Havana: The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, today highlighted the 73rd anniversary of the ties between the Island and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Prensa Latina publishes.
The head of state recalled the fact in his profile on the social network Twitter, where he affirmed that the Greatest of the Antilles ratifies its commitment to that international organization with which there is a “historical relationship.”
Similarly, he recalled that in the more than seven decades of ties, many are the programs and projects developed jointly.
The island’s ambassador to that multilateral organization, Yahima Esquivel, issued a statement this Saturday regarding the anniversary in which she recounted how the ties between UNESCO and Cuba were strengthened after the triumph of the Revolution in 1959.
Esquivel recalled the speech of the historical leader of the revolutionary process Fidel Castro in a meeting of the Executive Council of UNESCO in March 1995, when he ratified the full identification of the social project of the Caribbean nation with the constitutive ideals of the specialized entity of the Organization of the United Nations (UN by is English initials).
Since then, the organization has become a space to publicize Cuba’s achievements and progress in the fields of education, culture, science and communication, the diplomat specified.
