HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 17 (ACN) Aware that in terms of integration and social economy the challenges are enormous in a world of unipolar crisis, more than 600 experts, academics and professionals of the cooperative sector, from 17 countries, are participating at the 15th International Convention of Cooperativism, Cooperat 2024.
Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, Cuban deputy prime minister; Ydael Perez Brito, minister of agriculture; Johana Odriozola Guitart, deputy minister of economy and planning; and Ramon Osmani Aguilar Betancourt, president of the agrifood commission of the Cuban Parliament, among others, attended the opening ceremony today at the Havana Convention Center, where the convention will be held until Thursday.
In his welcoming remarks, Carlos Cesar Torres Paez, president of the Organizing Committee, stressed the importance of this event, which includes seven scientific workshops in which experiences and challenges of cooperativism wil