Omar Garcia, the diplomat who was expelled as persona non grata by the Colombian government May 5th, was officially welcomed today at the Cuban Foreign Ministry in Havana.

Cuba today ratified its willingness to meet the 2030 agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals and the National Plan for Economic and Social Development, despite the impact on Cuban society and economy by the over 60-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade against the Cuban people.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez described as positive bilateral cooperation and friendly links between Cuba and East Timor.

The Cuban News Agency (ACN) today acknowledged the work and commitment of outstanding professionals with the agency and decorated them with distinctions that underscore a Lifetime Labor and a Year’s Work.

Cuban Metrology has guaranteed the technical support of measurements in the fight against COVID-19 through scientific research, new clinical and microbiological laboratories, and medical equipment, protocols and drugs.

As part of the initiatives that precede the World Conference on Higher Education, scheduled for October, the virtual forum Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education took place on Wednesday, with professors from foreign universities and the country's Medical Sciences.

A project for the integrated management of drought designed to mitigate its negative effects on Food and Nutrition Security and on water supply in eastern Cuba is being developed at the Provincial Meteorological Center of this province as part of its measures to contribute to sustainable development.

The UNDP Energy Resilience Program for Rural Communities based on renewable energy sources has benefitted over 200 Cuban rural communities.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Army General Raul Castro sent wreaths to honor Cuban National Hero Jose Marti on the 126th anniversary of his fall in action.

The Jose Martí Club of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) in the province of Holguin is one of the initiatives to promote the work of Cuba's National Hero among local teenagers and young people through their study programs.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez highlighted today on Twitter the work of various workers’ collectives to solve in record time the problems suffered by the National Electric Power System in record time.

 “Our first thoughts go to José Martí this May 19, 126 years after his fall in combat and his political testament,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote on Twitter today.

The people of the eastern Cuban city of Santiago will pay this Wednesday homage to the National Hero Jose Marti, on the 126th anniversary of his death in combat.

The website of CMHS Radio Caibarién, La Voz de la Villa Blanca, in the province of Villa Clara, in central Cuba, was awarded in the Media category of the World Summit of the Information Society Award.

 Cuban and South African parliamentarians held on Tuesday a virtual exchange on the bilateral relations that unite both peoples since the establishment of diplomatic ties on May 11, 1994.