The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) offered an updated preliminary balance of the region during 2020, according to which this year the region's economy will contract by 7.7 percent.

Josefina Vidal, Cuban Ambassador to Canada, held on Tuesday a virtual meeting with Senator Peter Boehm, Chairman of the Permanent Committee of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Senate of that country, whom she thanked for his permanent interest in Cuba.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 15 (ACN) The 18th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance of the People of America-Treaty of Commerce of the People (ALBA-TCP), held virtually and chaired from Caracas by the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, renewed the commitment to strengthen this mechanism of political agreement.

The parliamentary group of friendship with Cuba and a delegation of the Serbian-Cuban friendship association held on Monday an exchange to coordinate different actions in support of the Cuban people.

Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa Abdulaziz Al Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Qatar, received on Monday morning Eumelio Caballero, Cuban ambassador to that Arab nation, with whom he exchanged views on the state of bilateral relations between the two governments.

Speaking this Monday at the XVIII Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Republic of Cuba, called for coordinated ideas and actions to continue advancing cooperation, solidarity, unity and the defense of peace in the region.

The 18th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) will take place Monday, online, and will address issues such as the regional political situation and the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Cuba reaffirmed its solidarity with the Pacific Islands and reiterated the urgency of taking urgent action and making more serious commitments to help mitigate or eliminate the effects of climate change, speaking at the High-Level Dialogue on the Need for Urgent Action on Climate Change, organized virtually by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIF).

The Cuban embassy to South Africa, on behalf of the people and government it represents, honored veteran South African anti-apartheid fighter Joan Muller, Prensa Latina reported.

With the nomination of parliamentarian Richard Burgon to the Henry Reeve medical contingent brigades for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, the Cuban health workers who offered help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic receive the tenth request for this prize from the UK parliament.

Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the Virtual Summit on Climate Ambition, December 12, 2020. 

The XVIII Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), will be held on December 14, 2020 online, with the participation of the Heads of State and Government of the member countries and other representatives.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke on Friday at a meeting by videoconference of the Eurasian Economic Union (UEE), an organization of which Cuba became an observer state.

Shortly after the announcement of the beginning of the process of monetary order on January 1, 2021, the international press agencies echoed the news, which was explained this Thursday by the highest Cuban authorities in a television and radio address.