Mrs. President:
We are so happy and take comfort in the fact that the United Nations General Assembly is convening a peace summit, and that such summit has been named after Nelson Mandela.
Less than 30 years ago, beloved Madiba was a political prisoner in the apartheid jails, serving a life sentence as a result of his noble struggle for justice and equality among all men and women in South Africa, where a white minority was subjecting the black majority to the scorn of segregation.
The first Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Ambassador Ana Teresita González Fraga, met with a group of Cubans living in the United Kingdom during an official visit to that country.
During the meeting, held at the Residency of the island's Ambassador to London, the high official praised the role played by Cubans living abroad in the defense of the homeland. González also highlighted their support for the struggle to lift the blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba.
This morning, the Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ana Teresita González Fraga was received at the London headquarters of the British-Irish Union UNITE by Rob Miller, Director of the Solidarity Campaign with #Cuba (CSC) and by a broad representation of its board of directors, members of important unions and friends in solidarity.