Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, assured today that at present there are no accumulated or backlogged documents in the legalization service of the foreign ministry.

Vicente de La O Levy, Cuban Minister of Energy and Mines, exchanged today with workers of the Camaguey Geomining Company, as part of a working visit to this province, with the purpose of checking the electric energy situation and the development of the sector's entities.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel hailed today the re-election of his Dominican counterpart, Luis Abinader, on Sunday's elections.

In a post on X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla thanked the support received from several governments that recognize the unjust inclusion of Cuba in the U.S. list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism and its devastating effects on the population.

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE, Spanish acronyms) announced on Thursday in Havana that it will provide technical assistance to the Cuban Central Bank (BBC) to strengthen the fight on crimes against humanity.

Havana is hosting the 4th International Food Fair, May 21-23, aimed at encouraging foreign investment, increasing local production capacities and establishing links between state and private companies in the sector.

Upon receiving Michelle Marie Muschett Zimmermann, UNDP general director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked the organization for its support to major national projects under way in key sectors such as food production and nutrition education, as well as for its assistance following floods and hurricanes in the island.

The Conference Financing for Development Havana 2024 is under way in this city, where Cuba will demonstrate how useful international aid of this kind is in areas such as energy transition, medicine production and environmental conservation.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) has issued the following statement:

On the days leading up to the celebration of Africa Day on May 25, Déborah Rivas Saavedra, Cuban deputy minister of Foreign Trade and Investment praised the bonds that unite that continent with Cuba, marked by milestones such as the arrival in Algeria in 1963 of the island’s first medical brigade and its support to the nationalist guerrilla for the liberation of Guinea Bissau from Portuguese colonialism, to Ethiopia against the Somali invasion, and to Angola and Namibia against apartheid and for independence.

“Change in communication is the norm, and those who do not adapt will disappear; given the accelerated pace of technology, what is very new today will be obsolete in 10 years,” Spanish journalist and professor Ignacio Ramonet said at a meeting with Cuban journalists and intellectuals.

The ongoing 8th edition of the Month of French Culture in Cuba will merge culture and sports to salute the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

“The United States has just admitted what everybody knows: Cuba cooperates fully with the fight against terrorism,” Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla remarked in a post on X.

The VI International Forum of Oratory “Pensamiento Martiano y Latinoamericano” opened its doors in this city with participants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Russia and Cuba.

The US Coast Guard Service returned to Cuba a group of 23 irregular migrants to the Orozco harbor in the western province of Artemisa.