Mtho Xulu, president of the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and his Cuban counterpart, Antonio Luis Carricarte, virtually signed an important cooperation agreement between the two entities.

The Cuban people will pay tribute today in the National Capitol to Havana historian Eusebio Leal, postponed after his death last July 31, due to the requirements imposed by Covid-19.

The Cuban government announced it will invest over one billion pesos in agriculture next year, a 43 percent increase compared to 2020, in order to boost production and to eradicate shortages in markets.

Cuban deputies exercised their right to vote today to elect a new member of the Council of State, deputy Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, who holds the position of national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR).

The National Assembly of People's Power condemned today the actions of counterrevolutionary groups that seek to destabilize Cuban society and are financed from the United States and asked to apply the law in those cases.

As part of the investment program financed by the credit of the Saudi Arabia Fund for Development, the Water Treatment Plant of Camaguey city, eastern central Cuba, is rehabilitated today, benefiting more than 320 thousand inhabitants.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez today rejected the sanctions imposed by the United States against Turkey due to the purchase of missile defense systems.

Cuban lawmakers will learn first-hand today about the country's scientific contributions fighting Covid-19, including four vaccine candidates that have been registered in the country.

On July 31st the Cuban people learned the sad news of the physical disappearance of Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler, whose funeral services were postponed in response to the requirements imposed by Covid-19.

With the presence of Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban president, the commissions of Constitutional Affairs and Attention to the Local Bodies of the People's Power of the Cuban parliament approved today the decisions on the projects of laws of Organization and Functioning of the Provincial Government of the People's Power and the Council of the Municipal Administration.

The Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP by its Spanish acronym) announced today on Twitter the event "60 Years of Sustaining Friendship", to be held this Thursday, December 17, online.

The results of the control to the substitution of food imports for the tourist industry and the fulfillment of the program of Natural and Traditional Medicine will be analyzed by the Cuban deputies to the National Assembly of the People's Power, as part of the meetings prior to the Sixth Session of its IX Legislature.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla expressed on Monday his condolences to the government and people of the Kingdom of Eswatini on the death of Prime Minister Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini.

The opinion on the State Budget Bill for 2021 was approved for its presentation in plenary session on the 17th of this month, as part of the legislative schedule of the Sixth Session of the Ninth Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power.