Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Wednesday afternoon with Marco Enriquez-Ominami and Pedro Abarca, president and general secretary of the Chilean Progressive Party, respectively, who are on a visit to Cuba.

A parliamentary delegation of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic, members of the Agricultural and Livestock Commission, which is on a visit to Cuba, was received on Tuesday at the National Assembly of the People's Power (ANPP) by Yolanda Ferrer, president of the International Relations Commission of the Cuban Parliament.

A parliamentary delegation from the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda is visiting Cuba November 11 and 13 headed by the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Sir Gerald Watt, with the aim of strengthening friendly ties with the island´s parliament.

A Chinese Navy´s three-warship detachment is currently paying a friendly visit to Havana on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and China.

The vice-director of the United States division at Cuba´s Foreign Ministry, Gustavo Machin announced that Havana and Washington gave concrete steps towards a short-term accord to establish regular flights between the two countries.

During the second meeting of the Cuba-US Bilateral Commission in Washington on Tuesday, the island´s representatives reiterated the need to lift the over-50-year economic, commercial and financial blockade as a priority to advance the normalization of bilateral relations.

Cuban and US officials agreed to boost bilateral collaboration in issues related to security, such as the fight on terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundry and trafficking in persons.

Members of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, WFDY, stressed the resistance of the Cuban people and the role of the new generations of Cubans in the defense of the Socialist Revolution, during a session of the International Commission of the Cuban Communist League, held on Monday.

Mexico´s Minister of Agriculture, Ranching, Rural Development, Fishing and Food, Jose Calzada, announced a working visit to Cuba heading a business mission following a cooperation accord signed with Cuba´s Food minister Maria del Carmen Concepción.

The Cuban and Mexican governments signed several agreements in order to expand the reach of bilateral cooperation.

The Cuban Vice-President of the Council of Ministers Ricardo Cabrisas received Friday afternoon the Minister of State for Foreign Trade, the Promotion of Tourism and French Nationals Abroad Matthias Fekl, who leads a delegation of French entrepreneurs.

Miguel Diaz Canel, Cuba's first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, headed the event to mark the 40th anniversary of the start of the internationalist military mission in the Republic of Angola.

Cuban Parliament President Esteban Lazo received Peter Foster, his counterpart from the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia, which he described as a sister nation that shares with Cuba excellent and historic relations.

The upcoming 10th Congress on Marine Sciences will allow open exchange between Cuban and US academics, experts and directives of institutions in the sector.

Cuban president Raul Castro sent his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a message of condolences for the loss of Russian lives in the crash of the Airbus 321 in the Sinai Peninsula last October 31.