Having a proper planning we can help the municipalities to be autonomous, said the President of the Council of State and Ministers Miguel Diaz-Canel at the annual meeting of the Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP).

The Vice President of the Council of Ministers, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, met on Tuesday evening with Mrs. Gonca Yilmaz Batur, Deputy Minister of Commerce of the Republic of Turkey.

Bruno Rodriguez, Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, described as slander the recent statements of Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, who on Tuesday referred to the constitutional referendum that took place on Sunday on the island and concluded with the victory of the YES.

Marcelino Medina, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, leads the Cuban delegation attending the High-Level Segment of the XL Regular Session of the Human Rights Council.

On the morning of Tuesday, February 26, a Mig 21 aircraft of the Revolutionary Air Force crashed to the ground, due to technical problems, in the vicinity of the municipality of Güira de Melena, province of Artemisa, during a combat preparation exercise. The event did not cause damage in that town; the pilot is in good health.

Cuba will showcase its experience in advanced life support in the face of disasters during the VIII International Congress on Emergencies and Intensive Care (URGRAV 2019) to be held in the capital from March 4 to 6.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, called to defend peace in the Latin American and Caribbean region, in the context of the threat looming over Venezuela.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, highlighted in Twitter the victory of the Yes in the constitutional referendum that took place this Sunday in Cuba, as reported on Monday in Havana by the electoral authorities.

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez received the First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Titov, who is making a working visit to our country to chair the Meeting of Inter-chancellery Political Consultations between Cuba and Russia.

Over 6.8 million Cubans voted Yes last Sunday, thus ratifying the new Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, according to preliminary information offered Monday afternoon in Havana by Alina Balseiro, president of the National Electoral Commission.

The National Electoral Commission reported that until five o'clock in the Sunday afternoon over 7.5 million Cubans had gone to the polls, which represents 81.53 percent of the total registered voters in the updated lists.

Only two hours after the electoral colleges opened their doors, 2 690 419 people exercised their right to vote for the new Constitution of the Republic of Cuba.

In Venezuela, the independence and sovereignty of all is being defined today in addition to the validity of international law and that is why we support the process of that country, said Bruno Rodriguez, Cuba´s Minister of Foreign Affairs, when exercising his right to vote in the constitutional referendum.

Miguel Diaz Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, exercised in this city his right to vote in a historic day as he stated in a recent tweet: ¨# Cuba standing for the Yes to the Constitution and ratifying the support for the Bolivarian Revolution and President Nicolas Maduro.¨

At seven o'clock in the morning, thousands of electoral colleges opened their doors for the Cubans to countersign the new Magna Carta after an extensive process of collective construction that began almost a year ago.