[NYTr] Cuban Foreign Minister Winds Up UN Visit
 
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:15:37 -0500 (CDT)

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Cuban Foreign Minister Winds Up UN Visit

Havana, Sept 28 (acn) Cuban Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, and 
his accompanying delegation wrapped up Friday an intense working agenda 
in the United Nations.

During his stay in New York, Perez Roque gave an address on September 
24 to the High-level UN General Assembly meeting on Climate Change, 
convened by the UN Secretary General.

Likewise, Perez Roque spoke to the 62nd Session of the UN General 
Assembly representing the presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). 
His speech received widespread coverage in the international media.

Cuba rejected and denounced the words of the previous day from the 
president of the United States, during which the Cuban delegation 
walked out of the plenary hall of the UN General Assembly.

On Friday, Perez Roque presides over a meeting of foreign ministers of 
the Coordination Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement at which Cuba will 
report on its first year in the NAM presidency. Cuba assumed the 
representation of the 118-member organization at the 14th NAM Summit 
held in Havana in September 2006.

Also on Friday, the Cuban foreign minister meets with UN Secretary 
General Ban Ki-Moon.

Perez Roque also spoke on behalf of NAM at the ministerial meeting of 
the Group of 77 plus China and at the meeting commemorating the tenth 
anniversary of the entering into force of the "Convention on the 
Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of 
Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction", which also took place in 
New York.

In the role of NAM president, the Cuban delegation participated at the 
ministerial meeting of the Troikas of the Non-Aligned Movement and 
European Union. In that same function it was also present at the 
meeting of the NAM presidency with the Russian foreign minister, 
attended by other NAM Troika members, Malaysia and Egypt.

At the different meetings, the Non-Aligned Movement made its positions 
clear on a host of current international issues, with special emphasis 
on those to be tackled at the current UN General Assembly session which 
has just begun.

The NAM Ministerial Committee on Palestine also heard a special report 
from the Palestinian delegation and issued a declaration of solidarity 
with the Palestinian people.

The Cuban foreign minister met with top leaders of the Pacific Island 
nations, with which Cuba shares membership in the Alliance of Small 
Island States, and also joined the foreign ministers of Latin America, 
Spain and Portugal in a preparatory meeting for the upcoming 
Ibero-American Summit.

Likewise, Perez Roque held 17 bilateral meetings including those with 
the foreign ministers of China, Russia, India, Iran, Algeria, Spain and 
Mexico.

Of special importance for the Cuban delegation was the meeting with 
Cuba solidarity groups in New York in the framework of the current 
campaign to Free the Cuban Five. Leonard Weinglass, one of the Cuban 
Five's defense attorneys, brought participants up to date on the state 
of their appeal.
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