Cuba to Achieve Millennium Goals
The Central American Parliament´s President (PARLACEN) Julio Palacios highlighted on Monday Cuba´s aim to reduce poverty, access to education and health and decrease of the infant mortality concerning the UN Millennium Goals.

"Cuba is the only country in the Caribbean and in Latin America that surpassed almost all areas of the Millennium Goals," Palacios declared to Prensa Latina on occasion of the parliamentarian summit that is in session in the Guatemalan capital.

The meeting that joins legislators of America, Europe and Africa has as a central issue the analysis of the contribution of the legislative organs to achieve UN goals.

The development goals try to reduce extreme poverty and hunger, achieve the universal primary teaching, decrease infant mortality, stop the spread of AIDS and support the environment.

In America Latina, only a few countries have been able to progress in that sense and others have even decreased since 2000, the PALACEN President declared.

More than 200 million people live in poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean.

Palacios announced the PARLACEN will present in the summit a proposal of strategic alliance among governments, integration parliaments, local legislative organs and society to achieve the UN goals.