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Cuban Vice President Highlights Success of Bolivia Summit on Climate Change

Cuban VP Esteban Lazo met with Cuban collaborators in the sister south american nations before returning home

BOLIVIA, April 24, 2010.— Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo Hernadez stressed the resounding success of the World Conference of the Peoples on Climate Change, held in this Bolivian city.

The top Cuban government official described the event as an excellent initiative by President Evo Morales, which consolidated his leading the world campaign for the rights of Mother Earth.

The Conference allowed sharing direct, open and constructive dialog with social, indigenous and scientific movements and organizations and with the peoples of the world to consider the real causes of climate change, an event of crucial importance and exceptional human sense, said Esteban Lazo in statements to PL news agency, before returning to Cuba.

Vice President Lazo addressed a panel on government-people dialog held during the closing session of the forum, in which he favored a new and fairer international order.

The Conference was attended by more than 35, 000 people, with 10, 000 of them representing all five continents and over 140 countries, including scientists and other personalities.

Hours before returning to Havana, Esteban Lazo met with Cuban diplomats and collaborators in the fields of health care and education as well as with social workers, currently working in Bolivia.

Following a meeting on the work and the contribution by the Cuban collaborators to Bolivia´s democratic and cultural revolution, the Cuban VP stressed the significance of that internationalist mission in the country where Cuban-Argentinean revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara gave his life.

Esteban Lazo also condemned the media campaign being orchestrated by the United States and Europe against Cuba and he blasted the double standard maintained by Washington in the case of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters held in US prisons since 1998.

(Cubaminrex-Juventud Rebelde)