Nicosia, Cyprus, May 1, 2026.- The Cuban ambassador to Cyprus, Rubén Pino Martínez, shared this Friday with the Cyprus Trade Union Confederation (PEO) the commemorative event for May 1st, International Workers' Day.
Accompanied by Sotiroulla Charalambous, General Secretary of PEO, Stefanos Stefanou, General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People of Cyprus (AKEL), and the Honorable Ambassador of the State of Palestine in Nicosia, Mr. Abdallah Attari, the Cuban diplomatic representation shared every moment of joy of this celebration of the world working class, alongside Cypriot workers.
A celebration to give thanks and also to share infinite solidarity with the Cuban people and government on the part of Pambis Kiritsis, General Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions, the General Secretary of AKEL, and the labor leader Sotiroulla Charalambous, who in their interventions clearly and bravely condemned the policy of blockade and the criminal energy siege imposed by the United States against Cuba.
Support was also celebrated in each and every one of the bands and banners that initiated this commemoration, as has been customary every May 1st from Liberty Square in Nicosia. It was a “being with Cuba” led by Eleni Evagorou, Secretary General of the Pan-Cypriot Women's Movement (POGO) and head of the Office for Gender Equality of the AKEL Party, also shared by the members of the Board of the Cyprus-Cuba Friendship Association, and many other trade union and Cypriot parliamentary leaders attending this celebration of the working class, who accompanied the Cuban diplomats throughout the day.
There was no need to translate into Greek or Turkish that #CubaIsNotAlone. It was a demand shared by each and every one of the speakers participating in this celebration of the Greco-Cypriot and Turco-Cypriot working class, and which was reaffirmed at the evening of reunion and common embrace, of shared heartbeats, experienced by thousands of islanders from one side or the other, right in the green zone of Nicosia, where the song for the rights of the working class on a global scale and on this Mediterranean island, multiplied in voices and songs in a common language: unity.
Embassy of Cuba in Cyprus.