Closing of the V International Conference For the Balance of the World.    Photo: Prensa Latina.

Havana, January 28 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel evoked Saturday in Havana the legacy of José Martí, who perceived the need to globalize solidarity and dialogue in the face of nascent imperialism, promoter of hatred and human miseries.

During the closing ceremony of the 5th International Conference for the Balance of the World, held at the Convention Palace in the Cuban capital, the president called for plural dialogue, which promotes the forum of thought, in order to build a just and sustainable future, based on respect and unity among peoples.

On the 170th anniversary of the birth of our country's National Hero, Díaz Canel highlighted the validity of Marti's ideology, which posed solidarity as a premise and has remained as a principle of the Revolution, which has not been blocked.

"Sowing ideas and conscience continues to be the answer," said the Head of State in relation to the international meeting, which hosted necessary spaces to discuss issues such as the environment, gender equality, economy and regional integration.

"Today more than ever we need appropriate spaces to listen to each other, to reason collectively, to understand each other, to approach each other in everything we may have in common", he emphasized, while stressing the idea of globalizing the conscience of peace.

We are called to work in education, to build a world in balance, in peace, "we must impose dialogue over force and contribute to the formation of a way of thinking that allows us to face the challenges of the 21st century", he added.

We need to impose transparent dialogue before all those arrogant and arrogant positions, said the president of the largest of the Antilles, just before highlighting the Cuban people's vocation to serve, who, in the face of the COVID-19 health crisis, put all their scientific arsenal at the service of sister nations.

During the last hours of the meeting, the President participated in various activities of the program, such as the lecture by David Choquehuanca, Vice President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, who referred to the necessary return to achieve balance.

He also took part in the Congress of the New International Economic Order, in the act of cancellation of two commemorative stamps in honor of the Apostle and the presentation of the 25th Anniversary Medal of the Martiano Program to personalities from a dozen countries.

The agenda of the event included keynote lectures, a youth forum, the second colloquium of historians, a congress on the new international order and an intergovernmental panel to address climate change, and a meeting of Marti Chairs.

The political projection and Martí's anti-imperialist and decolonizing outlook, his ethical and humanist sense in all fields of human endeavor, including relations between countries, and the incarnation of his ideas by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, were addressed from different points of view.

In addition, participants discussed his literary creation, his conception of world balance not only in geopolitical, but also in social and cultural terms, and even his projection on contemporary issues that were barely addressed in his time, such as the care of nature or gender equality.