Cuban Charge d’ Affairs in Austria Soraya Álvarez and the Director of Programs, Alliances and Coordination under the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Ciyong Zou signed on Thursday the 2021-2025 Cuba Country Program.

Mexico’s Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed on Thursday the existence of an accord with Cuba to purchase COVID-19 vaccines developed by the island nation.

As a result of a solidarity campaign in Australia, a donation of medical supplies to help fight COVID-19 will arrive in Cuba in the next few days.

Cuba’s Communist Party saluted the Workers’ Party of Korea on its 76th anniversary; the organization was founded October 10, 1945 by Kim Il-sung.

Iran’s Pasteur Institute reported that phase III clinical trials with the Cuban vaccines Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus confirmed 76,8 percent efficacy for a two-dose scheme and 91,7 percent for a three-doze scheme to prevent hospitalization for COVID-19 particularly against the Delta variant of the virus.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated this Thursday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin via telephone on the occasion of his 69th birthday.

Esteban Lazo, president of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba (Parliament), stressed his deep affection, admiration and respect for Africa, a continent with close historical, cultural, solidarity and brotherhood ties with Cuba.

Cuba ratified its commitment to contribute to debate on the basis of respect for national sovereignty and non-interference in a State’s internal affairs during its participation in the Conference of Ministers of Justice of Ibero-American countries (COMJIB).
First Deputy Minister of Justice Rosabel Gamón Verde wrote on her Twitter account that solidarity and cooperation must be the way to stand up to the new challenges facing the world.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, met with the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of Congo, Edith Delphine Emmanuel Née Adouki, currently on a working visit to the Island.

Cuba affirmed is commitment to the success of the UN Advising Committee as major mechanism to the promotion and protection of all human rights during the 48th session of the HR Council in Geneva.

Caribbean nations launched a joint waste water treatment project known as CARIBSAN, which uses local plants and environment-friendly innovative technology adapted to tropical conditions.

 Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, held an emotional meeting with young people from The People's Forum (The People's Forum), based in New York, United States.

Cuba and China are celebrating 61 years of bilateral relations, and according to Carlos Miguel Pereira, Cuban ambassador to the Asian nation, there is practically no field of ties without experiencing a dynamic of fluid growth and supported by a high level of communication.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, said today that the billions spent on weapons are shameful in the face of so much inequality in access to vaccines against COVID-19.