Cuba's Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, Elba Rosa Perez Montoya said on Monday in Havana that Cuba maintains close attention to environmental issues despite the US economic, financial and commercial blockade against the island.

Expressions in support of the Declaration of the Revolutionary Government on Washington's new policy towards Cuba was held in Hatibonico, town bordering the illegally occupied US Naval Base in Guantanamo during the launching of the new edition of the La Calle magazine.

Specialists of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) and the Physical Planning Institute are conducting a study with the objective of improving the road that link Trinidad to the city of Cienfuegos.

The Vice President of the Council of State, Salvador Valdes Mesa received on Wednesday in Havana the Foreign Minister from New Zealand, Gerry Brownlee who is on an official visit to the Caribbean island.

Cuban President Army General Raul Castro received Tuesday afternoon Fernando Huanacuni Mamani, Foreign Minister of Bolivia, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla and his counterpart from New Zealand, Gerry Brownlee expressed interests on Wednesday in Havana in strengthening bilateral relations in the political and economic sectors.

The cultural projects dedicated to the preservation of local identity in the province of Holguin, were presented on Tuesday in the city during the development of the 3rd Territorial Workshop on the subject.

The municipality of La Sierpa will be the site for the activities commemorating July 26th in the province of Sancti Spiritus thanks to the advances in the economic and social sectors above all the diversification of the agricultural productions and maternal-infant program.

Ciego de Ávila's sugarcane planters have cleared more than 12,000 hectares of marabou from 2014, no they are mostly planted with cane to increase the raw material for the coming harvest.

Yunior Reytor will be the only Cuban representative in the World Fencing Championship that will host the German city of Leipzig, from next July 19 to 26.

Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez held official talks on Wednesday in Rome with Italy's Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister, Angelino Alfano, reported Cubaminrex website.

Doctor Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, Scientific Advisor to the Council of State, exposed Cuba's experiences in the use of renewable energy at the World Science and Engineering Congress (WSEC-2017).

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) announced on Wednesday in Havana that the Cuba-US joint expedition along the island's coasts concluded with positive results.

Cuba reaffirmed on Tuesday in Havana its support and protection of refugees with a growth tendency in recent years due to conflicts on the occasion of World Refugee Day.

Mercedes Gzegozewski, Director of Environmental Management of the Havana Bay State Working Group, stressed how valuable it would be use taxes levied on polluting companies in that area to clean the bay´s waters.