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Cuba Offers Medical Training To Colombians Affected By Civil War
MAR Saturday 25TH 2017 posted by Morning Star
by WT Whitney Jr
THE communication that Cuba’s ambassador sent to the Commission for Followup, Impetus, and Verification in Colombia on March 13 was no routine matter.
Ambassador Jose Luis Ponce Caballero informed the commission of “the Cuban government’s offer of one thousand scholarships to pursue studies for a medical career in Cuba as [a] contribution to the process of implementation of the agreement in Havana and to the post-conflict.”
On November 24 2016 Colombia’s government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) signed an agreement ending decades of civil war.
The commission was a product of that agreement. Cuba’s offer of medical scholarships is symbolic of the nation’s enduring commitment to peace in Colombia. The country had already hosted the negotiations leading to the agreement, talks that stretched over four years.
More:
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-afaf-Cuba-offers-medical-training-to-Colombians-affected-by-civil-war#.WNevmDsrLIU
