In the context of the third day of the 6th International Conference For the Balance of the World, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, held talks with several participants in this world meeting, which brings together delegates from 98 countries, at the Havana Convention Palace.
The first of these meetings was with Rander Peña, vice-president of International Affairs of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), during which they exchanged on the current challenges facing the region, in view of which it is increasingly necessary to strengthen integration and the mechanisms that exist for this purpose.
Irene Montero, member of the European Parliament for the left-wing Spanish party Podemos, was then received by the Head of State, who highlighted the fact that Cuba's dialogue with the European Union has been maintained, despite attempts to interrupt it.
For her part, the MEP, who is also a prominent activist for women's rights, was interested in the current situation the island is going through as a result of the blockade imposed by the U.S. government.
She commented on the consequences that the actions of Donald Trump's new administration could bring both to Cuba and to the world.
On Thursday morning, President Díaz-Canel also spoke with U.S. writer, political scientist and activist David Adler, general coordinator of the Progressive International, who described the International Conference as a transcendental space to share the strategies of Cuban resistance to the avalanches of pressure coming to the island from his country, which can contribute a lot to the region.
In this regard, the Cuban leader stressed the importance of joining efforts to enable our peoples to face imperialist aggressions.
As "a true friend and sister of Cuba" the Cuban leader called Dessima Williams, president of the Senate of Grenada, with whom he has met on previous occasions. "We are in the presence of a tireless fighter and defender of just causes," he said.
After expressing her gratitude for the opportunity to be received by the Cuban President, Dessima Williams considered this Conference "very important" and decisive to face the imbalances that the world is currently experiencing.
Díaz-Canel then exchanged with Feitas Benlakehal, president of the Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Cuba in the National People's Assembly of Algeria, and highlighted the historic relations that unite the parties and parliaments of both nations, and ratified the will to continue strengthening and deepening them.
The Cuban President then commented on the ties of friendship and brotherhood that exist between Cuba and Russia to Dmitri N. Novikov, First Deputy Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the State Duma and Coordinator of the Russia-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group.
After sending "an affectionate greeting to President Putin, to the President of the Russian Duma and to all our Russian friends," Díaz-Canel valued as excellent the relations that exist between the two countries, which has allowed reaching "important consensus on cooperation issues.
We are grateful, he said, for the constant denunciation of the blockade against Cuba and its inclusion in the list of nations allegedly sponsoring terrorism.
As a culmination of the meetings, the Cuban leader spoke with Consolee Uwimana, vice-president of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, to whom he also thanked for the support given to the struggle against the unjust blockade imposed by the U.S. government and for Cuba to be excluded from the list of nations allegedly sponsoring terrorism, not only by the Parliament and the Rwandan government, but also within the African Union.
These are facts, he underlined, which show the "historical ties that unite us and the common will to consolidate them."
In all these meetings, the President of the Republic was accompanied by the member of the Political Bureau, Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee, and by Emilio Lozada García, head of its International Relations Department.
