Laos´ President Choummaly Sayasone thanked Cuba for its support of his nation economic development and national independence struggle, during a meeting with Lazara Mercedes Lopez, member of the Cuban Communist Party´s Political Bureau, who paid a working visit to that country this week.

Data published on Thursday by the Cubahora digital magazine evidence the importance of the Cuba-Vietnam cooperation project signed in 2002 for the replacement of rice imports on the island.

The Vice-president (VP) and Foreign Minister (FM) of the Republic of Panama, Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado, assessed on Thursday as very productive and beautiful her official visit to Cuba, during which mutual relations were strengthened.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Thursday afternoon with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice-president of the Republic of Panama, Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

Some 400 local and foreign delegates will gather in Havana for the 2nd International Medical Education Conference in the 21st Century, to take place September 30 to October 3.

The executive director of the UN Environment Program, Ibrahim Thiaw, described as impressing the Cuban sustainable development and disaster mitigation plans.

Marcela Suanzo, regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), asserted on Tuesday that over half a century ago Cuba began to meet the agreements adopted at the International Population and Development Conference.

Members of the agriculture and food business community agreed to form a coalition to overcome commercial obstacles between the United States and Cuba, an expression of today's increasing rejection of the blockade against the Caribbean island.

UNEP Deputy Executive Director and Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ibrahim Thiaw, began a two-day official visit to Cuba on Monday.

Delegates from Mexico, the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean nations met in Havana to prepare the 27th Ibero-American Conference of Youth Ministers and High-Level Representatives.

Thousands of signatures and messages of affection and admiration were registered on the visitors' book at the recent photo and video exhibited presented in Havana by Cuban film maker Roberto Chile.

A Cuban delegation headed by Bruno Rodriguez, Minister of Foreign Affairs and member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, arrived in New Zealand on Sunday at the invitation of Hon Murray McCully, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of that nation.

Elizabeth Palmeiro, wife of Ramon Labañino, one of the three Cuban antiterrorists still unfairly incarcerated in U.S. jails, explained on Sunday the situation of these men during the installation of the Colombian chapter at the Alba of Social Movements.

Members of the Illinois-Cuba working Group (ICWG) urged the US Congress and administration to loosen trade restriction on Cuba so that they agricultural entities may sell their products to the island.

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark asserted on Thursday in this capital that the case of the five Cubans condemned to prison in his country exemplifies the injustice prevailing in U.S. courts.