Oslo, Norway.- Members of the board of the Norwegian-Cuba Friendship Association, headed by its president Cihan Karakoc, took part in this XIX meeting, excited about the possibility of exchanging experiences with their peers in the Old Continent.
Fernando González Llort, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP) and Angel Arzuaga, deputy coordinator of the International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, presided over the virtual event from Havana. The meeting served to ratify the support for the Caribbean country, with emphasis on the condemnation of the blockade and the anti-Cuban actions in the European Parliament, an issue addressed by Yolanda Ferrer, President of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Cuban National Assembly.
Members of the Associations of Friendship with Cuba also spoke from Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Belarus, Ukraine, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria, Greece, Turkey, the Netherlands, among many other nations of the continent.
The event also served to provide information to the participants on the advances in Cuban vaccine candidates against Covid19, by Dr. Eulogio Pimentel, of the BioCubaFarma Group; and on the extraterritorial effects of the embargo on Europe and Cuba-U.S. relations, by Johana Tablada, deputy director general in the U.S. division of the Cuban Foreign Ministry.
Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, addressed the results of the recent 8th Congress of the CPC.
The XIX European Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba was scheduled for 2020 in Moscow, moved to the present year. The continued impact of the pandemic demanded a second rescheduling for 2022. (Embacuba Norway – With information from Siempre con Cuba/ICAP)
