Cuba’s alternate permanent representative at the United Nations Yusnier Romero thanked the UN Children Fund (UNICEF) for its support of the island’s efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cuban Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade and Investment Deborah Rivas denounced in Geneva the economic and social impact of the US blockade against her country.

Cuba has effectively controlled the spread of COVID-19 thanks to its system that places human being at the center of its policies, said Juan Antonio Quintanilla, the island’s Permanent Representative in Geneva during an interactive dialog on the state response to the pandemic.

The frigate ARA Libertad, training ship of the Argentine Navy, arrived in Cuba—on its third official visit since 1976—to strengthen the historic ties between the two Latin American nations.

 With the aim of strengthening economic, trade, investment and financial ties, the 4th Session of the Subcommittee on Cooperation between Cuba and the European Union (EU) began today in Havana.

A Cuban delegation will participate at the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), to be held June 12-15, in Geneva, Switzerland.

The voice of Cuba is present at the Summit of the Peoples, said Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel as he praised the gestures of support by activists who denounced the US economic blockade of Cuba at the forum held parallel to the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California.

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.