Cuban Parliament to
General Session
Cuban National Assembly
President Ricardo
Alarcon called Friday
for the first general
session in 2008 of this
body, called Peoples'
Power.
The 163 deputies elected
in January took their
positions in February,
and this seventh
legislature is slated
until 2013.
The call issued by
Alarcon and published by
mass media is supported
in attributions
conferred to his post
included in the 1976
Republic Constitution's
article 81 paragraph b.
According to the text,
legislators are expected
to meet within two weeks
at 10:00 local time in
the Havana's
International Conference
Center.
As part of the agenda,
parliamentarians must
officially approve the
functioning of 12
permanent working
commissions, which were
created provisionally in
May.
Those groups are
Attention to services,
health and sports,
Attention to youth,
childhood and equality
of women's rights,
Education, culture,
science and technology,
Local bodies of peoples'
power and National
Defense.
Also on the list are
International relations,
Constitutional and
judiciary affairs,
Economic affairs, and
Industry and
construction, to include
this time Agricultural
Food, and Energy and
environment.
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