Ambassador Gerardo Peñalver, leading the island’s delegation in the meeting, thanked the condolences expressed here for the death of scientist Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart.

‘I take the opportunity to, on behalf of the Cuban government, relatives and friends of brilliant scientist Dr. Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, thank JINR representative, Viktor Matveev, his heartfelt condolences on the occasion of the death of the tireless fighter for the development of the collaboration between Cuba and that institution,’ he stressed.

The diplomat said that to be a member of this prestigious international institution is an opportunity for his country to develop first-level leaders and scientific professionals who promote the national plans of science, technology and innovation.

It also allows Cuba to contribute modestly to the scientific projects included in the strategic development plan of the aforementioned institute, in which our collaborators also participate, he said.

The progress achieved by JINR have a worldwide recognition, as is the case of the discovery of new elements of the Mendeleev periodic table (from 113 to 118), the heavy ion plant, the Baykal project, and the NICA project (in Dubna), Peñalver stressed.

There are more young people every day from different countries in the world who want to come to work in this institution, said the Cuban ambassador, who wished JINR a lot of successes to achieve the objectives proposed in his seven-year strategic plan, he said.

Latin America is only represented by Cuba until today at JINR. We hope that other countries in our geographical area will join the institute in the near future.

Officials of the aforementioned scientific center, near Moscow, on the banks of the Volga River, said that almost 20 countries are participating, while maintaining relations with hundreds of organizations from about 60 nations.

(Prensa Latina) 

“The only way to solve the dispute on the nuclear development program is through the Western powers’ collaboration,” said the Iranian president.

Ahmadinejad gave an improvised press conference shortly before a session of the Cabinet about the talks with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), scheduled for this Wednesday in Tehran.

Questioned about the insistence of the IAEA delegation to visit Parchin military base, near this capital, the Iranian president said that his country has laws, regulations, and treaties with that entity, and the rights of the Iranian people must be taken into consideration.

Ahmadinejad’s statements came as the IAEA deputy director, Herman Nackaerts, arrived in Tehran on Wednesday to attend the rounds of talks on the Iranian nuclear program, to begin today.

According to official sources, the iranian party to talks is headed by ambassador to the IAEA Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh.

I feel the duty to convey to those taking the trouble to read these Reflections the opinion that all of us, with no exception, are obliged to create awareness about the risks that humankind are running in an inexorable manner, towards a final and total catastrophe as the consequence of irresponsible decisions made by politicians who fate, rather than talent or merit, has placed the destiny of humankind in their hands.

Whether they are citizens of their country or not, whether they are followers of some religious belief or unbelievers, no human being in their right mind would agree that their children or closest kin should perish precipitously or as victims of atrocious and torturous misery.

On the heels of the repugnant crimes that are being increasingly committed by NATO under the aegis of the United States and the wealthiest countries in Europe, the gaze of the world focused on the G-20 meeting where the profound economic crisis affecting every nation today should have been analyzed. International opinion, especially in Europe, was awaiting an answer for the profound economic crisis that, with its serious social and even climatic implications, is threatening every inhabitant on the planet. At that meeting, it was being decided whether the Euro would be able to be kept as the common currency for most of Europe and even whether some of the countries would be able to remain in the community.

There was no answer or solution of any kind for the most serious problems of the world economy despite the efforts of China, Russia, Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina and other emerging economies, anxious to cooperate with the rest of the world in the search for solutions for the serious economic problems affecting them.

What was unusual was that just when NATO concluded the Libyan operation – after the air attack that injured the constitutional head of that country, destroyed the vehicle carrying him and leaving him at the mercy of the empire’s mercenaries who murdered him and exhibited his body as a war trophy, violating Muslim customs and traditions – the IAEA, a UN body and an institution that ought to stand for world peace, released the political, money-driven and sectarian report putting the world on the brink of war with the use of nuclear weapons that the Yankee empire, in alliance with Great Britain and Israel, has been meticulously preparing against Iran.

After the veni, vidi, vici of the famous Roman emperor more than two thousand years ago, translated to “I came, I saw and he died” broadcast for public opinion by an important television network as soon as the death of Gaddafi had been learned of, there are more than enough words to describe US policy.

Now what is important is the need to create clear awareness in the peoples about the abyss towards which humankind is being led. Twice our Revolution lived through dramatic dangers: in October of 1962, the most critical of all where humankind was on the brink of nuclear holocaust; and in mid-1987 when our forces were facing racist South African troops armed with nuclear weapons that the Israelis had helped them create.

The Shah of Iran also collaborated, along with Israel, with the racist and fascist South African regime.

What is the UN? An organization driven by the United States before the end of World War II. That nation, whose territory was considerably far away from the theatre of war, had incredibly increased its wealth; it accumulated 80% of the world’s gold and under the leadership of Roosevelt, a sincere anti-fascist, it promoted the development of the nuclear weapon that Truman, his successor, a mediocre oligarch, did not hesitate in using against the defenceless cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

The world’s gold monopoly in United States’ power and the prestige of Roosevelt handed the US the Bretton Woods agreement, assigning it the role of issuing the dollar as the only currency to be used for decades in world trade, with no limiting factor other that it’s being backed by the gold metal.

At the end of that war, the US was also the only country possessing the nuclear weapon, a privilege it did not hesitate in transmitting to its allies and members in the Security Council: Great Britain and France, the two most important colonial powers in the world at that time.

Truman had not even informed the USSR one single word about the atomic weapon before using it. China, at that time governed by Nationalist General Chiang Kai-shek, a pro-Yankee oligarch, could not be excluded from that Security Council.

The USSR, seriously stricken by the war, destruction and the loss of more than 20 million of its sons and daughters in the Nazi invasion, dedicated considerable economic, scientific and human resources to bring its nuclear capacity up to par with that of the United States. Four years later, in 1949, it tested its first nuclear weapon: the H-bomb in 1953; and in 1955 its first megaton bomb. France had its first nuclear weapon in 1960.

There were only three countries that had the nuclear bomb in 1957 when the UN, under the aegis of the Yankees, created the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA). Does anybody think that US instrument did anything to warn the world about the terrible dangers to which it would expose human society when Israel, unconditional US and NATO ally, located in the very heartland of the world’s most important oil and gas reserves, would become a dangerous and aggressive nuclear power?

Its forces, cooperating with colonial British and French troops, attacked Port Said when Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, French property; this forced the Soviet premier to send an ultimatum demanding the ceasing of that aggression that the European allies of the US had no alternative other than to attack.

To be continued tomorrow.

Fidel Castro Ruz

November 12, 2011

8:15 p.m.