Havana, September 19, 2024.- Topics of relevance to the international community such as the defense of human rights, peaceful solutions and the preservation of world peace were presented this Thursday, from an academic perspective of parliaments, at the First International Seminar on Parliamentary Diplomacy.
The event, which will run until Friday, took place in the National Capitol of Cuba, the institutional headquarters of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), with the representation of around twenty nations.
The event was established, according to Rogelio Sierra Díaz, Rector of the Higher Institute of International Relations, in the opening remarks, as a crucial space to analyze, with a high spirit of collaboration, "the challenges and opportunities that are currently faced with the aim of strengthening international law."
The special conference, led by the president of the Permanent Commission of International Relations of the ANPP and president of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament, Rolando González Patricio, focused on the myths and opportunities of parliamentary diplomacy.
Dialogue and understanding, legislative harmonization, integration, mobilization in the confrontation and mitigation of climate change, defense of democracy, defense of international law, defense of peace, said González Patricio, "accumulate more than enough reasons to attend to and exercise, carefully and conscientiously, what we now call parliamentary diplomacy on the road to a much better world."
The event was chaired by the member of the Political Bureau and president of the ANPP, Esteban Lazo Hernández; the First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Gerardo Peñalver Portal, and the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Fernando González Llort.
(Cubaminrex-Granma)