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CUBA: HOST OF THE INTERNATIONAL EVENT FOR THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNESCO PROGRAM “ROUTES OF ENSLAVED PEOPLES”

Paris, August 21, 2024. With the participation of prominent personalities, Cuba hosts the international event “New narratives: memory, resistance and vindication” to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the UNESCO program “Routes of Enslaved Peoples: Resistance, Liberty and Heritage”, which will take place between August 21 and 23. Figures such as the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka, and the prestigious Senegalese jurist and expert, Doudou Diène, member of the International Scientific Committee of the program, attend the important event.

DESPITE THE BLOCKADE AND AGGRESSIVE MEASURES OF THE US GOVERNMENT, CUBA SHOWS SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS AND IMPROVES ITS EDUCATION SYSTEM

Paris, August 6, 2024. The “Casa Cuba” in Tremblay, France, offered an important space to discuss Cuba’s achievements in education. In her presentation on the subject, Dr. Silvia María Navarro Quintero, General Director of the Central Institute of Pedagogical Sciences, masterfully described the conception and development of the different levels of education in the country, from early childhood education to higher education, including special education, technical and professional education, adult education, and pedagogical training.

AMBASSADOR OF CUBA TO UNESCO DENOUNCES NEGATIVE IMPACT OF UNJUST PRESENCE OF CUBA ON THE LIST OF COUNTRIES SPONSORING TERRORISM

Paris, August 6, 2024. The Cuban Ambassador to UNESCO, María del Carmen Herrera Caseiro, denounced the especially harmful effects for the Cuban economy and people derived from the unjust inclusion of her country in the arbitrary list of States supposedly sponsoring terrorism. "The unjustified presence of Cuba on the list aggravates the impact of the blockade that has intensified to unprecedented levels in recent years, hinders all financial and commercial transactions, the implementation of cooperation programs...", expressed the Cuban diplomat in the presentation she made in the “Cuba House” in Tremblay, France.

The blockade and the unjust presence of Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism hinder the country's efforts in the sphere of education and cooperation with UNESCO

Paris, August 1, 2024. The assistant director general of UNESCO for Education, Stefania Giannini, received in Paris the general director of the Central Institute of Pedagogical Sciences of Cuba, Dr. Silvia María Navarro Quintero. The Cuban ambassador to UNESCO María del Carmen Herrera Caseiro also participated. It was widely addressed the negative impact of the hostile policy of the US government towards Cuba, highlighting the especially harmful effects of the unjust inclusion of the Island on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.

UNESCO: CALLS CONTINUE TO REMOVE CUBA FROM THE LIST OF COUNTRIES ALLEGED SPONSORS OF TERRORISM

“The delegations of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Nicaragua and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela accredited to UNESCO demand the exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism

“In that sense, we reaffirm the Declaration of the XXIII Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) held in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 24 of 2024, which is attached, in particular its paragraphs 8 and 9”.

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