TABACUBA Business Group executives said they will extend the current tobacco campaign until July to offset losses caused by climatic damages.

Army General Raul Castro Ruz, President of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers, received on Thursday leaders of several countries attending the signing ceremony of a bilateral and definitive agreement for a cease-fire and cessation of hostilities between the Colombian government and the guerrilla.

The Colombian government and the FARC-EP signed today in this capital a bilateral and definitive agreement on cease-fire and the cessation of hostilities, considered a key step to achieve peace in that nation, which has lived more than 50 years of armed conflict.

Mogens Lykketoft, president of the seventieth period of sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, arrived today in Cuba on an official visit, where he will attend the signing by the Colombian government and the FARC-EP of a bilateral ceasefire and surrender of weapons.

The Secreatry-General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon arrived in Havana on Wednesday night to attend the signing of a final ceasefire accord between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP guerrilla.

The delegations of the Colombian government and the FARC-EP announced through a joint communiqué that they will sign this Thursday in Havana a bilateral and final ceasefire accord.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said upon his arrival in Havana that the peace in Colombia means peace in the Americas,

The head of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) Maria Contreras-Sweet wound up a working visit to Cuba on Tuesday.

A group of 15 Cuban technicians received a three-month intensive training to learn about the new technologies installed in the Cuban biggest steel plant, Antillana de Acero, in Havana.

Ambassador William Lacy Swing Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) met during his working visit to Cuba with Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez received Doctor Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD, who is in Cuba on an official visit

The Cuban people, in their democratic right, are participating in the consultation process of the main documents that came out of the 7th Communist Party Congress and are conscious that, different from many other events that happen in the world, each action taken is historic and unique.

Cuban Pediatrician Oldrich Gort Gutierrez celebrated on Sunday in Havana Father's Day after spending two months in Ecuador assisting victims of last April's earthquake.

An official from the Cuban Foreign Ministry described as a step forward four amendments approved by the Appropriations Committee of the US Senate that would allow the increase of agricultural trade and that citizens of that country to freely travel to Cuba.

The president of the Cuban National Assembly of People´s Power (Parliament), Esteban Lazo, called the 7th Session of the legislative body to open July 8.