Havana - Cuba signed several legal documents of foundational character in the Memory of the World program, Unesco, founded in 1992 to preserve the documentary heritage of the world.

The Granma newspaper reports today on the income of the founding legal documents collection of the Republic of Cuba (1903-1934) in the Register of that program.

The holdings contain documents that shaped the history of this country, as the Treaty of Reciprocal Trade between Cuba and the United States, the file kept by the Foreign Ministry.

Alicia Gonzalez, permanent secretary of the Cuban Commission for UNESCO, said that MoW is a global benchmark in terms of the preservation of documentary heritage.

Gonzalez also highlighted his work to raise awareness of the value of this heritage and the democratization of access.

She acknowledged the work of the Document Management Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for collecting, restoring and preserving more than five thousand 400 treaties of the Republic of Cuba and other founding documents.