United Nations Development Program director Jessica Faieta announced on Saturday that the international organization will continue supporting Cuba in various projects in the economic, social and environmental fields.

The Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers, inaugurated yesterday an electrical substation in this tourist resort.

Cuban President Raul Castro received this Thursday afternoon Uruguay´s Vice-President-elect Raúl Fernando Sendic Rodríguez who is in Cuba on an official visit.

The delegations of Cuba and the United States agreed that the round of talks for the process of restoration of diplomatic relations, held today at the International Conference Center, is an important step on the road to the decision announced by Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro last December 17.

Cuba reiterated its willingness to keep holding respectful talks with the United States, based on sovereign equality and reciprocity, with no undermining of its national independence and self-determination, said the general director of the United States Office at the Cuban Foreign Ministry Josefina Vidal in statements to reporters during talks on the reestablishment of bilateral diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana.

At the end of the 28th round of US-Cuba migratory talks, the Cuban delegation issued a press release that ACN news agency now reproduces

The round of talks at the highest level in the past decades between Cuba and the United States to restore diplomatic relations will start in less than two hours in Havana city.

The talks between the delegations of Cuba and the United States on migration issues are taking place in respectful and constructive manner, Gustavo Machin, deputy director of the United States Department at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, declared to the press

The Cuban program for adult literacy teaching known as Yes, I Can has already nine million graduates, as confirmed to ACN by First Deputy Education Minister Cira Piñeiro.

Prominent Cuban artist Marta Jimenez Orepesa, winner of the National Radio Prize, known among other things by her role as the indescribable Rita of the radio program Alegrias de sobremesa, of Radio Progreso, died in this capital in the early morning of Wednesday, at age 95.

A 4.0 magnitude in the Richter scale earthquake hit three Cuban central provinces at 11.07 PM this Tuesday, whose epicenter was located 22.7 kilometers south of the town of Jaguey Grande, in Matanzas province

With talks on the migratory issue, the rounds of talks between delegations of Cuba and the United States begin on Wednesday in this capital, which on Thursday will tackle the process of reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and other bilateral matters.

Cuban Foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez met on Monday with a group of US Congress people who visited the island over the weekend.

Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, vice president of the Council of Ministers, received on the afternoon of Saturday January 17 to the Hon. Mrs. Hanna Serwaah Tetteh, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana, who paid an official visit to Cuba.

A wreath sent by Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro accompanied the funeral services for professor Leonela Inez Relys Diaz, founder of the Cuban Yes, I Can, literacy methodology, who died from Cancer on Saturday and was buried at Havana´s Colon cemetery.