Havana, April 29.- The president of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC), Oscar Luis Hung, today urged the promotion of strategies with long-term perspectives to promote the development of the countries of the South.
Hung stated that it is urgent to move from theory to action, with the aim of ensuring global survival, during the opening of the 50th Anniversary Congress on the New International Economic Order (NIEO).
The Foreign Minister of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, and the former President of Colombia Ernesto Samper, among other academic diplomats and political leaders, participate in the event inaugurated in the South Chamber of the National Capitol.
Convened by the Progressive International and the ANEC, the Congress will be the second of its kind in Havana, after the one held in January 2023 under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) of the host country.
The meeting will take place until tomorrow, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the approval by the United Nations General Assembly of the declaration and program of action on the establishment of the NIEO.
That event constituted a milestone in the struggle of the countries of the South for international economic justice and for their development, MINREX recalled on its website.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the forum has the purpose of promoting dialogue around the problems that hinder development and world peace, as a consequence of an unbalanced international economic, political, scientific-technological and military order with hegemonic preponderances.
In its final declaration, the first Congress noted that the current vision of the NIEO can only be realized through collective action from the South and the formation of new and alternative institutions to share critical technology, address sovereign debt, boost development finance and confront together future pandemics. (Text and photo: PL)
