Army General Raúl Castro, President of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers, held a working meeting at the Cuban Mission in New York with a group of leading American businessmen, headed by the president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Thomas Donohue.

Speech by the President of the Cuban Councils of State and Ministers, Raúl Castro, at the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action,” as published by the Cubaminrex Web site.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers and the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, met on Saturday in New York in the context of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, scheduled to conclude on Sunday.

Cuban President Raul Castro met on Saturday with former U.S. President Bill Clinton as part of his busy schedule in New York, where he attends high-level forums of the United Nations, Prensa Latina reported.

The presidents of Cuba, Raul Castro, and of China, Xi Jinping held and informal meeting in New York during the Summit on the 2015-2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Cuban President Raul Castro delivered a speech at the United Nations Summit for the Adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, in New York.

Cuban President Raul Castro will deliver a speech today at the UN Sustainable Development Summit that is in its second day in New York City, reported Prensa latina news agency.

Jose Narro, rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), received on Friday the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Havana (UH), in the Aula Magna (Main Lecture Hall) of which he was honored.

The head of state of Vietnam, Truong Tan Sang, announced in Hanoi that he will pay an official visit to Cuba from September 28 th through the 30th, at the invitation of his counterpart Raul Castro.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, spoke on Friday in New York with his counterpart of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, Prensa Latina reported.

Cuban President Raul Castro has a tight working agenda today in New York City, United States, that include his attendance to plenary sessions of the UN General Assembly, as well as meetings with US and world leaders.

Cuban civil society organizations stressed in Geneva the Island´s work towards the protection and promotion of the rights of children and adolescents during a panel that ran parallel to the 30th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva.

We are closer to achieving the peace that the Colombian people deserves and has longed for, asserted in this capital Army General Raul Castro, President of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers, during the signing ceremony of a joint communique between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP).

Just as Pope Francis concluded his visit to Cuba on September 22, a 2.8 tremor was reported by local seismological services in the province of Santiago de Cuba, the last leg of the Pope´s tour of the island.

The outstanding natural scenes of the Viñales Valley, in the Western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio, is the green zone picked by 160 tour-operators, travel agents and journalists taking part of the 10th International Nature Tourism Event, Turnat-2015.