Cuba News Agency now reproduces the full text of the joint statement between the governments of the Republic of Cuba and the United States of America, signed in Havana on Thursday, January 12, 2017

In what has been considered Obama´s last move towards the improvement of US-Cuba relations before leaving the White House, he revoked the dry-feet, wet-feet policy, which encouraged Cuban illegal migration to the US, and the medical parole program, aimed at having Cuban doctors abandon their medical missions in other countries to leave for the United States.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), entity related to the UN system, gave Cuba a donation of mattresses and roof tiles for families affected by Hurricane Matthew in Guantanamo province.

A US religious delegation is currently on an official visit to Cuba with the objective of exchanging with their Cuban counterparts and explore possibilities for cooperation.

The Cuban Council of State, on the proposal made by its President Raul Castro, Vice Admiral Julio Cesar Gandarilla to the post of Interior Minister, replacing two-star General Carlos Fernandez Godin, who died on Friday at the age of 78.

The governments of Cuba and the United States signed in Havana an agreement on the readiness and answer to oil and other toxic substances spills in the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Straits.

The First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Havana, Mercedes Lopez Acea said on Sunday in the Cuban capital that the Freedom Caravan (Cavarana de la Libertad) is eternal and will mark the path the history of the Revolution.

The Meteorology Institute announced clouds to the northern coastal areas, some occasional rain in the north eastern region. The rest of the country will be partially and occasional cloudy with isolated rain.

The 2017 Campaign of Affidavit and Tax Payments begins today in Cuba, where about 200 000 Cubans will have to pay taxes on their personal income, including more than 170 000 self-employed workers.

Economic assessment of goods and ecosystem services and facing climate change in Matanzas, the island's most vulnerable province, are among the priorities of the local scientific community for 2017.

The implementation of the Cuban Literacy program called Yes I can constitute a method of great impact in over 30 countries among them Nicaragua.

Limitations on the availability of water affect the irrigation of crops such as sugar cane and rice because the reservoirs of Villa Clara province only store 455.5 million cubic meters of the liquid, for 45 percent of their total capacity.

The Electricity Company of the province of Sancti Spíritus executed during 2016 dissimilar investments with great economic and social impact, including those designed to sustain and increase the food program of the territory.

With the service available in the municipalities of Ciénaga de Zapata, Jovellanos, Calimete, Martí, Perico, Union de Reyes, Los Arabos, Pedro Betancourt and Limonar, the province of Matanzas begins the year 2017 with new Wi-Fi connection areas.

The Cuban National Seismological Research Center (CENAIS by its Spanish acronym) made a better use of science and technology to monitor seismic activity in addition to an application of an early warning system to alert the population in 2016.