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European Solidarity-With-Cuba Action Winds

Havana, Nov 22 (AIN) Members of 115 Solidarity-with-Cuba organizations from 21 European nations expressed their support of the island and agreed to continue fighting Washington’s blockade against the Caribbean nation.

The agreement was made in Luxembourg during the conclusion of the Meeting of European Organizations in Solidarity with Cuba sponsored by the Luxembourg-Cuba Friendship Association, according to Monday’s edition of the Trabajadores newspaper.

Hundreds of Europeans agreed to redouble solidarity efforts against Washington’s blockade and condemned the Bush administration’s recent measures against the island.

The participants also sent a message to Cuban President Fidel Castro wishing him a speedy recovery from his recent accidental fall and another message to the “Cuban Five,” reiterating members’ commitment to work for the release of those individuals from US prisons.

In a final declaration, a demand was made to the European Union and the rest of the continent to break free of Washington political grip and assume a position of dignity consistent with the interests of Europeans, peoples who consider themselves friends of Cuba.

Those present also expressed vigorous opposition to the hostile policy of President George W. Bush and asserted that a military attack against Cuba would be an attack against the world, and would not go unanswered.

The participants to the European solidarity meeting offered their full support for Cuba’s representation at the next World Social Forum to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil and called for an international solidarity action in Geneva to mark the upcoming UN Human Rights Commission meeting in that city.

Cuban Art Exhibited in the Dominican Republic

Havana, Nov 22 (AIN) Cuban and Dominican officials formally opened a Cuban art exhibit Monday in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. Work by Cubans Rensol Gonzalez, Luis Ulises Garcia and Michel Mirabal were unveiled in a ceremony attended by the Dominican Undersecretary of Culture, Sulamita Puig, and Cuba’s Deputy Culture Minister, Julio Ballester.

The exhibition is being held in the Cubania Cultural Center which celebrated its first anniversary on Saturday, according to Radio Havana Cuba’s web site.

The Dominican official pointed out that her government has the political will to approach all nations, and – in the case of Cuba – "there is a common history, we are part of the same peoples."

Carlos Rojas, Director of the Cubania Cultural Center said that the exhibition provides a new venue from which the most authentic representation of Cuban art can be continually presented.

Also present was the Cuban ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Omar Cordova, other members of the diplomatic corps and renowned Dominican cultural figures