Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated Abel Prieto, President of Casa de las Americas, who received on Thursday the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa in Philological Sciences from the Central University of Las Villas Marta Abreu (UCLV).

The Cuba Office of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that the implementation of the project South-South Cooperation: Digital Transformation and Innovation in Agriculture, is advancing in the country with the support of the People's Republic of China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis delivered a donation of medical supplies worth some 6,500 dollars to Havana’s "América Arias" Gynecobstetric Hospital, a center specialized in the care of women in fertile stage and clinical and surgical gynecological services and in assisted reproduction treatments.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and Cuban President congratulated on Tuesday all workers with the Cuban News Agency on the occasion of the 50th birthday of the media outlet.

Cuba marked on Monday the 122nd year of the establishment of full bilateral diplomatic relations with The Netherlands.

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.