The 163rd session of the Council of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) started in Rome, Italy, where Cuba attends as an observer state, the Cuban embassy to that European nation reported on Twitter.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, called today U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who accuses Cuba of inciting protests and rebellions in Latin America, a liar.

The Secretary General of the Communist Party and President of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, and PM Nguyen Xuan Phu sent a joint congratulatory message to the First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, Raul Castro, and President Miguel Diaz-Canel, on the occasion of the 59th anniversary of diplomatic relations between both countries.

Organized by the Faculty of Communication of the University of Havana, the 10th International Meeting of Researchers and Academics of Information and Communication, ICOM 2019, will run from today until next Friday.

The president of Suriname, Desiré Delano Bouterse, will arrive today in Cuba to begin an official visit that will last until next Wednesday, an occasion to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between both nations and strengthen cooperation.

During the first round of migratory talks between Cuba and Nicaragua, both delegations expressed their willingness to work for legal, safe and orderly migration, Ana Teresita Gonzalez, Cuban deputy minister of foreign affairs, stated today.

Cuba accused the United States today of implementing an irrational series of measures to tighten the blockade and lies seeking pretexts to close their respective diplomatic missions.

A delegation of Cuban MPs visiting France was received today at the Senate of that European nation at a meeting that highlighted the positive development of interparliamentary ties between the two countries.

Cuban Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Union, Norma Goicochea, expressed today an open letter addressed to the European Parliament with arguments demonstrating that Jose Daniel Ferrer is not a political prisoner in Cuba, as the United States intends to present him.

Yuri Viamontes, Vice Minister of Energy and Mines, leads a Cuban delegation visiting Canada from November 25-29 aimed at strengthening ties between the two nations in different branches of the economy, including industry and iron and steel mechanics in Ontario and Quebec provinces.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuba´s Minister of Foreign Affairs, denounced today that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on his embassy in Havana to " meddle in the internal affairs of a sovereign country.

The second Cuba-European Union dialogue on unilateral coercive measures will take place next Friday in Havana, as a follow-up to the meeting held in November 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.

The 3rd Cuba Conference on energy, oil and gas opens today at Havana´s Melia Cohiba Hotel with a key objective: the start of this year's Cuba Oil (CUPET) bidding round.

Ana Maria Mari Machado, vice president of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State, received today at Havana's Capitol to Serguei Mironov, president of the Just Russia Party, who is making an official visit to Cuba.

The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel received this Monday afternoon Rudelmar Bueno de Faria and James E. Winkler, general secretaries of the Joint Alliance of Churches and of the National Council of Churches of Christ of the United States, together with the Brazilian theologian Frei Betto, Antonio Santana Hernandez and Joel Ortega Dopico, president and executive secretary of the Council of Churches of Cuba, respectively.