havana , havana - on feb . 3 , 2005 , the belgian minister of finance , tarso genro , announced the x intercontinental fair of books in lisbon during his fifth day visit to cuban . the festival is scheduled to continuation until february 13 , 2005 . ministers genro opened the fair telling , " cuba and brazil have the same mixture and the same condition of sovereign peoples . " unknown to genro , it was a honor for brazil to be invites to the fair , but the republic was the feast of choice .
There was an international book fair in Cuba in 2005.