Vietnam will continue to strengthen cooperation with Cuba in order to ensure a stable supply of rice and encourage investments by companies from the South-East Asian country in Cuba, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc confirmed on Wednesday.

Cuba faces a complex international scenario marked by the tightening of the US blockade at scales never seen before, but continues to bet on the growth of its economy, said Juan Carlos Prego Regalado, First Vice President of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC), exclusively to ACN.

Havana is hosting today the second US-Cuba Business Conference, aimed at continuing the work begun in November 2018, in order to foster agricultural relations between the two countries.

The Cuban delegation to the 37th Session of the Intergovernmental Commission with Vietnam met today with executives of several local companies that do business with Cuba or are interested in doing so.

The Prime Minister of Vietnam, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, received on Tuesday in Hanoi the Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment of Cuba, Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz.

Habanos Corporation S.A. will launch the Quai D'Orsay Senadores Limited Edition on September 12 in France, through its distributor in that country Coprova and Seita Cigares.

Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra Diaz began a working visit to Cameroon on Monday, extending until Tuesday.

The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US government against Cuba for almost six decades is the most unjust, tough and long-lasting system of unilateral sanctions applied against any country, Cubaminrex website reported Monday.

Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, announced today that Cuba and Laos plan to sign a cooperation agreement late this year, Prensa Latina reported.

The Second Joint Council between Cuba and the European Union (EU) is a clear expression of the progress achieved in the exchange with Europe, the consolidation of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement as the regulatory framework for bilateral relations and the strengthening of the respectful and clear tie.

The Spanish foreign-owned company BM Interinvest Technologies Mariel, S.L.U. Group was established in the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), official sources reported.

Banco Metropolitano will grant an 8% discount on all purchases and service payments made by customers through Point of Sale (POS) terminals from September 9 to 11, to encourage the use of debit cards as a means of electronic payment in establishments and commercial offices.

Representatives of several companies participate in the Business Forum in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) between Cuba and the United States in order to strengthen ties and create collaboration.

Emilio Lozada García, Director General of Bilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Cuba and the European Union will continue to work "with respect, trust, transparency and cooperation" in a Joint Committee that evaluates the implementation of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) signed by both parties in 2016.