Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez had a phone conversation with Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly on the state of bilateral relations between their countries.

Cuban Premier Manuel Marrero sent a message of congratulations to the Vietnamese people on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of their independence.

Cuban authorities and institutions sent messages of support to Argentine vice president Cristina Fernandez and condemned the assassination attempt she was the victim of on Thursday, while she was greeting her supporters in the vicinity of her residence.
Army General and leader of the Revolution, Raul Castro Ruz, expressed his solidarity with the Peronist leader and described the attempt on her life as a reprehensible act.

The Forecast Center of the Cuban Institute of Meteorology in its Tropical Cyclone Warning No. 3, issued in the afternoon of this Thursday reported that Tropical Storm Danielle is intensifying.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel expressed his support to Argentinean Vice-president Cristina Fernández after a failed assassination attempt last night in Buenos Aires.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel met with several Italian businessmen and personalities to continue strengthening relations between the two countries and thanked them for their interest in investing in Cuba.

Cuban Parliament President Esteban Lazo extended his gratefulness to Ecuador’s National Assembly for having adopted a resolution condemning the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.

The Friends of Cuba in the US will not stop their supportive action against the policy of isolation and sanctions against the island, said in Havana Gloria La Riva, US journalist and activist.

The visit to Vietnam of Cuban first deputy foreign minister, Gerardo Peñalver Portal, included today meetings where both sides ratified the desire to strengthen ties.

The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Party and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, lamented today the death of Camilo Guevara March, one of the sons of Che and promoter of his ideas.

Being in Cuba and visiting researchers, knowing how they overcome limitations and shortages is a transforming experience, considered today Abby Martin, American documentary filmmaker and journalist, after a meeting with Cuban scientists at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB by its Spanish acronym), in Havana, Cuba's capital.

The 7th meeting of political consultations between Cuba and Vietnam took place today in the Asian country, chaired by the Cuban first deputy foreign minister, Gerardo Peñalver Portal, and his Vietnamese counterpart, Ha Kim Ngoc.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, ratified today Cuba's position in favor of the prohibition and cessation of all nuclear tests.

On the 75th anniversary of Cuba's joining the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO), Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Party's Central Committee and president of the country, ratified today his country's commitment to the organization, in the pursuit of peace and the promotion of sustainable development.