Cubans Urged To Gear Up For
Global Social Catastrophes
HAVANA - The vice president of the Council
of Ministers of Cuba, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz,
Saturday urged his fellow countrymen to get
ready to face social disasters occurring in
the world such as poverty and unemployment.
"Climate change is changing the world, but
we can not forget that in the 21st century
our planet is convulsing essentially due to
the social catastrophe," he said.
Cabrisas was addressing the closing session
of an international meeting on disaster and
firemen, which drew 400 delegates from 37
countries.
Cabrisas Ruiz stressed that millions of
people around the world are subjected to
poverty, unemployment, hunger, illiteracy
and other forms of discrimination and social
exclusion.
He added that it can give the idea of the
magnitude of the social catastrophe.
The Cuban leader noted that the gap
separating rich and poor countries is
scandalous in terms of the levels of income
and human poverty, but he assured that it is
even greater concerning the knowledge
generation, science, technology and
innovation. |
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