Mayors of the World to Express Solidarity with Cuba
The 13th Meeting of Town Councils Cooperation and Solidarity with Havana, from 25 countries, will take place in the Cuban capital November 13-15, official sources said Sunday.

At least 400 delegates including mayors, vice mayors, city councilors and governors will attend the gathering and express their condemnation of the US blockade against Cuba, said Havana Provincial Assembly of the People’s Power (legislature) International Relations director Ramon Perdomo.

The council members will also demand immediate release of the Cuban Five, who have been unjustly held in US prisons despite the August decision of the appellate court declaring their trial and sentences null, Perdomo added.

The visit is part of celebrations for the 486th anniversary of the foundation of Havana on November 6, he said.

Havana is a member of the Inter-municipality Organization of Ibero-American Cities (OICI), established in the Cuban capital in 1938.

An OICI Congress in 1992 agreed to celebrate meetings of solidarity with Cuba as long as the US blockade against the Island is in force.