Paris – The Minister of Education of Timor Leste, Benito dos Santos Fleitas, highlighted on Friday at the Unesco headquarters the cooperation of Cuba with his country in the fields of Health and education.

"Cuban contribution is very beneficial", told Prensa Latina the minister, who participates here on the World Meeting on Education for All (EFA).

Since 2004, the Cuban government granted one thousand medicine scholarships to the Timor Leste people and doctors from the Caribbean island are working in intrincate areas in that small nation of the Southeast Asia, that became independent since a decade ago.

Timor Leste applies the method "Yes, I can", through which that territory, with a population of one million 100 thousand inhabitants, expects to be declared free of illiteracy in 2013.

The education minister said that at this moment his country is working for the opening of more schools and training teachers.

The global meeting which analyzes the achievement of the objectives to obtain an EFA by 2015 will end on Friday, after three days of meetings at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).