The vice president of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), Ana Maria Mari Machado, paid tribute today to Cuba's National Hero, Jose Marti, on the second day of the official parliamentary visit being made by a Cuban delegation to Turkey.

Cuba and Uganda affirm on Monday their willingness to expand cooperation links and keep deepening political and diplomatic relations, based on historic bonds of friendship and solidarity.

The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, thanked on Twitter the friends in solidarity who participated on Sunday in a new international day against the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States more than 60 years ago to our country.

Activities were organized in several cities around the world as part of the campaign against the U.S. blockade of Cuba, according to the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

The France Cuba association demanded the lifting of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of the Island and described it as a genocidal policy intended to topple the Revolution.

The Belgian government donated 29 buses to Havana which will be used to reinforce public transportation in the Cuban capital and to support cultural institutions.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel, congratulated Dickon Mitchell on his election as Prime Minister of Grenada.

A delegation of the National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) of Cuba, headed by its secretary, Homero Acosta, began today a working visit to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Cuban foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, exchanged today at the Parliament of Equatorial Guinea with the first vice president of the Senate, Angel Serafin Seriche Dougan, and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Gaudencio Mohaba Mesu.
Rodriguez Parrilla stressed on Twitter that the meetings confirmed the mutual interest in deepening parliamentary ties, and ratified the friendship and solidarity bonds that unite both countries.

Top representatives of the botanical gardens of Cuba and Thailand signed a Memorandum of Understanding in that Southeast Asian country, in what constitutes a strengthening of mutual cooperation.

Cuba and Russia confirmed on Thursday their determination to keep deepening bilateral cooperation links in the economic-commercial and scientific-technical areas.

Cuba and Russia confirmed their willingness to continue deepening their ties for bilateral economic, commercial and scientific-technical cooperation during the meeting of the intergovernmental Commission headed by Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz and Russian Vice President Yuri Borisov.

Forty U.S. students led by project Bridges of Love coordinator Carlos Lazo arrived in Cuba on a solidarity trip to bring powdered milk for children’s hospitals.