UNESCO’ Executive Council President to Arrive in Cuba

Havana, June 13, (RHC).- The president of UNESCO’s Executive Council, Olabiyi Babaloia Joseph Yai is expected to arrive in Cuba Sunday. Mr Yai and his accompanying delegation will remain in the country until June19th.

Joseph Yai who is also Benin’s Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO will be accompanied by his personal assistant Edmond Moukala and by UNESCO head of the International Dialogue Section of the agency Ali Moussa Iye, according to sources at the National Cultural Heritage Council.

On June 16 the visitors will attend the official inauguration of the Cuban Museum of the Slave Route and an Afro American exhibition named The Third Root. They will then tour the historical part of the central city of Matanzas and the Triumvirate Historical Site.

The latter one makes reference to the sugar plantation where the first slave revolt in the country took place back in November 1843. Today there stands a monument in memory of the historical event.

Joseph Yai and his delegation will also visit places of interest in the Cuban capital such as the International Film and Television School, the Center for African and Middle Eastern Studies, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Latin American School of Medicine and the Africa House.