Cuba presents draft final declaration of the NAM Summit
• Facilities for journalistic coverage

CUBA has presented the Coordination Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) with a draft final declaration to be discussed at the 14th Summit of this body in September.

A Cuban Foreign Ministry source confirmed to Prensa Latina today that the document has been handed over to representatives of the member countries at the UN headquarters in New York by Abelardo Moreno, deputy minister of foreign affairs on the island.

According to traditional NAM practice, the proposal is first reviewed by the Bureau, in charge of coordinating activities and the positions of the states represented in the movement.

The draft declaration was prepared by Cuba as the host nation for the upcoming meeting of heads of state and government of the Non-Aligned Movement and the country to assume the presidency of the group for the second time in its history.

The text covers essential issues related to the current dangerous international scenario at a juncture when positions must be adopted given U.S. foreign policy that favors the imposition of its views by force.

On the other hand, it was announced that journalists covering the Summit will have all the technical facilities for doing so.

The organizing committee has said that it is to provide 100 computers with Internet access and various points to link in with personal laptops with WiFi and physical connections.

The press is to have available international telephone lines and FAX services, on a commercial basis of prepaid telephone cards, which can be acquired at ETECSA outlets.

Journalists will have working spaces where, in addition to receiving signals from the Summit venue, they can attend press conferences which are to take place in the lower floor of the building.