Ethio-Cuba Friendship Park, which dates back to the 1970s, was renovated in 2017 by Addis Ababa City Administration in order to make it accessible to the public
ADDIS ABABA (Prensa Latina)―Cuba is willing to defend its historic friendship with Ethiopia in any front and in all possible ways, Ramon Espinosa, Deputy Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, said in Addis Ababa.
During an emotional mass rally at the Ethio-Cuba Friendship Park, in downtown Addis Ababa, celebrations and remembrance for the 40th anniversary of the victory of Karramara and the beginning of the educational program for Ethiopians in Cuba were closed.
The blood that fertilized our relations is the greatest of all prides for a revolutionary process that since its beginning has worked for the integration and progress of the least developed countries, Espinosa said.
I take this nation in my heart; the infinite sacrifice of our parents was not in vain, said Tays Hernandez, daughter of one of the 163 Cuban fighters who fell in the Ogaden war, while fighting to stop the Somali advance in these lands in the 1970s.
For his part, Jose Izquierdo, a professor of dozens of Ethiopians who attended Countryside Boarding Schools in Cuba, noted that it is a pleasure to see that the seeds that one day fell in our hands are now men and women of good, who contribute their knowledge and skills to the development of their society.
The president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Fernando Gonzalez, urged to continue working to make this friendship an example for other countries in search for a better world.
You have been vital on the path of this formidable relationship, Cuban Ambassador to Addis Ababa Vilma Thomas said.
When the history of the ties is written, there is no doubt that the experience of the Ethiopian youths who studied in Cuba is one of the major pages and they inexorably are part of the legacy of Fidel Castro’s thought in Africa, Thomas said.
In 2017, Addis Ababa City Administration had renovated the Ethio-Cuba Friendship Park in two phases of construction with a 36.4 million cost and made the park accessible to the public. The Addis Ababa Beautification and Parks Development Administration Agency manages the park.
Source: Prensa Latina