Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel highlighted today Cuba’s election to the UNESCO Executive Board for the period 2023-2027, which he described as a great victory for Cuba.

The 14th International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Issues, currently under way in Havana, will host the panel For a new international economic order in the current context, as well as a business and a students’ forum.

The 24th Conference of Ibero-American Water Directors (CODIA), under way in this city, enters its second day of sessions today.

Cuba’s Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Health Teymur Musayev highlighted the potential to expand economic and commercial ties between the two countries, especially in the health care sector.

Cuba was voted at the 42nd General Conference of UNESCO in Paris onto the Executive Board of the organization for the period 2023-2027.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel appreciated on Wednesday the international acknowledgment of the promotion and protection of human rights on the island following the presentation of the Cuban report to the periodical review of the United Nations.

The international Community can always count on Cuba to defend peace, multilateralism and to promote the enjoyment of all human rights for all, said Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez as he presented on Wednesday the island’s National Report to the Fourth Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council, at Geneva, Switzerland.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel appreciated on Wednesday the international acknowledgment of the promotion and protection of human rights on the island following the presentation of the Cuban report to the periodical review of the United Nations.

The Cuban Civil Defense authority issued an early warning advisory on Wednesday for intense rains, in tune with the most recent weather reports by the local Meteorology Institute.

Experts from 18 countries attended on Wednesday in Havana the opening ceremony and first sessions of the 25th Conference of Ibero-American Water Directors (CODIA), which is being chaired by Cuba for one year and for the first time since the first forum of its kind was held in Colombia in 2001.

Cuban vice president Salvador Valdés Mesa met today with Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé as part of a tour of several African countries that will last until November 22.

 A meeting with Cuban health workers deployed in Ghana marked the end of Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa’s official visit to that country as part of a tour of Africa that will include Guinea Bissau, Rwanda and Ethiopia.

The sessions of the 4th International Scientific Convention UCLV 2023, under way in this province, are focused on science and innovation for sustainable development through various events attended by Cuban and foreign delegates.

Representatives of Cuba and the United States held a round of migration talks in Havana on Tuesday, which considered bilateral migration accords establishing mutual commitment to regular, safe and orderly migration.

Cuban Vice-President Salvador Valdes Mesa ratified Cuba’s willingness to keep forming Ghanaian professionals during talks with his Ghanaian counterpart Mahamudu Bawumia.