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Argentinian famous piano player Miguel Angel Estrellas concert will close on Sunday the capital´s section of the 16th Cuban International Book Fair, sources told Prensa Latina on Saturday.

Argentina is the honorary guest to the fair, which started on February 8, and the musician is a member of his country´s delegation.

Estrella has been greatly acclaimed in the musical world for 40 years, because he is considered an exceptional virtuoso of the piano.

The great musician created the Musica Esperanza Foundation in 1982, and his sacred objective is taking his art to all social sectors.

More than 4,000 Panamanians received free ophthalmologic surgery in Cuba in 2006 as part of Operation Miracle, La Estrella daily of Panama headlined Tuesday.

Of the total number of patients reported by the newspaper, 2,316 were treated for cataracts, 263 for strabismus, 1,336 for pterygium, 107 for ptosis and nine for retinitis pigmentaria.

One trip a week was made last year, 46 trips to the island in all, with an average 120 passengers, including patients and companions.

The objective is to cure 12,000 people of limited resources in the next four years, according to the newspaper.

The Health Ministry announced that the program will be resumed at the end of January, suspended temporally for the new year celebrations.

At that time 700 patients will be moved to Cuba for surgeries for cataracts, strabismus, ptrgium (illness of the conjunctiva and cornea) and ptosis palpebrales (congenital drooping eyelid).

First vice president of Cuba s Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Enrique Roman, expressed gratitude for the Venezuelan people s demonstrated solidarity with the cause of the five Cuban anti-terrorists imprisoned in the US.

Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, and Fernando Gonzalez, were arrested in September 1998 for monitoring Miami terrorist groups responsible for the death of over 3,000 Cubans along almost five decades.

Roman told Prensa Latina that his visit to Venezuela allowed him to get first-hand information on the work of solidarity with Cuban movements, which he called tremendous.

The task they have performed is noteworthy, he stated, adding the most interesting thing are the results of those meetings.

Roman also emphasized that Cuba-Venezuela solidarity will continue growing, and praised the work of the Venezuelan Network of Public Libraries for spreading the word about The Five, as they are internationally known.

The Iranian ambassador to Cuba Ahmad Edrisian assured that only dialogue would solve the controversies on the nuclear issue between the US and his country.

In an interview released by the Granma newspaper on Saturday and in a clear allusion to a declaration recently endorsed by the UN Security Council against Iran, the diplomat stated that the matter would not be solved with resolutions or sanctions by that international organ.

After recalling that his nation has not occupied any other State in the last 200 years, Edrisian asserted they would never create atomic weapons but that they would defend their right to the generation of nuclear energy for peaceful aims.

“We won t want controversies, we want dialogue and respect,” emphasized the ambassador and announced the opening of 3,000 centrifuges to produce enriched uranium contributing to the generation of electric energy on February eleven.

On the other hand, Edrisian highlighted the advances of the Persian state and described as truly democratic the electoral process of the Municipal Councils recently concluded, with more than 60 percent attendance and in which 5,000 women were candidates.

A group of defenders of peace, including Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq, will arrive in Cuba on Saturday as part of a campaign to demand the immediate closing of Guantanamo Prison.

Sheehan will be accompanied by a former prisoner of that facility illegally located in Cuban territory, as well as attorneys and relatives of some detained together with whom she will call for new world actions against torture.

The delegation will protest the existence of the prison and will give a conference on the abuses committed there on the International Day for the closing of Guantanamo, January 11.

Asif Igbal, released without charges after years of abuse, and Zohra Zewawi, whose son was jailed, tortured and mutilated in Guantanamo will also be in Cuba.

The program of Sheehan and her fellows will last until January 13, and will include visits to the Martin Luther King Religious Center, the Latin American School of Medicine, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples and other places of interest.

They will travel to the eastern province of Guantanamo to express their rejection of torture there and will participate in a press conference to be held in Havana.

According to the sources, they will condemn the Military Commissions Law and will demand fair trials or the release for all the prisoners.