"A resounding victory! The cynical, lying and slanderous imperial discourse is as immoral, shameless and obsolete as the criminal blockade," said Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, after the results of the voting in the United Nations against the unilateral policy were announced.

The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday in favor of the Cuban resolution demanding the lifting of the over-60-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade against the Cuban people, reinforce by over 200 sanctions imposed by the former US Donald Trump administration.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez held to be confident that the Island’s demand for an end to the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade will receive worldwide support today at the United Nations General Assembly.

The development of a technology to extract humus from agricultural residues and use them as biofertilizers is the purpose of a project currently under way in this province.

Patients of the Orthopedic Prosthesis Laboratory in this city suffer the consequences of the brutal U.S. blockade of Cuba because the raw materials required for products that would improve their quality of life are imported.

The Office of Environmental Regulation and Security (ORSA) denounced in Havana the increase in recent years of the illegal trade of valuable species.

Since 1991, the Cuban government has submitted to the United Nations General Assembly the draft resolution "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo of the United States of America against Cuba", which every year receives the support of the international community.

Cuba and the world will once again make a pronouncement on the blockade at the United Nations General Assembly following the presentation of the resolution on the need to put an end to that policy imposed by the United States on the Island.

The Cuban Council of Ministers approved general urban planning programs for five Cuban cities including the capital Havana.

The first secretary of the central committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, held a fruitful and cordial telephone exchange Tuesday morning with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

Cuban deputy foreign minister Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo received Tuesday at the Cuban foreign ministry headquarters H.E. Mr. Kasim Asker Hasan Ali, as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Iraq, the Cuban foreign ministry's website Cubaminrex reported today.

The development of scientific research promoted by the University of Holguin(eastern Cuba) is one of the most affected branches within the teaching programs of that student center, due to the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed for six decades by the United States against Cuba.

The 8th International Workshop on Teaching Humanistic Studies is being held for the first time online, from today until the 24th, coordinated by the local University of Matanzas(western Cuba) and with representatives from seven countries.

The Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA by its Spanish acronym) highlighted on Twitter that today is the World Rainforest Day.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez met on Monday with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York.