HAVANA, Cuba, May 26 (ACN) About 1,500 hectares of planted forests in Cuba have been affected by wildfires so far this year, reported the Cuban Forest Ranger Corps (CGC), attached to the Ministry of the Interior.

Cuban ambassador to UNESCO, Yahima Esquivel Moynelo, is leading the Cuban delegation to the Sixth Meeting of the States Parties to the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.

Esteban Lazo Hernandez, president of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba, congratulated today the Pan-African Parliament and the people of that continent, on the occasion of the celebration of Africa Day this May 25.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, denounced today on Twitter the continuity of Donald Trump's policy against the Caribbean nation by the current U.S. administration.

On the occasion of the celebration today of Africa Day, Cuban authorities highlighted the strong historical and cultural ties that unite Cuba with that continent.

China will donate some five thousand solar panel systems as part of the Chinese government’s “Belt and Road” climate change initiative, according to the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

People from government and science (or a small representation of them) committed to the promotion of science and innovation in Cuba, will coincide from now on in the National Innovation Council, created Monday by Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, at the Palace of the Revolution.

The Biblioverde (BV) project, of the Cuban Association of Librarians (Ascubi) in Villa Clara, is among the four finalists worldwide in the IFLA Green Library 2021 call, a contest that seeks to strengthen the commitment of libraries to environmental education.

The TripAdvisor website granted the Travellers' Choice award to the Gran Club Santa Lucía Hotel, one of the four hotels owned by the Cubanacán chain on Santa Lucía beach, the main tourist center in the province of Camagüey.

The President of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) of the Republic of Cuba, Esteban Lazo Hernández, held on Monday a cordial and fruitful virtual exchange with the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) of the People's Republic of China, Li Zhanshu, where they ratified the high priority both give to the ties of friendship and cooperation between both peoples, Parties, Governments and legislative bodies.

Cuban Education authorities expect to start an in-person new school year in September or resume the current one in those territories hit by the epidemic, given the advancement of COVID-19 immunization and the evolvement of the epidemiological situation.

Tropical cyclones, severe local storms, heavy rains and flash floods are phenomena that could cause damage in Cuba during 2021, said the general director of the Institute of Meteorology, PhD Celso Pazos Alberdi.

The president of the Cuban Radio and Television Institute (ICRT by its Spanish acronym), Alfonso Noya Martinez, congratulated today on Twitter the workers of the entity, which is celebrating its 59th anniversary this May 24.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Cuban communist party (PCC) and president of the country, informed today on Twitter that the Secretariat of the party organization will begin a tour of all the provinces of the country.

At the last meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, chaired by its First Secretary, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, a document was submitted that summarizes the ideas, concepts and guidelines drawn from the Central Report to the 8th Congress, the closing speech and the documents approved in its working commissions. Presented by the member of the Party secretariat and head of its Ideological Department, Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, the text was the axis of the meeting of the Cuban leadership with 2,600 directors from the whole country.