Havana, October 17 (RHC) -- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has advocated for a new international order that is fair and democratic, which guarantees the balance of the world and the exercise of the right to development.

On the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the foreign minister stressed on the social network X the need for a new order that provides the common good and prosperity of all peoples.

Bruno Rodriguez reported through the social network that 8.4% of the world's population, some 670 million people, live in extreme poverty.

The commemoration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty dates back to October 17, 1987.

On that day, more than 100,000 people gathered at the Trocadero square in Paris, where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights had been signed in 1948, to pay tribute to the victims of extreme poverty, violence and hunger.  (Source:Prensa Latina)