Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Friday afternoon with Keji Furuya, member of the House of Representatives of Japan and President of the Japan-Cuba Friendship Parliamentary League, who is on a working visit to the Caribbean island.

Former U.S. Colonel Ann Wright, who served in the U.S. Army and in the Reserve for 29 years sent a letter to President Barack Obama requesting the release of the Cuban antiterrorists incarcerated in that country.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, member of the Politburo and First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Thursday afternoon with Cesar Octavio Camacho, president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of Mexico, who is on the island heading a delegation of that political organization at the invitation of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC).

The President of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers, Raul Castro, said good-bye at the capital's Jose Marti International Airport to 165 health professionals who traveled to Sierra Leone to take part in the world struggle against the Ebola fever virus, which has so far caused the death of thousands of people in Western Africa.

Cuba has done for the world what the world has not yet done for it and we would like that in the next few years our peoples could reciprocate everything this island has given to them, asserted Doctor Maria Isabel Rodriguez, former Salvadoran Health Minister.

South African Episcopalian priest Michael Lapsley confirmed on Tuesday that he paid his 9th visit to Cuban antiterrorist and hero Gerardo Hernandez, imprisoned in Victorville, California, in the United States.

For over 50 years now, Washington has tried to paralyze the Cuban transport system by stiffening its commercial, economic and financial blockade, which from April 2013 up to date along has inflicted damage on the sector calculated at 540 million dollars, said Transport minister Cesar Arocha.

Niger's President Issoufou Mahamadou described his official visit to Cuba this week as excellent and he said he was optimistic about the future of bilateral relations between the two countries.

Cuban first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel stressed the need to empower the culture institutional system in tune with today's reality, during a meeting on Tuesday with executives of the Cuban Artists and Writers' Association.

The President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo expressed his desire to move towards an increase in all kinds of bonds between his country and Cuba.

Some 400 delegates and guests, half of them Cubans, will meet today in this city to discuss the role of universities in the health of population.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, received Dr. Hifikepunye Pohamba, President of the Republic of Namibia, who is in Cuba on an official visit.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, met in Monday afternoon with Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

Cooperation relations with Cuba began before Namibia reached its indepdence and both nations now enjoy strong relationship, said Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba during a tour, Sunday, of Havana's National Zoo, accompanied by Cuba's First Vice-president Miguel Diaz Canel.

Niger's President Issoufou Mahamadou arrived Sunday on an official visit to Cuba aimed at strengthening bilateral relations, which are particularly developing in the areas of health, sports and education.