Panama - Some ten members of the Cuban Delegation to the Social Forum at the 7th Summit of the Americas are still lacking credentials on the second day of sessions to the meeting.

As Prensa Latina verified, organizers of the meeting gave out "provisional" accreditations to a group of the 28 Cuban representatives that yesterday lacked that essential document to participate in the event's sessions.

The delegation of the greater of the Antilles to that meeting is formed by 68 members of the Cuban civil society, among them youths, intellectuals, peasants, cooperativists, businesspeople and scholars. Irregularities in the delivery of those credentials contrasts with the authorizations given to counterrevolutionary elements residents in Cuba and abroad and fiunanced by Anti-Cuban organizations based in the United States.

All the members of the Cuban delegation traveled to Panama after complying with the required qualifications and receiving the formal acceptance messages from the organizing committee, explained a communique distributed here.

The presence of counterrevolutionary elements in the forum sparked off yesterday the withdrawal from the opening ceremony by Cuban delegates who did have the official accreditation.

The representation of the true Cuban civil society abandons the hall of the inaugural session of the meeting because we cannot share the same space with the counter-revolutionaries", explained Cuban intellectual Luis Morlote to reporters.

He said his delegation asked organizers to withdraw those mercenary elements from the hall to attend the inauguration of that meeting's sessions.

However, he made clear they would return to the forum to participate in the debates and remembered Cuba attends the Summit for an invitation of Panamanian President, Juan Carlos Varela.

Cubans also denounced the presence here of terrorist Felix Rodriguez Mendigutía and other mercenaries that relate with Luis Posada Carriles, confessed author of the bombing of a Cuban commercial airplane in 1976 and other many terrorist actions in Cuba and in other countries.

Rodriguez Mendigutia participated in the invasion of Playa Girón (1961), was involved in arms and drug trafficking to support Nicaraguan counterrevolution and attacked civil ships transporting merchandise to Cuba.

He was also involved, according to the Central Intelligence Agency with the assassination of (Ernesto) Che Guevara in Bolivia.