Melbourne, 28 July, 2023. The activities corresponding to the National Consultation in 2023 of the different branch representations of the Australia-Cuba Friendship Association, began with a meeting on Friday, July 28 at the headquarters of the Faculty of Arts of the prestigious University of Melbourne, whose program included a presentation on the Code of Families approved by more than six million Cubans in 2022 after consultations and popular referendum.
PhD. Mrs. Tanieris Diéguez La O, Cuban Ambassador to Australia, explained to those present the most relevant titles of this legal instrument and emphasized its importance as an inclusive code, according to the the present day Cuban society.
Mariannis Díaz Hernández, multi-awarded for the results of her research on cancer treatment and the development of Cuban vaccines against Covid-19, Soberana 1, Soberana 2, Soberana Plus and Abdala, as well as their pediatric variants, aroused great interest in the audience. Diaz Hernandez showed, by means of graphs, the development of the schemes foreseen for their application, as well as the acceptance and implementation of this Cuban product in several Latin American countries and in other regions in the world.
Diaz Hernandez also emphasized Cuba's achievement of being the first country in the world to implement pediatric vaccines for children under two years of age.
The Southern Cross Brigade and the solidarity work carried out in Australia in favor of Cuba, as well as the intervention of pedagogues in the literacy program for aboriginal groups through the Cuban method Yo Sí Puedo, were among the topics addressed by Iván Barreto López, an official from the Asia-Oceania Directorate of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
Another speaker, Sasha Guilles-Lekakis, who is doing his doctoral research on cooperation relations between Asia Pacific countries and Cuba, highlighted the support provided by the Antillean country in the training of doctors and specialists and the support of Cuban science in favor of improving the quality of life of patients with diabetes and cancer in that area.
Over the course of this weekend, July 29 and 30, 50 delegates of the Australia-Cuba Friendship Association from all over Australia will meet in Melbourne to take stock of the support that for more than three decades men and women from the southern country have been providing unconditional love and support to the largest of the Caribbean islands.
The Australia-Cuba Friendship Association focuses its mission in defense of Cuba and its Revolution, while raising funds for social and economic projects, and the constant denunciation of the cruel and genocidal blockade that the U.S. has implemented for more than six decades to the Cuban archipelago.
Edelmira Palacios