The Day of the Cultural Diversity for the Dialogue and the Development, sponsored by the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey (OHCC), dedicates its fifth edition to the Palestinian people and its culture, to the peace and the respect among the peoples, to the 400 years after the Arab presence in Cuba, to the 36th anniversary of the Arab Associaton of Cuba (UAC) and the 21 of its Camagüeyan subsidiary.

The experiences and words of Mr. Ahmad Atta, First Secretary of the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Cuba, turned in nearby the reality of this country for a lot of time avoided in other parts of the world. “Palestine goes today through a difficult moment. A politician that the more Palestinians kill, better political position acquires, just won the elections in the nearby Israel.

“Achieving a support of the whole international community in the United Nations Organization has been difficult because the United States always uses the power of the veto to help its strategic ally. The case of Cuba is different, is exciting to see how a country with so many difficulties has always been firm, constant and invariable in its help to Palestine and its people”.

During the first day of the event, Dr. C. Rodrigo Álvarez Cambras, President of the Association of Friendship Cuban-Arab and President of Honor of the Arab Associaton of Cuba (UAC), gave a magisterial conference on the relations of friendship and collaboration between Cuba and the Arab world, and the current situation of this region.

Along with Álvarez Cambras, the Embassy of Palestine in Cuba and Dr.Sc. Rigoberto Menéndez Paredes, Director of the Ethnographic Museums of the Office of the Historian of Havana and of the Museum House of the Arab, received the Commemorative Medal 15th Anniversary of the OHCC.

In the frame of the contest was also delivered the Recognition Patrimonio Vivo 2015, which in this opportunity was in hands of the families Ramírez-Alfonso and Nápoles-Abreu of the town Vilató in Camagüey , for keeping alive the practice of making cassava, food of origin.

The European, Asiatic, Caribbean and African heredity, the last one concerning the International Day of Africa, to be held next May 25th, occupy the center of the debates and activities in each of the days of this Day of the Cultural Diversity.

Presentations of books, magazines and audio-visual, photographic exhibitis and of typical objects of several cultures, musical and dance activities whose principal protagonists will be the children like growers of the most diverse cultural legacies, and a traditional popular fair dedicated to the cassava next Sunday in the Rural Casino park are some of the proposals of the event.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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