The solemn ceremony was organized by the Cuban National Authority for the implementation of the Convention and was chaired by José Fidel Santana Núñez, Vice-Minister of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), Fermín Quiñones Sánchez, Director General of ACNU and Alba Guillén Campos, representative of the Director General of the Office of Environmental Regulation and Nuclear Safety.
The meeting served as an opportunity to announce some major upcoming tourism, trade and business events that will take place in Cuba in 2017.
CARIFESTA, is an international multicultural event organized by the countries of the Caribbean. The main purpose is to gather artists, musicians, authors, and to exhibit the folkloric and artistic manifestations of the Caribbean and Latin American region.
La XIV Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y Gobierno de la Alianza, celebrada el 5 de marzo en Caracas, nos dejó una Declaración que constituye una poderosa guía de acción para los tiempos que vive Nuestra América y para enfrentar los peligros que se ciernen sobre nuestros pueblos, especialmente para aquellos que por la voluntad ejercida en las urnas, se constituyeron en poder, y que ahora son acosados por las oligarquías, el imperialismo y sus instrumentos de dominación.
The 1996 Convention will enter into force for Cuba on 1 December 2017. Cuba is currently Party to one other Hague Convention, namely the 1993 Intercountry Adoption Convention.