Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez kicked off an official visit to France, third leg of a European tour which previously included visits to Serbia and France.

At a meeting in Rome, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu praised the excellent bilateral cooperation links between Cuba and this UN agency.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is paying an official visit to Serbia as par of his current European tour which already took him to Italy.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and the director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Qu Dongyu, in a meeting held today in Rome, Italy, expressed their satisfaction with the excellent bilateral cooperation relations.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, ratified today the common interest in strengthening high-level political dialogue and expanding economic, trade and investment ties.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, leading a delegation from the island visiting Italy, met today with businessmen from that European country.

Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), said that the visit to the island of a delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( VCP) will further strengthen ties between the two political formations.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez held a private audience with Pope Francis, Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, the Foreign Ministry of the Caribbean nation reported on Facebook.

"The bells that toll today for those who die of hunger every day, will toll tomorrow for the whole of humanity if it did not want, did not know how or could not be wise enough to save itself".

The Cuban Institute of Meteorology ( INSMET) reported today on the formation of tropical depression Three, in the morning hours in the area of low pressure located in open waters of the central Atlantic Ocean.

The solidarity and friendship between the people of Cuba and Italy give strength to the 120 years of diplomatic relations, said today Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Caribbean nation, upon his arrival in Rome, where he begins a program of visits that includes the Holy See, Italy and Serbia.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived today in Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome, Italy, the first destination of a tour of Europe, scheduled to last until June 24.

The visit of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel to Europe has among its main destinations Paris, venue of the "Summit for a new Global Financial Pact" on the 22nd and 23rd, where he will participate as President of the Group of 77 + China, as confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba.

Pham Minh Chinh, Prime Minister of Vietnam, ratified today that his country will do everything possible to support Cuba, during a meeting with the island's Minister of Justice, Oscar Silvera, who is making a working visit to the Indochinese nation.