Havana hosts IV International Congress JURISCUBA

 HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 5 (ACN) Intended to contribute to a nation’s legal security, a challenge facing today’s world, the IV International Congress JURISCUBA 2024 opened its doors in this city in the presence of more than 300 Cuban and 41 foreign delegates from nine countries, including representatives of ministries and international legal organizations from Namibia, Spain, Venezuela and Russia.

In his opening remarks, Minister of Justice Oscar Manuel Silvera Martínez pointed out that the conference offers an opportunity for top-level professional exchanges based on the island’s experience in the implementation of an across-the-board legal regulation process in complex circumstances especially marked by the U.S. blockade, which―he stressed―makes it imperative to link the need to enforce the current legislation with the obligations of State bodies and their professionals to guarantee the strict observance of their constitutional functions.

“As a social science, Law requires an objective understanding of reality, and JURISCUBA 2024 expects to be that space for collective participation in the construction of the development model chosen by the Cubans”, he added.

On his end, José Luis Toledo Santander, president of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Commission of the National Assembly, gave a keynote lecture about Cuba’s profound and wide-ranging democratic exercise to approve the laws and decrees emanating from the 2019 Constitution, as well as an update of the country’s legislative process.

During the session, the participants addressed, among other topics, the key role that legal security plays in the present circumstances, digitalization as a tool for change, the need to bring innovation into line with the main principles of Law, and the consolidation of the paradigms of cooperation between States in matters of justice.