The Executive Secretary of the World Peace Council, Iraklis Tsavdaridis, called today to eliminate the illegal naval base that the United States maintains in the easternmost province of Cuba.
The above emerged at the inauguration of the VIII International Seminar for Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Bases, which is held in Guantanamo every two years.
The governor of Guantánamo, Alis Azahares Torreblanca, the member of the Provincial Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba, Zenia Lores Méndez, the Hero of the Republic of Cuba and president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (Icap), Fernando González Llort, participate in the event.
More than 90 delegates participate in the event, including about 70 foreigners from about 25 countries, participating in the event sponsored by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP) and the World Council for Peace.
The meeting opens a new chapter this Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5 in Guantánamo, a province from where voices will once again join together against the conflagrations and the presence and proliferation of these warlike enclaves, a perennial threat to life on the planet.
The cessation of the genocide practiced by Israel against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the lifting of the criminal economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States government on Cuba for more than six decades and the return of the territory it occupies The illegal Yankee base in Guantánamo Bay are among the claims that will mark the course of the biannual conclave.
The demands include the withdrawal of Cuba from the spurious list of countries sponsoring terrorism, said Ana Teresa Nápoles Disotuard, ICAP delegate in the eastern province.
Today Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian medical student, denounced the crime that Israel perpetrates against its people and thanked the island for its solidarity, which has held events and marches to demand an end to the bombings.
The forum, which will conclude on Sunday in Caimanera with the reading of the Final Declaration, hosts conferences, presentations and discussions, as well as audiovisual screenings related to peace.
