A meeting between Cuban businesspeople and the African Group of the diplomatic corps accredited in the country will be held today in this city by the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba in order to strengthen links between the parties and present export projects focused on the African market.

The Central Institute of Pedagogical Sciences (ICCP) convened the III International Congress on Science and Education, to be held in Havana on June 17 to 19.

At a meeting with Cuban aid workers in Antigua and Barbuda held as part of his official visit to this country, Cuba’s VP Salvador Valdés Mesa thanked them for their good service.

Marinus Bee, president of the National Assembly of the Republic of Suriname, is paying an official visit to Cuba to commemorate on May 31 the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Cuba ratified the links of friendship and cooperation with the countries attending the IV International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), held in Antigua and Barbuda since May 27.

Cuba’s Communist Party and Rwanda’s Patriotic Front singed a cooperation accord in Havana to expand bilateral links.

The Cuba-related measures recently announced by the US government are limited, restrictive and do not affect the main core of the US blockade against our country, or other US high-pressure policy sanctions, said Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz met with Ma Hui, ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Cuba, whose diplomatic mission is coming to an end.

In a post on X, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuba's Foreign Affairs Minister, said that the measures announced by the U.S. government are limited in scope, disregard the impact of both the blockade and the inclusion of Cuba on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, and seek to create divisions within Cuban society.

“Cuba will not hinder the measures announced by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to favor our private sector, even though they are limited and do not benefit the whole society,” said Johana Tablada, deputy director general of the U.S. division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX).

During his official visit to Antigua and Barbuda, Cuban VP Salvador Valdés Mesa met with Gaston Alphonso Browne, Prime Minister of that Caribbean nation.

Adianez Taboada Zamora, deputy minister of Cuba’s Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), stressed that the Caribbean countries and small island states need access external financing to purchase cutting-edge technologies designed to counteract the effects of climate change.

In a post on X, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs thanked Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for his pronouncement against the inclusion of the island on the spurious list of state sponsors of terrorism.

In a post on X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez welcomed the signing of the Agreement on the Development of the Process of Participation of Society in the Construction of Peace in Colombia.

About 540 hectares (ha) of forest were hit in the last few days in the province of Pinar del Río by two massive fires, put out after days of intense struggle.