Havana, October 19, 2019.- The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, will start on sunday an official visit of european countries, which will include Ireland, the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation. It will also attend the XVIII Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which will take place in Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan, on the 25th and 26th of this month.
The Cuban President will hold official conversations with his counterparts in the countries visited and carry out other activities.
In context
Cuba was the only country in the Latin American and Caribbean region that participated in the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement held in Belgrade, the capital of the then Yugoslavia, in 1961.
The solid organization of the so-called Third World was created in September 1961. Cuba was among its founders, with the prestige of having annihilated, just five months before and in less than 72 hours, an invasion organized by the Central Intelligence Agency of the Government of United States (CIA).
Cuba has chaired the NAM from 1979 to 1983 and from 2006 to 2009.
"The struggle for peace and for a just economic order, for an adequate solution to the crippling problems that affect our peoples becomes, in our view, increasingly, the fundamental issue of the Non-Aligned Movement," he said. Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz at the opening session of the VI Summit of the Havana NAM on September 3, 1979.
(Cubaminrex - Granma)