Cuba denounced today that the U.S. blockade contradicts the principle of free trade and the fundamental rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and hinders relations with third countries based on its extraterritorial provisions.

The Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz University of the province of Camagüey (UC) strengthened its working relations with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), the tenth Brazilian institution to establish cooperation links with this Cuban school.

Cuban and Japanese authorities signed in Havana the Record of Discussion of a technical cooperation project for capacity building in the integrated management of water resources, which has as its main goal the improvement of drainage basins in western Cuba where groundwater levels are decreasing and threatened by salinization.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez urged to multiply solidarity and cooperation in the face of coercion, unilateralism and selfishness that the world faces nowdays, at the Ministerial Conference of the G-77 + China.

Our countries have much to share, let's continue joining political wills to carry out projects with realism and determination as the unforgettable leaders of our countries did before, said Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, in Havana.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel, in his speech to the Parliament this Wednesday, said that the complex economic situation the country is facing won’t be solved by acknowledging the causes, but by finding ways out, innovate and break the circle.

Once again Cuba will win because the peoples accompany and fight for their people, said Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of the Republic of Nicaragua, during his speech at the Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas and the Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP).

Nicolás Maduro Moros, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, said today at the 22nd Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) that the nations of the regional bloc must be increasingly united for action.

Army General Raúl Castro and Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, together with regional leaders, celebrated the 18th anniversary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas and Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP).

 The Nobel Prize, the Hippies and the Second Quantum Revolution is the suggestive title of a discussion event organized by the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) called Puertas Abiertas (Open doors).

The 10th Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) in its 9th Legislature concludes today in this city after days of intense debates on key issues of national development.

The National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) approved the Act on Expropriation for reasons of public value or social interest, a provision that improves the current legislation in favor of collective interests.

The Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, as representative of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), reported back to the deputies through its vice president Ana María Mari Machado, who described the systematic actions of her higher State body since 2019 despite COVID-19 and the complex political and economic situation affecting Cuba and the world. 

A Cuban delegation is participating in the meeting of the Council of Experts of the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE) taking place in Panama, the Cuban Ministry of Energy and Mines reported in Twitter.

In Cuba, attention to demographic dynamics is a priority for the Government in the face of a natural decrease in its population, said Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister and President of the Government Commission for Attention to Demographic Dynamics.