of inertia must be banished," he said.

He also called for eliminating the excess of unnecessary meetings, a very common problem in the state-run companies, and fighting bureaucracy persisting throughout the nation.

"What we agree in this meeting cannot be kept in the closet, as happened in the previous congresses," he stated.

The four-day caucus is expected to ratify a five-year economic reform plan put forward by Raul Castro and to elect a new party leadership.

The meeting, the first since 1997, should have been convened in 2002, but was delayed due to the economic emergency then and later by the health problems of Raul's elder brother, Fidel Castro, in 2006.

Raul Castro had served as minister of the Armed Forces for more than four decades before replacing his elder brother Fidel as the country's top leader in 2006.

MarleneDuvalAndAssociates is based in New York City, New York, United States of America, and is Reporter for Allvoices Report Credibility

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