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Appeal Fund for Financial assistance towards Cuba in the wake of Hurricanes Ike and Gustav

In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane Gustav and Ike in Cuba earlier this month, where huge thousands of homes were devastated with damages summing up to billions of dollars, the Malta Cuba Society has issued an Appeal Fund to collect financial proceeds as aid to the Cuban victims of the hurricane.  

This appeal is being made on the bases of ‘Ghaqda Malta-Kuba’ with the registration of the Commission for Voluntary Organisations  Malta  VO/0074

Contributions are accepted in both Euro and USD.   

Either as cheque addressed to, 'Ghaqda Malta-Kuba' 
sent via post to: 'Ghaqda Malta-Kuba', 14/8, Vincenti Buildings, Strait Street, Valletta, Malta'
or by crediting the appeal bank account with Bank of Valletta via Internet banking A/C No. 11003672013

Those wishing to enquire for further details should contact the Secretary via mobile 00356 79283716.

A receipt will be issued for all donations received.

In the name of the Cuban people the Malta Cuba Society wishes to thank all benefactors in advance.

Total Contributions collected : 685 Euros, which will now be sent to Cuba.

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International Conference of European Studies, Havana, Cuba

The Center for European Studies (CES) of Havana, Cuba, calls to the 15th International Conference on European Studies, to be held from November 25th to 28th 2008 in the conference rooms at this institution.

From their very first edition in 1993, the International Conferences of European Studies have allowed specialists and social scientists of the most diverse geographical and institutional origins to discuss a wide range of topics related to the current political, economical and social situation of Europe, as well as its impacts on other world areas.

As each of its previous editions, the 15th Conference will be the highest point of scientific activities promoted annually by the CES, especially during this edition dedicated to the Cuban-Europe relationship in a context of the 50th Cuban Revolution Anniversary Triumph.

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Press Release - Malta Cuba Society Launches Website 08/07/08

Malta Cuba Society has launched its official website. The website address is www.maltacuba.org.  The Society is a non-profit organisation, encouraging friendship, cultural exchanges and solidarity between the Maltese and Cuban peoples.

Malta Cuba's website includes official statements of Malta Cuba Society as well as cultural and political material relating to Cuba.  One can also join the Malta Cuba Society through this website.

Malta Cuba participates in Jose-Marti

For the second consecutive year, this July a group of Maltese will participate in the yearly Jose-Marti Brigade.  This is a Voluntary International Work Team where the participants  spend two weeks in Caimito - Havana, working and socialising with Cubans and people from all across Europe.

Din is-sena 3 membri ta` l-ghaqda Malta-Kuba telghu ghal 16 -il jum Kuba sabiex jaghmlu parti mill-brigada Jose` Marti.
 
Fost attivitajiet li kelna nsemmu:

  • hidma mal-poplu kuban kemm fil-kamp kif ukoll fl-ghelieqi tal-villagg ta` Caimito
  • konferenzi li jirrigwardjaw l-embargo, relazzjonijiet bejn Kuba u l-Istati Uniti, il-hajja f`Kuba,
  • laqghat mal-grupp taz-zghazagh kommunisti u l-grupp ghal harsien tar-revoluzzjoni.
  • visita` f`rifinerija taz-zejt gewwa l-provincja ta` Cienfuegos
  • visita f`poliklinika u dar ta` l-anzjani
  • kelna zjajjar kulturali fosthom tour Havana, Cienfuegos u Santa Klara
  • ghamilna wkoll zjajjar fil-muzew tar-revoluzzjoni, l-plaza della revolucion, il-muzew u t-tomba tar-revoluzzjonarju Ernesto Che Guevara.
  • kelna bosta attivitajien kulturali anke fil-kamp stess bhal; zfin kuban u lejliet kemm kubani kif ukoll internazzjonali
  • spiccajna bl-ahhar konferenza fejn iltqajna mal-familjari tal- 5 kubani arrestati f`miami.

Malta Cuba Launches Fund-Raising Campaign

The society has also launched a fund raising campaign to help support the voluntary work of Maltese participants in Cuba.  Those wishing to donate money for the brigade can do this either by sending a cheque or money order to Malta Cuba Society at 14/8 Vincenti Buildings, Strait Street, Valletta; or credit the Society's bank account number 11003672013 with BOV through internet banking.

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APPEAL FROM THE CUBAN INSTITUTE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PEOPLES 
To all Cubasolidarity organizations and friendship groups, To all friends of Cuba

Once again, the United Statesgovernment is displaying its double standards and its aggressive and genocidal anti-Cuba policy.

This time, it is trying to benefit in the media from the disaster caused by the passage of hurricanes Gustav and Ike through our country and Cuba’s supposed “intolerance” in not accepting supposed humanitarian gestures from the Bush administration.

With respect to that, our friends should know that:

The damages caused by these destructive hurricanes are extensive. According to preliminary estimates, losses total more than $5 billion, mostly in the areas of housing, electric power generation, communications, economic infrastructure and agriculture.
 
Cuba, with a long record of solidarity with numerous countries that have suffered from different natural disasters, has now begun to receive material help from many governments, international institutions and friends, which we urgently need and for which we are deeply grateful, including that which comes from or may come from honest friends and individuals in the United States.
 
However, as stated in the Verbal Note from the Cuban Interests Section in Washington delivered to the State Department of the United States of America this past September 14th, Cuba cannot accept a donation from a government that for almost 50 years has imposed a ruthless economic, commercial and financial blockade against our country. Even less so if the donation is made on the condition of inspections and internal assessments by that power, as unnecessary as they are unacceptable.

Cubadoes not need any gifts. As was stated in the abovementioned note, what it wants is to be able buy indispensable materials that U.S. companies normally export to other markets, and it is asking for authorization for a supply of these materials, as well as the credits that are normal in all commercial operations; that would make it possible to acquire materials and food that are not only necessary for facing the recovery from the severe damages caused by these hurricanes, but also contribute to replacing the necessary reserves of these resources, taking into account that the most dangerous months of the hurricane season are still to come.

The greatest humanitarian gesture that the U.S. government could make at this time is to definitively lift the blockade of Cuba, in line with the demand to dos so that has been made for decades by the immense majority of the international community and important, increasingly larger groups in U.S. society itself. If not, they should at least ease the blockade for the time period requested by Cuba(6 months); anything else would be pure propaganda and a serious case of double standards.

The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples calls on friends of Cuba throughout the world to demand that Washington demonstrate its supposed humanitarian vocation in a clear and concrete way; it calls on them to expose any attempt to benefit in the media from our country’s just and dignified position, and to continue to intensify the struggle against the genocidal, arbitrary and illegal blockade of Cuba.
 
Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples
Havana, September 1

STATEMENT BY THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

On 3rd September last, at 4:45 P.M., the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Thomas Shannon, delivered to the Head of the Interest Section of Cuba in Washington, Note Nº 646, which states “its deepest regret for the destruction caused by hurricane Gustav” and affirms that the United States would be prepared to “offer immediate and initial humanitarian assistance of relief supplies to the Cuban people through an appropriate international relief organization”. 

An identical Note was later sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the United States Interests Section in Havana.

In said Note, the U.S. Government also requests the Cuban Government to “allow a United States humanitarian assessment team to visit Cuba to inspect the affected areas to properly assess damage”.

On Saturday 6 September, at 8:55 A.M., the Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered to the State Department, through the Interests Section of Cuba in Washington, and simultaneously to the United States Interests Section in Havana, its Note Nº 1866 conveying its appreciation for the expressions of regret by the Government of the United States due to the destruction caused in our country by hurricane Gustav.

The Note also states that Cuba does not require the assistance of a humanitarian assessment team to assess the damage and needs, as it has a sufficient number of specialists, which practically have concluded that task.

The Note of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also expresses that if the Government of the United States is really willing to cooperate with the Cuban people in face of the tragedy of the hurricane, it is requested to allow the sale to Cuba of those materials considered indispensable and to suspend the restrictions that prevent U.S. companies from offering private commercial credits to our country for the purchase of food in the United States.

A widespread public debate has emerged during the last few hours in the United States regarding the position that should be adopted by the U.S. Government due to of the severe damage caused by hurricane Gustav in Cuba.

During the afternoon of 4 September, the Democratic Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama, requested the suspension, for no less than 90 days, of restrictions to travel, remittances and assistance by Cuban residents in the United States to their families in Cuba.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers that the restrictions to travel and send remittances by persons of Cuban origin residing in the United States should have never been applied. It is not Cuba but the United States who deprives persons of Cuban origin from the exercise of this right.

If these rights were to be returned to the Cubans as a result of humanitarian reasons, there would be no way to explain that said prohibition, equally unjust and discriminatory, would be retained for U.S. citizens.

Now, when the Eastern part of the country is already in hurricane watch as a result of the threat posed by hurricane Ike, as powerful as Gustav, Cuba reaffirms that, in all truth, the only correct and ethical action, in correspondence with International Law and the practically unanimous will of the U.N. General Assembly, would be to eliminate totally and permanently the ruthless and cruel economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed against our Motherland for almost half a century. It includes the persecution of Cuban commercial and financial operations in third countries and which, according to conservative calculations, causes yearly damages higher than those caused by hurricane Gustav.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, September 6 2008

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