The VI Round of Inter-Chancellery Political Consultations between Cuba and Vietnam was held on Tuesday, in virtual format, chaired by the First Deputy Foreign Ministers of each country, Marcelino Medina Gonzalez and Bui Thanh Son.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX by its Spanish acronym), a photographic exhibition was inaugurated today, which gathers part of the history of the institution.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez invited the Joe Biden administration to maintain a respectful relation with Cuba and the whole region.

Co-authored by the Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, a scientific text published today presents the conceptual and referential bases for the projection of the Innovation-oriented Government Management Model.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez thanked today the solidarity of Cuban émigrés and friends who from seven U.S. and Canadian cities demanded an end to Washington's economic, commercial and financial blockade on the Island and said to have great admiration for them and their Bridges of Love Caravan, organized on February 28 in Miami, Seattle, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Ottawa and Montreal.

"As an American musician my ideals are, above all, to achieve an essentially American art in a whole independent from the European one, an art of ours, continental, worthy of being universally accepted," Amadeo Roldan said in an article he titled The Artistic Position of the American Composer.

Faced with a steadily growing number of COVID-19 cases—more than 900 during the new normal—the provincial health authorities strive to improve sanitary protocols and the effectiveness of active screenings as well as to shorten the time span between case-detection and hospital admission.

The University of Havana (UH) starts today its 2021 school year without the physical presence of students, who received detailed instructions from their schools as to how their courses will be organized. Freshmen in turn will first be on campus on April 19, since their personal attendance is essential both for strictly academic reasons and because their presence in the classroom and their interaction with classmates are a gateway to university life.

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, said Ton Sunday that the country is moving forward at the end of February, a month he described as full of complexities, but also of learning.

Associations of Cubans living in Canada and the United States demanded on Sunday the lifting of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, Prensa Latina news agency reported from Ottawa.

Cuba and the European Union just held the third round of talks on Human Rights; it was a virtual dialog due to the COVID 19 pandemic.

On the occasion of the Brain Awareness Week to be marked March 15-21, the Cuban Society for Neuroscience launched a call to observe the date considering ten suggestions to face the coronavirus pandemic.

Cuba has just adopted its Animal Welfare Decree Law which gathers the work carried out in the country during years in the benefit of animals.

Cuba issued today Resolution 47/2021 of the Ministry of Domestic Trade related to the establishment of the rules for registration in the consumer registry, as well as the granting of the regulated product card for the sale of regulated food products to the population.