Preparation Committee for Students' World Festival Gets to Work in Havana

February 28, 2001 - 0:0
HAVANA Comprised by students and youth organizations in Cuba, the National Preparatory Committee of the 25 World Festival of Youth and Students to take place in Argelia on August was created in Havana. Peace and security, neo-liberal globalization and development, democracy, human rights and social justice will be some of the topics to be debated by the festival's delegates, said the State TV. As is usual in this kind of celebrations, for the first time in an African country there will also be an anti-imperialist court. "The third world suffers the most from neo-liberal globalization Africa is a distinctive example of what is happening in the world," said Young Communist League Prime Secretary Otto Rivero. The organization leads the local preparatory committee. The Cuban delegation to the first students festival of the millennium will be formed by about 300 young people who will represent different sectors of society. The august 2001 world meeting in Argelia will be attended by more than 30,000 delegates from all over the world that is also expected to restate the political will of leftist youth to continue having these international meetings. (IRNA)