Cuba and Belarus agreed to politically support their mutual interest in expanding and diversifying economic and trade relations, during political consultations on Tuesday between Cuban deputy foreign minister Anayansi Rodriguez and her Belarusian counterpart Evgeny Shestakov.

 Havana, Jun 7 (ACN) Cuba commemorated on Tuesday the 87th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Holy See, an event that took place in 1935 under Decree Law 208 which established a Vatican’s diplomatic mission on the island.

 With the aim of discussing fundamental issues of agricultural biotechnology, the 1st edition of the scientific event BioCubaAgro is taking place at the Plaza America Convention Center in Varadero, with the participation of world leaders and high-level specialists from 18 countries.

More than 4,800 citizens have been evacuated in the province of Matanzas, with the priority of protecting human lives in a territory with saturated soils due to constant rains, reports of floods and reservoirs with high flow.

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA by its Spanish acronym), in the province of Holguin, is promoting several projects aimed at protecting coastal areas, as part of the implementation of the Tarea Vida (Task Life), the Cuban State's plan to confront climate change.

The Union of Jurists of Cuba (UNJC) will open today its 9th Congress at the Havana Convention Center, aimed at strengthening the organization and its affiliates from the social and legal responsibility that represents its work.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that the new Family Code, currently in the make, will be a necessary, worthy law made by the Cuban people.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban president, said today on Twitter that the voice of Latin America and the Caribbean, as in the past, will resound in Los Angeles during the 9th Summit of the Americas, with the absence of key leaders.

The National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) of Cuba congratulated today the newspaper Trabajadores, on the occasion of its 52nd anniversary, and thanked the meritorious work of this publication.

Workers from the Attorney General's Office of the Republic (FGR by its Spanish acronym) reaffirmed today their commitment to the principles of socialist legality during the main ceremony for the Legal Workers' Day, to be commemorated on June 8.

The United States government, abusing the privilege granted by its status as host country, decided in advance to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the 9th Summit of the Americas, to be held in the city of Los Angeles this June. It refused to meet the just demands of numerous governments to change this discriminatory and unacceptable position.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and president of the country, urged today on Twitter to work hard on the recovery after the heavy rains of the last few days, giving priority to damaged houses and plantations.

The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel, congratulated today the combatants, officers and leaders of the Ministry of the Interior(MININT) on their 61st anniversary.
On Twitter, the president stressed that this body guarantees peace and tranquility for citizens.

A Cuban professional delegation is attending three international meetings in Geneva on chemicals, hazardous wastes and their elimination, which will last until June 17.

Cuban and European experts begin today an exchange on integral multi-risk management of disasters in order to reduce their negative impacts on the most vulnerable populations in time for the cyclonic season that lasts until next November.