raklis Tsavdaridis, executive secretary of the World Peace Council (WPC), will begin next Wednesday an official visit to Cuba, invited by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), with the aim of continuing to strengthen the work in favor of peace.

A group of French lawmakers are expected to visit Cuba March 3-10 to have a first-hand look at the local vaccine production, economic transformations and the impact by the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island nation.

In the presence of Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, executives with the Food Industry Ministry reported on the main problems currently affecting food production in the country.

More than a necessary exchange, Cuban minister of public health, Jose Angel Portal Miranda, considered as urgent the scientific debate that will be proposed by the 4th International Cuba-Health Convention, 2022, to be held October 17-21 of this year.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and president of the country, urged to deeply study the text of the draft law of the New Code of Families during his participation in the meeting of popular consultation held in the 141st district of the Peralta distribution, in the city of Holguin(eastern region).

The Cuban Food Sovereignty and Nutritional Education Plan (SAN Plan by its Spanish acronym), as a national platform to achieve full food security, will be presented today in Havana to the diplomatic corps, international collaboration agencies and the national and foreign press.

Heinz Bierbaum, president of the Party of the European Left (PEL), expressed today, in Havana, being impressed by the social advances in Cuba despite the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the blockade imposed by the U.S. government.

Cuban ambassador to Italy, Mirta Granda Averhoff, confirmed today that the island will continue working constructively for the strengthening of relations between Latin America and the European country.

 Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is leading a visit of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPCuba) to the province of Holguín.

The Center for Advanced Studies of Cuba (CEA), one of the youngest entities of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), has a nationwide program and a strategy until 2030 as an important player for the country’s socio-economic development.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez attended a tribute gala held in honor of Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque on the 95th anniversary of his birth.

Transnational families, for which there are provisions in the new draft Family Code, respond to strong, stable and lasting bonds of affection, said Maria Ofelia Rodriguez Soriano, a researcher at the Center for Demographic Studies of the University of Havana.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel gave a statement at the International Conference for the Financing of the Reconstruction of Haiti’s Southern Peninsula, on Wednesday. ACN offers the full text of the Cuban head of state’s official statement up next:

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla and Portugal ambassador to Havana Fernando Figueirinhas expressed satisfaction for the positive state of bilateral relations between their nations.

The crisis unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic has worsen a series of previous problems threatening plans for regional integration, said Rodolfo Sabonge, general secretary of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS).