The Cuban Vice President and chief of delegation, Carlos Lage, told press that the Haitian issue is a very important point discuss in the Summit’s agenda and some countries have different positions.

Haiti has been abandoned to its fate since the military occupation of 1994. There has not been more aid for this country. United States and Europe suspended all type of aid and sanctioned this country, Lage said.

The US and Europe found any excuse and suspended all aid to a country that needs help, cooperation and not being occupied by foreign armies, according to Lage.

Cuba -on the contrary- is modestly contributing almost secretly with a contingent of medical staff to assist some six million Haitian people, the vice president recalled. This cooperation would only be an example that it not just a problem of resources but of political will, he added.

Lage said that the importance of this summit lies in the fact that delegates can deeply analyze the issues presented including education as the essential point of the event plus terrorism.

The Cuban vice president recalled that there are some 42 million illiterates and 110 million semi-illiterates, equivalent to almost a third part of the people from the region.

The chief of the Cuban delegation to the Summit said that his country is against all types of terrorism and denounced the pardon given by ex Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso to four criminals who were plotting to assassinate President Fidel Castro in Panama in 2000.