Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla remarked today that the People’s Summit in Los Angeles condemns the U.S. blockade under the call “Let Cuba live", echoed by many who demand the White House to put an end to this 63-plus year old policy that stifles the Cuban economy and its people.

Washington announced on Wednesday the lifting of restrictions on group people-to-people trips to Cuba along with family remittances, two measures previously imposed by the former US Donald Trump administration.

The strengthening of economic relations with Belarus can be the gateway for Cuban products to that European region, according to Inalvis Bonachea Gonzalez, Europe Trade Policy director of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment of Cuba, during the 10th meeting of the Cuban-Belarusian Intergovernmental Commission for economic and commercial cooperation currently taking place in this city—13 years after it was last held—between the working groups of the two countries, who also discussed issues related to the industrial, agri-food and banking-financial sectors.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador urged rejection of interventionism and disrespect for the independence and sovereignty of nations, in light of President Joe Biden's decision to exclude Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the IX Summit of the Americas.

The Summit of the Peoples, a civil society forum running June 8-10, parallel to the Summit of the Americas in L.A., will address the urgent need to lift the over-60-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.

The Network in Defense of Humanity predicted the failure of the 9th Summit of the Americas underway in Los Angeles, due to its exclusion of some countries of this hemisphere.

The absence of several key Latin American leaders at the 9th Summit of the Americas could affect hemispheric efforts to reach migration accords with the United States, reads an article on the “Pensando en Cuba,” (Thinking Cuba) webpage https://twitter.com/PensarAmericas.

Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo, Cuban deputy foreign minister, and her Belarusian counterpart, Evgeny Shestakov, chaired today the inter-foreign political consultations, in the framework of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The Network for the Defense of Humanity today questioned, from its communication platform Pensando Americas, the decision of the U.S. government not to invite three nations to the 9th Summit of the Americas, for allegedly being anti-democratic.

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, said today on Twitter that the People's Summit will be the real transcendental political event to be held in Los Angeles, June 8 to 10.

In the framework of the World Telecommunications Development Conference, held in Kigali, Rwanda, the deputy minister of the sector in Cuba, Ernesto Rodriguez Hernandez, exchanged with a delegation from Uganda to identify common projects.

Cuba's results in labor and social security were presented today by the minister of the sector on the island, Marta Elena Feito Cabrera, during the plenary session of the International Labor Conference, which is in session in Geneva, Switzerland.

Cuba ratified today its commitment to the International Labor Organization (ILO) and its mandates, during the plenary session of the 110th International Labor Conference, held in Geneva, Switzerland.