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Call for African Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba Launched in Press Conference.

CUBA, May 18, 2011.- A call for the Fourth Regional Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba in Africa, to be held in September 2012, was launched during a press conference in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.

In order to continue with a tradition initiated in South Africa, passed on to Ghana, and recently to Angola, the event will take place in Ethiopia, the only country in Africa that was not colonized, reports Prensa Latina news agency.

The vice president of the Cuban Friendship Institute for Africa and Asia, Alicia Corredera, and the president of the Association of Friendship between Cuba and Ethiopia, Getashew Emop, made the announcement in the presence of officials from the Ethiopian People’s Democratic Front and the Cuban diplomatic mission to Addis Abeba.

Also present during the press conference were executives of the Friendship Association, political figures in Addis Abeba, and other personalities like Adanech Mekonen, an Ethiopian that studied in Havana.

The Cuban ambassador to Ethiopia, Clara Pulido, pointed out that one of the reasons for holding this event with Cuba in Addis Abeba is the large number of friends the Caribbean nation has there, including the more than 4,000 professional trained in Cuban institutions.

In addition, she noted the excellent bilateral relations between the two countries and the fact that Addis Abeba acts as the political capital in Africa given that it hosts the most important subregional organizations and that of the system of the United Nations in the continent. (Cubaminrex-Cuban News Agency)