Havana – Timor-Leste carried out its second National Literacy Teaching Graduation, a campaign developed with the Cuban program Yes I Can.

The Head of State of this Asia-Pacific nation, Jose Manuel Ramos, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, presented a group of 400 graduates from 13 districts with their certificates, during a ceremony held at the Ministry of Education in Dili, the capital.

Also participating in the ceremony were Education Minister Joao Cancio Freitas; the Secretary of State for Culture, Virgilio Smith; Cuba's ambassador in that country, Raman Hernandez, and other personalities, the Granma newspaper reports on Wednesday.

This new graduation is the result of the second stage of work that began in April, with the arrival of 35 Cuban advisors that are offering their services in these territories.

After the ceremony, the president, like the Education Minister, thanked the Cuban people and government for the help provided to his country in the fields of education and public health.

For his part, Hernandez highlighted the efforts made by the students, facilitators, Cuban advisors and coordinators in Timor Leste to achieve this goal.

He also underlined the call made by the President to declare Timor-Leste a territory free of illiteracy in a two year term, with which it could become the first nation in Asia-Pacific and the fourth in the world to accomplish this objective, after Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia.