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JOSE Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, met yesterday with Miguel d’Escoto, president of the 63rd Session of the UN General Assembly, who is on a working visit to Cuba.
Machado Ventura receives Miguel d’EscotoDuring the
freshwater pearl meeting, Machado Ventura congratulated the Nicaraguan revolutionary priest on his courage in using his position to confront the hypocritical policy of imperialism and thanked him for his support for initiatives undertaken during Cuba’s presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement.
ORDER OF SOLIDARITY
This Thursday, the Cuban first vice president decorated Miguel d’Escoto with the Order of Solidarity, conferred by the Council of State on the proposal of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), in a ceremony at the José Martí Memorial in Plaza de la Revolución.
The ceremony was also led by Jorge Martí Martínez, head of the International Relations Department of the Central Committee, and Kenia Serrano Puig, president of ICAP, who read out the Council of State resolution, which highlights the visitor’s political and
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On receiving the distinction and after placing a wreath at the monument to Cuba’s national hero, D’Escoto said that he felt moved at the recognition of what he considered his raison d’être as a priest and as a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
He expressed his gratitude for having been a witness to the Cuban Revolution and having known for a long time its leader, Fidel Castro, "who has always been a tremendous inspiration for me."
Speaking on the current situation in Latin America, he affirmed that the dream of Bolívar is now a concrete task that is being made a reality via the
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Also present at the ceremony were Armando Hart Dávalos, director of the Martí Program Office attached to the Council of State; Luis Cabrera González, Nicaraguan ambassador in Havana; and Marcelino Medina González, acting minister of foreign affairs, with whom D’Escoto met in the morning.