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Cuban Youth Congress underway
THIS
Thursday the Karl Marx Theater served as the venue
for a political-cultural gala that opened the 8th
Congress of the Young Communist League (UJC) and in
addition, was a tribute to the Revolutionary Armed
Forces (FAR) on its 48th anniversary.
The
gala was attended by Raúl Castro, minister of the
FAR; Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban
Parliament; Felipe Pérez Roque, foreign minister;
and Esteban Lazo, vice president, among others.
1,200 delegates and invited guests are attending the
Congress, which runs from today until December 5 at
the capital’s International Conference Center, with
discussions in six work commissions on issues
related to the work of the political organization.
The
UJC was founded in April 1962 and groups together
some 500,000 young people, and is an organization
whose working objectives are directed at all Cuban
youth.
It
has relations with sister organizations in 218
countries and is affiliated to the World Democratic
Youth Federation; it is likewise developing links
with another 14 international organizations.
An
open tribunal has been organized for Sunday and will
serve as a preliminary to the plenary session of all
the delegates. The congress closes on the same day.
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