Nicosia, Cyprus, November 6, 2026. – The Cuban ambassador to Cyprus, Rubén Pino Martínez, attended on Friday as a guest the commemorative evening for the centenary of the AKEL Party, an event that brought together hundreds of local participants and foreign attendees at the Strovolos Municipal Theater in this capital.
According to the Secretary General of AKEL, Stefanos Stefanou, in his welcoming speech, this was an evening that honored the century-old “history written with struggles, sacrifices, anxieties, dreams, and creativity”; this night was entirely dedicated to remembering the 100 years of existence, struggle, and service of the AKEL Party.
During the little over two hours of the ceremony, local attendees and representatives of foreign delegations invited to the commemoration accompanied the organizers “on that journey that began with the founding of the Communist Party in August 1926,” whose “history does not belong only to those who wrote it or who lived it, it belongs to working people, it belongs to our people. It belongs to our Cyprus,” proudly shared the Secretary General of the political group.
“One hundred years later, we remain faithful to those for whom our Party was founded: the workers, ordinary people, our people. It is for them that we have fought. It is for them that we will continue fighting, taking the thread of our history and carrying it into the future.”
In this way, Stefano Stefanou invited those present to continue together for the next hundred years, to take that path “for another world that is possible. A world without wars, exploitation, hunger, or inequality.”
A century of stories and experiences that today brought together, in a unique spot on this Mediterranean island, friends from different parts of the world who today “live” on this planet physically apart, but closely connected through the destinies of their peoples and their shared goals.
For Günter Pohl from Germany and Anita Ngyen Phuong, Ambassador of Vietnam to Italy, Malta, San Marino, and Cyprus (non-resident) —by the way, a graduate from Cuba—, their love and attachment to the “Island of Freedom” were not born from the Cuban diplomat who today shook their hands with particular warmth. That shared “feeling” rose above in the spirit of the centenary that brought the three of us together, and which we proudly shared.
Embassy of Cuba in Cyprus.