Number of presentations:
144
It was characterized by the wide attendance of magistrates, judges and other jurists, from two organizations of the United Nations system and 28 countries, with the participation of 315 Cuban delegates and 125 from other nations, which, together with those who attended as guests, add more than 900.
The inaugural session was distinguished with the presence of Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, president of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, and other senior Cuban political and government officials.
We were accompanied by eminent personalities, presidents and vice-presidents of supreme and constitutional courts, professors, magistrates, judges, prosecutors and lawyers. Among them:
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, president of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba;
His Excellency Mr. Peter Sam Shivute, President of the Supreme Court of Namibia;
His Excellency Mr. Adelino Manuel Muchanga, President of the Supreme Court of Mozambique;
His Excellency Mr. Mariano Germán Mejía, President of the Supreme Court of Justice and of the Judicial Power Council of the Dominican Republic;
His Excellency Dr. Mogoeng Thomas Reetsang Mogoeng, President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa;
Your Excellency Mrs. Cecilia Sánchez Romero, director of the United Nations Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention and Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD);
Dr. Pier Luigi María Dell´Osso, Attorney General of the Italian Republic;
Your Excellency Mrs. Indira Alfonzo Izaguirre, first vice president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela;
His Excellency Mr. Ángel Juanes Peces, vice president of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judicial Power of Spain;
Dr. Sergio Foà, professor at the University of Torino, Italy;
Dr. Roberto Viciano, professor at the University of Valencia, Spain;
Moisés Moreno, director of the Center for Studies of Criminal Policy and Criminal Sciences, Mexico;
Homero Acosta Álvarez, secretary of the Council of State;
José Luis Toledo Santander, president of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly of Popular Power;
María Esther Reus González, Minister of Justice;
Darío Delgado Cura, Attorney General of the Republic;
Ariel Mantecón Ramos, president of the National Organization of Collective Law Offices;
Alexis Ginarte Gato, president of the National Union of Jurists of Cuba;
Mayda Goite Pierre, Vice Chancellor of the University of Havana; and
Marta Moreno Cruz, dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Havana.
Participating countries:
Argentina, Bolivia, Qatar, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, United States of America, France, Guatemala, Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Venezuela and Cuba as host country.