The meeting, held at the Mauricio Báez Club in this capital, was ratified by the Secretary General of this organization, Miguel Mejía, and the members of the political and national commissions were elected, all approved unanimously.
At the gathering, Mejía stated that the main principle of the MIU are values and urged its members to continue “believing in a broad, diverse and pluralistic unity”.
At the event, Chinese Embassy Council Minister Zhang Buxin read out a letter from that nation’s Communist Party, emphasizing the importance of its traditional friendly ties with MIU.
Likewise, he emphasized the “disposition to strengthen exchanges and deepen cooperation with his party in order to build together a new type of relations between the parties, characterized by the search for common ground over differences, mutual respect and mutual learning”.
The general secretary of the National Council of Trade Union Unity, Rafael Abreu, also spoke at the meeting, congratulating the militants of the partisan movement on their disciplined character and highlighting the presence of young people, which he considered important for the future of MIU and the country. .
Eventually, six resolutions were adopted, four of which were in solidarity with the peoples of Cuba, China, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and the rest were in line with Alliance policy and a call for world peace.
The ambassadors of Cuba and Nicaragua, Milagros Carina Soto and Iris Acuña respectively, attended the conclave along with dozens of activists from all regions of the country; the Charge d’Affaires of Venezuela, Iván Palermo; the First Secretary of China, Liu Kejun, and the Dominican Ambassador to Vietnam, Jaime Francisco Rodríguez.
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