CUBA, January 21, 2009. Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez is to conclude Wednesday her official visit to Cuba with a meeting with her country"s scholarship holders who are studying medicine in the island. Fernandez" agenda today includes a visit to the Latin American School of Medicine, and then she will travel to Venezuela to meet with her peer Hugo Chavez. The Argentinean head of State spoke out Tuesday for regional integration as an instrument of the Latin America revival in a period of changes worldwide. The stateswoman rejected the globalizing and homogeneous formulas, and called for her Latin American colleagues to demand specific ideas and actions of each culture. She stated that Latin America has hope of a new reality, thanks to the political will of governments like those of Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Fernandez also praised her presence in Cuba just the day of Barack Obama"s inauguration as a US President. The head of State closed a Seminar on Business Opportunities taking place for several days in this capital among business people from both countries. She talked for the need of integration, association and South-South cooperation as a fundamental element for a world that has changed and some people do not understand it was definitely. Fernandez said that her visit to Cuba and her presence in the seminar is a testimony of the new world and the beginning of a new stage in the Cuban-Argentinean relations. (Cubaminrex- PL)
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