Japan and Cuba have shared exemplary and mutually respectful relations over the years, free of any foreign pressures, said Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel after welcoming the general secretary of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party Motegi Toshimitsu on Thursday at the Revolution Palace.

A Cuba high-level Communist Party Delegation successfully wound up on Thursday an Asian tour of Socialist countries which kicked off April 23rd and included China, Laos and Vietnam.

 Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, deputy prime minister of the Republic of Cuba and Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, received today in Havana Motegi Toshimitsu, Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan, who is paying an official visit to the Island.

The meeting of Ministers of Culture of the Group of 77 + China will be held today in Cuba, president pro tempore of this forum of developing countries.

Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, Cuba's Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), met with Sultan al-Jaber, president of the 28th Summit of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 28) to discuss issues of common interest.

The 7th International Colloquium on Trans-Identities, Gender and Culture begins today at Havana’s National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) as part of the celebrations of the Cuban conferences against Homophobia and Transphobia.

Local political authorities and mass organization leaders welcomed the 240-plus members of the 16th Contingent of the International May Day Brigade of Voluntary Work and Solidarity with Cuba, one of the largest groups of foreign supporters of Cuba, who are visiting this city founded in 1514 by the Spanish colonizers.

On May 6 to 26, Havana’s Chinatown will organize various events to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the Chung Wah Casino Federation’s presence in Cuba, according to Ana Eng, Chung Wah’s secretary of Culture.

Motegi Toshimitsu, general secretary of Japan’s Democratic Liberal Party and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez addressed the good state of bilateral relations between their nations during a meeting Wednesday in Havana.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez regretted the fatal shooting Wednesday at a school in Belgrade, Serbia, which claimed nine lives and injured another 7 persons.

Alena Douhan, special rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the Negative Repercussions of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights toured the Havana-based “Solidarity with Panama” elementary school as part of her academic visit to the island.

Havana, May 3 (ACN) Cuban Tourism Minister Juan Carlos Garcia announced the arrival of one million tourists on May 3, which reveals the start of the sector’s recovery after the severe impact by the COVID-19 pandemic and other limitations and external hurdles facing the country.

The partial transition to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) will begin in this city on May 15, when Cuba’s two learning TV channels will stop broadcasting in the province.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Maksim S. Oreshkin, advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, ratified the intention to raise the economic, commercial and financial ties between their countries to the same state as their long-lived, high-level political relations.

Around 69% of Cuban institutions are implementing the National System of Documentary Management and Archives, according to Marta Marina Ferriol Marchena, head of the Division in charge of this activity at the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA).