On the third day of the “Por el Equilibrio del Mundo” Conference, the Cuban President met with representatives of Venezuela, Spain's Podemos, the Progressive International, Grenada, Algeria, Russia and Rwanda.
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By Yaima Puig Meneses, translated from the Spanish
On the third day of the VI International Conference “Por el Equilibrio del Mundo” (“For World Balance”), which began on January 28 at the Havana Convention Center, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, spoke with several of the participants which brings together delegates from 98 countries.
He met first with Rander Peña, Vice President of International Affairs of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and they discussed the current challenges that lie ahead for the region, in the face of which it is increasingly necessary to strengthen regional integration and the mechanisms that exist for it.
Irene Montero, a member of the European Parliament for the Spanish left-wing party "Podemos", was then received by the Cuban Head of State, who noted the fact that Cuba's dialogue with the European Union has been maintained despite attempts to interrupt it.
For her part, the MEP, who is also a prominent women's rights activist, was interested in the current situation in Cuba as a result of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the government of the United States. She also commented on the consequences that the actions of the new Donald Trump administration could have on both Cuba and the world.
On Thursday morning, President Díaz-Canel also spoke with the U.S. writer, political scientist and activist David Adler, Co-General Coordinator of the Progressive International, who described the International Conference that is taking place in Havana as a transcendental space to share in the strategies of Cuban resistance in the face of the avalanche of pressure brought down upon on the island by his country, and how they can contribute to the region.
In this regard, the Cuban president stressed the importance of the joint efforts of our peoples to confront imperialist aggressions.
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party described Dessima Williams, president of the Senate of Grenada, with whom he has met on previous occasions, as "a true friend and sister of Cuba." "We are in the presence of a tireless fighter and defender of just causes," he said.
After thanking the Cuban President for to receiving her, Dessima Williams described this Conference as "very important" and decisive in addressing the imbalances that the world is currently experiencing.
In an exchange with Feitas Benlakehal, president of the Parliamentary Cuba Friendship Group in the National People's Assembly of Algeria, the Cuban Head of State highlighted the historic relations that unite the parties and parliaments of both nations, and affirmed the desire to continue strengthening and deepening them. He especially thanked the group for the support it has given in its regular denunciation of the blockade policy.
Díaz-Canel then met with Dmitri N. Novikov, first vice president of the International Relations Committee of the State Duma and coordinator of the Russia-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group. and commented on the ties of friendship and brotherhood that exist between Cuba and Russia.
After sending "an affectionate greeting to President Putin, the President of the Russian Duma and to all our Russian friends," Díaz-Canel praised the relations that exist between the two countries as excellent, a relationship which has allowed them to reach "important consensus on cooperation issues."
We are grateful, he said, for the constant denunciation of the blockade against Cuba and its inclusion in the list of nations allegedly sponsoring terrorism.
In his final meeting, the Cuban president spoke with Consolee Uwimana, vice president of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, whom he also thanked for the support given to the fight against the unjust blockade imposed by the U.S. government and for Cuba being removed from the list of nations allegedly sponsoring terrorism, not only by the Rwandan Parliament and government but also within the African Union.
These are facts, he stressed, that show the "historical ties that unite us and the common will to consolidate them."
In all these meetings, which lasted until the afternoon on Thursday, the President of the Republic was accompanied by Political Bureau member Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee, and Emilio Lozada García, head of its Department of International Relations.
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