[NYTr] President of Canary Islands Continues Visit to Cuba Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:49:40 -0600 (CST) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) http://ainch.ain.cu/mailman/listinfo/ingles President of Canary Islands Continues Visit to Cuba Havana, Nov 23 (acn) The president of the Spanish autonomy of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero, continues its official visit to Cuba on Friday with meetings with Cuban vice presidents Carlos Lage Davila and Jose Ramon Machado Ventura to check on the development of bilateral cooperation ties. The leader of this autonomy, one of the 17 in which the Spanish territory is currently divided, has a tight agenda that included the inauguration on Thursday of the Fourth Festival of Traditions of the Canary Islands in the Cuban capital. On this occasion, the visitor made a call to continue the traditional line of cooperation, solidarity and understanding between the Canary Islands and Cuba. During the 19th century, there was a numerous and sustained emigration of people from that Spanish archipelago to the Caribbean island, which is one of the main cultural and ethnographic roots of the Cuban nation. The Canary Islands, located near the north-east coasts of Africa, is comprised of seven major islands: El Hierro, La Gomera, La Palma and Tenerife, which form the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife; and Grand Canary, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, which form Las Palmas. Also part of the Canaries is the archipelago of Chinijo (comprised of La Graciosa, Alegranza, MontaC1a Clara, Roque del Este, Roque del Oeste and Isla de Lobos; all of them part of Las Palmas. This region is an important tourist destination that every year receives nearly 10 million visitors. * ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us Our main website: http://www.blythe.org List Archives: http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ Subscribe: http://blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr =================================================================