CubaMinrex. Sitio del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba

Cuban Delegation to World Festival of Youth and Students Travels to South Africa

CUBA, December 9th, 2010.- The Cuban delegation that will participate in the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students departed on Thursday from Havana’s José Martí International Airport, where they were seen off by the Minister of Higher Education, Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Students, workers, farmers, intellectuals, combatants and artists from Cuba as well as 27 youth from Haiti, Puerto Rico, Palestine, the Western Sahara and other countries, who study in Cuba, are travelling in the group that will attend the world event to be held in South Africa from December 13 to 21.

Also travelling with the delegation is Jorge Risquet Valdes, a founder of the movement of world festivals of youth and students.

The event will be dedicated to two of the greatest leaders of contemporary history: Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro, and it will condemn Washington’s almost 50-year-old economic blockade of Cuba.

The Festival will take place in Pretoria, one of the three most important South African cities, under the slogan “Let’s Defeat Imperialism, For a World of Peace, Solidarity and Social Transformation.”

The University of South Africa, also known as UNISA, will serve as venue for the majority of the event’s activities such as seminars, lectures, workshops, solidarity meetings, the Friendship Fair and the Anti-Imperialist Court, among others. (Cubaminrex-RHC)

<< Back