President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel held a meeting on Monday afternoon with several US executives the during his visit to Google's headquarters in New York, which was described as informative and fruitful.

In order to achieve a world in which peace and the peaceful solution of conflicts prevails, it is urgent to address the root causes that generate them, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said in New York City, at the Peace Summit convened by the United Nations.

The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel, will speak this Monday for the first time in the sessions of the Peace Summit, convened by the United Nations to pay tribute to the South African leader Nelson Mandela.

The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel, arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York to participate in the General Debate of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and José Ramón Machado Ventura, First and Second Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Party, respectively, saw off this Sunday morning the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel, who left for New York at the head of the Cuban delegation that will participate in the General Debate of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly.

At the stroke of two o'clock in the afternoon, the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel, arrived at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations, located on the bustling avenue of Lexington.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel met U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, who is on a trip to Havana to discuss bilateral relations and other matters of common interest.

José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and head of its International Relations Department was received at the headquarters of the Grand People's Palace by You Quan, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and head of the United Front Department.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, received on Wednesday in Havana, the Republican Senator from the State of Tennessee Robert Corker, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. Senate, who is visiting Cuba accompanied by two of his legislative assistants.

A plant run by the newly created Cuban-Italian joint venture Vidrios Mariel S.A, to be built in the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), will cover 70 percent of the country´s demand of glass containers for beverages, drugs and other uses.

Beatriz Johnson, vice president of Cuba´s State Council, arrived today in the Russian city of St. Petersburg to attend the 2nd Eurasian Women's Forum, sponsored by the Federation Council (Russian Senate), reported Prensa Latina (PL) news agency.

Authorities of the Institute of Civil Aeronautics of Cuba (IACC) reported on Wednesday that it has recovered almost all the information from the black boxes of the Boeing 737-200 that crashed in Havana last May 18.

Cuba's Vice President of the Council of States and Ministers Ines Maria Chapman met on Monday with the Minister of Foreign Relations and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey who is on an official visit to the Caribbean island.

With the aim of signing a Sports Collaboration Agreement, Mario Augusto Perez, General Director of the Panamanian Institute of Sports (PANDEPORTES by its Spanish acronym), started today an official visit to Cuba.

Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Ghana´s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, will begin a visit to Cuba today, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Caribbean island.