Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Friday with the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, who is on a visit to the island.

The member of the Politburo of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and Vice-president of the Council of State, Salvador Valdes, began a visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to participate in celebrations on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Dr. Pablo Duran, Neonatal Alliance Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, praised in this capital Cuba's results in public health, especially in the neonatal, child and mother sector, calling it an example in the region.

The President of the councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro, received the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, Robert Fico, on Thursday afternoon.

Having extended the Medical Program of the Family throughout East Timor by November 2016 is the aspiration of Rui Maria de Araujo, its Prime Minister, who takes the Cuban health system as a model for this effort.

With the aim of continuing political consultation mechanisms between foreign ministries that perfect dialogue on bilateral affairs, Cuba and the Republic of Artgentina signed in this capital a memorandum of understanding.

Ricardo Cabrisas, Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, received the Prime Minister (PM) of the Slovak Republic, Robert Fico, who is on an official visit to Cuba accompanied by Miroslav Lajcak, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs; and Peter Kazimir, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finances, as well as by other top officials of the Slovak government.

The Prime Minister (PM) of the Slovak Republic, Robert Fico, arrived in Cuba in the evening hours on Wednesday for an official visit.

Ricardo Cabrisas, Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, received U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, at the end of her working visit to Cuba.

At the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez received Penny Pritzker, Commerce Secretary of the United States, who was on a working visit to the island.

Politburo member and First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel, received Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), who is on a working visit to Cuba.

Hector Marcos Timerman, Minister of Foreign Affairs (FM) and Cult of the Republic of Argentina, will arrive in Cuba on Wednesday on an official visit, as reported by the island's Foreign Ministry on its Web site.

Robert Fico, Prime Minister of the Slovakian Republic, will arrive in Cuba on October 7 on an official visit, the Granma newspaper reported.

Deputy Yolanda Ferrer, president of the International Relations Committee of the National Assembly of the People's Power (ANPP), received on Tuesday a delegation of the Party of the European Left, headed by its Vice-president, Maite Mola.

History will condemn those responsible for the crime in Barbados in 1976, asserted on Tuesday in Bolivia Rene Gonzalez, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, on the occasion of the 39th anniversary today of that horrendous terrorist act.