Panama, Jul 7 (Prensa Latina) Latin American and Caribbean legislators will meet today in Panama to boost the world campaign for the release of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in United States.
Cuban Peoples' Power National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon is attending, as well as the Presidents of the Parliaments of Panama, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
The agenda of the gathering includes three points: solidarity with Cuba, recognition and defense of its achievements in the 50th anniversary of the Revolution and, as a main issue, the struggle for the release of the five Cubans unjustly held in US jails since September 12, 1998.
Also on the list is to analyze actions to develop by legislative groups of friendship and parliaments to favor the freedom of the Five and fair treatment of their relatives.
Cuban Deputy Magalys Llort, mother of one of the Five, Fernando Gonzalez, will attend the forum.
The meeting was convoked by the Panama National Assembly at the request of the Panama-Cuba Interparliamentary Friendship Group, presided over by Deputy Carlos Alvarado, who died Thursday night of a heart disease he had long suffered.
In his first statements in Panama, Alarcon paid tribute to Alvarado, from the governing Democratic Revolutionary Party, for his permanent solidarity work with Cuba.
According to the agenda, the meeting's closing ceremony will be run by Panama Deputies National Assembly president Pedro Miguel Gonzalez, who welcomed Alarcon at the airport.
