Showing posts with label Cuba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuba. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Cuba announce team for volleyball World League

HAVANA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- The Cuban Federation of Volleyball announces on Tuesday that Cuban central and captain Roberlandy Simon leads the national team to represent Cuba at the 20th World League of Volleyball.


The list includes 19 players, among them are central Delvis Dominico, Osmany Camejo, Darien Ferrer and David de la Torre.


The auxiliars are Yoandry Leal, Miguel Dalmau, Henry Bell, Wilfredo Leon and Leonardo Leyva, while the opposes are Raydel Delgado, Rolando Cepeda, Michale Sanchez and Fernando Hernandez.


The throwers will be estn Raydel Hierrezuelo, Yoandri Diaz and Lian Sem Estrada, with the sweepers Gustavo Alvarez and Keibel Gutierrez.


Coach of the team Orlando Samuels announced that the team will travel to Argentina in the coming days to play against a local team between May 16 and 29.


Cuba will debut against Bulgaria on June 12 here, as part of the group "C" in the competition, which also is formed by Russia and Japan.


The Group "A" is formed by U.S., Italy, China and Holland, the "B" is formed by Serbia, France, South Korea and Argentina, while the "D" is formed by Brazil, Poland, Finland and Venezuela.


In the last edition U.S. won the Cup, followed by Serbia and Russia, while Cuba was not able to pass from the first round.


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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Non-Aligned Movement meets in Cuba

Foreign ministers and high-level diplomats from more than 120 countries are in the Cuban capital Havana for a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement, or NAM.






Cuba'sForeignMinisterBrunoRodriguezaddressestheaudienceduringtheopeningofaministerialmeetingoftheNon-AlignedMovementsummitinHavanaApril27,2009.REUTERS/EnriqueDeLaOsa

Cuba'sForeignMinisterBrunoRodriguezaddressesthe
audienceduringtheopeningofaministerialmeeting
oftheNon-AlignedMovementsummitinHavanaApril27,
2009.REUTERS/EnriqueDeLaOsa


The meeting is being held to organize the 15th NAM Summit to be held in Egypt in July. Over the last four weeks, diplomats have met in New York preparing the Final Declaration document.


This will be signed in Havana by the end of this week. The document contains the NAM's working guidelines and reaffirms its policies.


It includes an assessment on the current international situation.


And, it deals with other issues like de-colonization and self-determination processes, regional conflicts, human rights, migration, drug trafficking, disarmament and natural resources.