The Special Olympics winter games 2017 in Graz, Schladming and Ramsau are due to start on Tuesday, with the arrival of around 2,700 athletes.
The Special Olympics for the mentally impaired have been taking place for 55 years, based on an initiative by the Kennedys in 1962. The movement organises around 100,000 events in 170 countries every year.
Cuba wishes to highlight the importance of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as a Rector Agency of the United Nations for addressing of the Drug Global Problem. We support its central role in dealing with the drugs global problem that continues to be every time a more complex challenge produced by multiple causes. It damages health, social coexistence; it jeopardizes civic security, integrity of democratic institutions, public policies, development and economic activities. As a result, we believe that it should be faced in a comprehensive, balanced, multidisciplinary way under the principle of common and shared (but distinguished) responsibility.
The meeting held by the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to Austria, Mr. Juan Antonio Fernández Palacios and the Federal Minister of Education of this European country, PhD. Sonja Hammerschmid at the headquarters of the Austrian ministry, constituted an opportunity to ratify the will of both countries to continue strengthening the existing cooperation bonds in the educational sector through the extension of the bilateral MOU in force.
The Cuban Consulate in Austria is pleased to inform that, with the intention of providing a better service, in conditions of greater comfort and security to all the users, nationals and foreigners, it is ready to execute an important remodeling of its facilities at Kaisertrasse 84/1/3 (second floor), 1070 Wien. Such works shall take place from later this month of March until the mid-April, 2017.
Stated Cuba’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, Ileana Núñez on inaugurating the First Association of Caribbean States Cooperation Conference today, March 8 in Havana, emphasized the importance of cooperation to development.