During a meeting between Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and Russian VP Dmitry Chernyshenko, both countries ratified their will to strengthen economic, commercial and scientific-technical cooperation.

Cuban Premier Manuel Marrero Cruz is heading the island’s delegation to the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council taking place June 8 and 9 in the Russian city of Sochi.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez regretted on Tuesday the recent loss of human lives and property damage caused by heavy rains and a 4.9 quake in Haiti.

Visiting US entrepreneurs Marx Baum and Jorge Ignacio Fernandez stressed their interest in doing business with Cuba in the food sector and other areas despite the restrictions and measures imposed by the over-60-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island nation.

Russia is willing to collaborate to strengthen bilateral cooperation with Cuba in education, said today in Moscow the Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education, Valeri Falkov, at a meeting with the Cuban heads of higher education, Walter Baluja, and education, Naima Trujillo.

The U.S. community organization LELO (Legacy of Equality, Leadership, and Organization) awarded activist Carlos Lazo, coordinator of the Puentes de Amor solidarity movement—one of the most active organizations in the fight against the U.S. blockade of Cuba—for his humanitarian work.

 Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez congratulated Dennis Francis for having been elected President of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Gerardo Peñalver, first deputy foreign minister of Cuba, and Naledi Pandor, minister of international relations and cooperation of South Africa, ratified today the willingness to strengthen political dialogue and cooperation between the two nations.
As reported by the foreign ministry on its website, the meeting took place in a friendly atmosphere in the context of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers Friends of the BRICS.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz heads the delegation that will attend the inauguration ceremony of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of the Republic of Türkiye, scheduled to take place this Saturday.

Cuba’s first deputy foreign minister Gerardo Peñalver, who is also permanent representative at the United Nations, ratified the solidarity bonds uniting the peoples of Cuba and South Africa.

Gerardo Peñalver Portal, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, will participate this Friday in the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Friends of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), to be held in Cape Town, South Africa.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla congratulated former Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics on his election as President of the Republic of Latvia.

Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, Hero of the Republic of Cuba and National Coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), laid a wreath at the foot of the monument unveiled in Moscow in November 2022 in honor of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

A Cuban delegation headed by first deputy Foreign Trade and Investment minister Ana Teresita Gonzalez is attending the 21st Session of the United Nations High-Level Committee on South-South Cooperation.