Cuba and Vietnam signed today in Hanoi the protocol of the 37th Session of the Intergovernmental Commission between the two nations, Prensa Latina reported.

The first joint venture between Cuba and Russia for the production of applicable composite materials will be established in the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), according to an agreement signed in Havana.

The Cuban Union of Journalists denounced the mass blocking of accounts by the US social network Twitter as another aggression against the island-nation.

Eduardo Rodriguez Davila, Minister of Transport, announced that public passenger transport will be reorganized throughout the country in order to palliate the short-term lack of diesel Cuba is facing these days due to the US blockade.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, announced short-term organizational measures to mitigate the impact on the population of the shortages of oil effects by the intensification of the U.S. blockade against Cuba.

Solidarity of the Cuban people with other nations continues as an important principle of the Revolution, despite the tightening of the U.S. government's policy of blockade against the Caribbean island.

Cuba is a Latin American and Caribbean model for the use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES), Jolita Butkeviciene, European Union Cooperation Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, said today in Havana.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Benin, Aurelien Agbenonci, welcomed today in a working meeting the Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rogelio Sierra Diaz, during his official visit to this African country, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs website points out.

Cuba is developing a program aimed at increasing aquaculture production, limited by the lack of resources and the deterioration of facilities, national media reported Wednesday.

The technological reconversion process from analog to digital telephone plants is progressing at a good rhythm in Villa Clara with a chronogram that will benefit even the clients of the most intricate towns in the region, with completion date on November 15.

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, president of the Councils of States and Minister, highlighted today on Twitter the good state of Cuba's relations with the Vatican.

The president of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, had a cordial meeting with Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints of the Holy See.

The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, received on Tuesday afternoon comrade Hoang Trung Hai, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam and secretary of the Party in Hanoi, invited by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
During his stay the Vietnamese leader will carry out an extensive work program, which includes meetings with party leaders and social organizations, as well as visits to historical and socioeconomic places of interest.

Some 176 foreign and national participants who have so far confirmed their attendance at TURNAT 2019, the most important nature tourism event in Cuba, to be held from September 24 to 28.

Rogelio Sierra Diaz, Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, began a three-day working visit to Benin.