Havana, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will not participate in economic collaboration accompanied by conditions that intefere in its domestic affairs or oppose the principles of the Cuban Revolution, according to a resolution published in Havana Friday.

Cuban Foreign Investment and Economic Collaborations Resolution No. 15, issued by the Ministerial Council, was read and explained to Cuban deputies of the congressional Economic Committee.

The Cuban government decided not to accept any economic, political or social conditions that lead to intrusion in Cuban domestic affairs or go against the principles of the Revolution, nor that favour one sector of the population.

Resolution 15 states further that systems for social services or distribution of received resources from economic collaboration will always follow regulations established by the Cuban government.

The text was published May 26 in the Official Gazette, and the Economic Affairs Committee began sessions with an explanation by Assistant Agriculture Minister Maria del Carmen Perez on the situation of the main Cuban agricultural programs.

Deputies learned of production results, the economic and financial situation, and evolution of the ministry´s work.

The Cuban economy GDP grew in the first three-month period of 2006 by more than 11.8 percent, compared to 2005.

Saturday, the seventh Period of Sessions of the Sixth Legislature of the National Assembly of Peoples Power is scheduled to begin at the Havana Convention Center.





Cuba Educating World for Revolution

Havana, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) 'If we teach hundreds of millions to read and write, we´ll have hundreds of millions of revolutionaries to change the world,' said yesterday Cuban President Fidel Castro at the closing ceremony for the International Seminar on Literacy Policy and Programs in Havana.

He explained to the 700 delegates from 33 nations that there are 770 million illiterate people on the planet and 95.5 percent of them are from the Third World, but many millions are in the United States.

The leader attributed the centuries-old sacking of natural and human resources in Latin America to the demise of education for its people, wondering what interest the power elite would have in teaching them to read and write.

He compared the decline in late consumerist societies to current Cuba, which emphasizes its own independent history in educational policy, and cited Jose Marti and Simon Bolivar as two of its protagonists who sustain today´s integral policy of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas.

He said ethical values like independence and freedom are behind current programs like the Cuban physicians working all over the world, and said all countries need literacy campaigns, because they have no hope without education, health and justice.

Fidel Castro reminded Cuba has been working since 2003 on a literacy technique called Yo Sí Puedo (Yes I Can), which was recently nominated by several countries for UN recognition.

The 14th Summit of Non-Aligned Countries here in September will be an opportunity for the island to tell about its experience and strengths in this material, and the Literacy Seminar was confident there will be much to share.





Venezuela, Spain Form Aluminium Venture

Caracas, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Basic Industry and Mining Ministry and Spanish System Fuss will create a joint venture for processing aluminium by-products, the Bolivarian News Agency announced Friday.

Venezuelan Basic Industry and Mining Minister Victor Alvarez and Spanish representative Luis Alberto Galiana signed a letter of intention for the 100 million dollar project, which fundamental objective will be to recuperate slag, thus reducing the environmental impact caused by aluminium producing companies.

The plant will be located in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, with a capacity of 50,000 tons a year.

The Venezuelan government will have 51 percent of participation and System Fuss 49 percent of the venture that will generate 200 direct and 1,000 indirect jobs.

Five percent of the utilities will be destined to finance community projects.



Bolivia Wants Venezuela in CAN

La Paz, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian Minister of Foreign Relations David Choquehuanca encouraged attendance of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) Summit to be held next Tuesday in Quito.

Caracas says Chavez won´t go, but Choquehuanca says he could, especially considering what his country feels is a necessity to preserve the CAN and the friendship between Venezuela and Bolivia.

The leader of the latter, Evo Morales, will assume the CAN presidency at the Quito meeting.

Venezuela announced a pullout from that organization a few weeks ago, saying it was mortally wounded by the FTA´s signed by Colombia and Peru with the USA, undermining Andean integration.

On a recent trip to La Paz, Chavez proposed moving ahead with the Bolivarian Confederation of Nations, which Morales supported but asked him to put off Venezuela's departure from CAN.