Cuban deputy foreign minister Elio Rodriguez met on Wednesday with Botswana’s government officials and representatives of that country’s social sectors.

In statements to the media, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, denounced the U.S.-held Guantanamo naval base as a straight-out theft of Cuban sovereignty of the Antillean nation and pointed out that the military emplacement, which takes 117.6 square kilometers of Cuban territory, is just one of many regular attacks against Latin American independence.

Cuban deputy Foreign Minister Anayansi Rodriguez ratified Cuba’s unyielding commitment to Latin American and Caribbean integration during a Meeting of Coordinators with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

Gerardo Peñalver, Cuban first deputy foreign minister, urged in New York, to strengthen cooperation alliances to achieve universal access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and take advantage of their potential in promoting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The Trade Union Confederation of Workers Commissions (CCOO), from Spain, rejected the unjustified designation of Cuba as a country that sponsors terrorism, which prevails in the most recent United States report on this scourge.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, mourned the death of Italian intellectual Gianni Miná at 84, as a result of a heart disease.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez met on Monday with Mario Lubetk assistance director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The President of the Federation Council of Russia’s Federal Assembly (Parliament) Valentina Matvienko congratulated the President of the Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power, Esteban Lazo for the successful results of Sunday’s National Election.

Cuba is willing to keep promoting bilateral political dialog with France, said Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Monday.

A Cuban delegation headed by Cuban deputy minister of Foreign Affairs Elio Rodríguez Perdomo attended the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, held today in Pretoria.

In the context of the 28th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, the Report on South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Ibero-America was presented, which highlights the active role of Cuba with more than 300 initiatives, said Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, on Twitter today.

In the framework of the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, which is in session until today in New York, a Cuban delegation headed by deputy prime minister Ines Maria Chapman is carrying out an extensive work agenda with exchanges with authorities from other countries and international organizations.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Thursday that recent statements by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirm that the current US administration never had any intention to correct the unfair inclusion of Cuba on the US list of countries sponsors of terrorism.

Over 20 thousand citizens in the central city of Santa Clara took to the streets on Thursday to demonstrate for unity and against the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island.