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Cuban University Student Federation
congress ends
HAVANA, December 20 (PL) .— The 7th Congress of the
Federation of University Students (FEU) ends today
with a plenary session, elections for the National
Secretariat and the approval of new statutes and
regulations for the organization.
The
plenary at the capital’s International Convention
Center will discuss the central report to Congress,
as well as reports from seven working commissions
that met last night in various venues located in
Havana institutions of higher learning.
The issues discussed were “University students for
defense of the homeland,” “A FEU that is
grass-roots, with a profound social vocation,” “The
FEU in every corner of the country,” “Internal
functioning,” and “Competent professionals with an
elevated universal culture.”
Other discussions took up “Healthy, cultured, useful
utilization of leisure time,” and “University
students in defense of humanity.”
Today, moreover, the first meeting of the FEU’s new
National Secretariat is set to take place, as well
as other collateral activities.
The Congress closing is scheduled for this
afternoon, to be followed by a gala event saluting
the 84th anniversary of the FEU, at the University
of Information Science (UCI) in the capital.
The Congress culminates a nine-month process that
included broad participation by university students
in assemblies held in every university classroom in
the country.
The commitment of university students to the future
of Cuba and its Revolution, as well as solidarity
with other nations in the world, have characterized
all of the debates and discussions at this event.
The young people expressed their decision to
continue contributing to the assurance of the
country’s present and future, in line with President
Fidel Castro’s appeal at the Aula Magna of the
University of Havana on November 17, 2005.
The congress reaffirmed solidarity with the Cuban
Five, imprisoned for more than eight years in the
United States for attempting to forestall terrorist
actions by counterrevolutionary groups based in
Florida, which have caused more than 3,500 deaths
among the island’s population.
(Translated by Granma International) |
