Cuban deputies addressed the need to control the concentration of wealth in the non-state sector because such sector leads to the accumulation of property.

The country is currently facing a tense liquidity or cash situation, something which is not new, but which leads to taking a package of measures, said Economy minister Marino Murillo, who noted that vital services for the people will be preserved, as well as appropriate domestic monetary balance.

The General Comptroller of the Republic, Gladys Bejerano, said in this capital that no sustainable development in Cuba will be possible without control, during a speech to the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs of Parliament.

Ricardo Cabrisas, Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, received Ms. Elsa Maria Kristine Erlandsson Juarez, chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden in Cuba.

U.S. companies participating in the First Conference on International Money Transfers in Cuba, IMTC 2016, expressed their intention to establish links to manage remittances to the Caribbean Island.

A U.S. company took on, for the first time in over half a century, the management of a hotel in Havana, even though Washington continues to block investment and trade with Cuba.

The 12 th Latin American Congress on Bee production scheduled from July 18th to the 22nd at Havana's Convention Center with the participation of delegates from 20 countries will discuss the advances of sector in Cuba and region.

Ricardo Cabrisas, Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, and Peter Stenlund, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Finland, signed on Monday the agreement that regulates the debt of Official Development Assistance between the two states.

With the premise of contributing to knowledge and innovation, the 10th International Congress of Management and Public Administration, GESEMAP 2016, began on Tuesday and will run until June 30 at Havana's Convention Center.

Representatives of 28 companies belonging to the Free Trade Zone of the Dominican Republic, the largest mission organized by that country, explore business opportunities in Cuba seeking to strengthen bilateral economic ties.

The Cuban Council of Ministers, headed by President Raul Castro, analyzed the performance of Cuban economy in the first half of the year and its prospects for the rest of 2016. Such economic results will be submitted to the Cuban Parliament during its upcoming session next month.

Japan´s International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is actively supporting the implementation in Cuba of development projects in the areas of agriculture, energy, health and the environment.

Mogens Lykketoft, president of the seventieth period of sessions of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), highlighted today the example of Cuba in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by that body.

Cuba and Denmark signed an accord on Thursday to restructure their bilateral debt as part of a multilateral agreement reached by Cuba and its creditors at the Paris Club.