Officials of the Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP by its Spanish acronym) welcomed today the members of the First of May Solidarity Brigade at the Julio Antonio Mella International Camp, located in the Artemisa municipality of Caimito(western region).

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban FM, denounced today the exclusion of the Caribbean island by the United States from the preparations for the 9th Summit of the Americas, to be held June 8-10 in the U.S. city of Los Angeles.

The President of the Cuban Parliament Esteban Lazo met on Tuesday with a delegation from the Women’s Union of Vietnam on the development of women in both nations.

Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal ratified its country’s commitment to the migration accords signed with the United States to guarantee and orderly, regular and safe emigration.

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro marked today the 61st anniversary of the Cuban triumph at Bay of Pigs, considered the first great defeat of imperialism in the Americas.

Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, deputy foreign minister, will lead the Cuban delegation to the round of migration talks with the United States, the foreign ministry announced today.

The Serbian couple made up of Sveto and Zorica Dobrijevic was granted in Belgrade Cuba’s Friendship Medal in acknowledgement of over 20 years supporting the island nation against the US economic, commercial and financial siege of the island nation.

The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Solidarity with Cuba launched a new campaign against the U.S. blockade of the island, according to members of that group in Panama.

Cuba ratified its willingness to continue consolidating the existing historical ties with the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as the ties of cooperation and friendship that unite both nations, on a day that marks the 48th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Cuba expressed its willingness to deepen brotherhood and cooperation links with the Caribbean island of Grenada as both countries marked on Thursday 43 years of diplomatic relations.

Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, said today on Twitter that the U.S. government’s practice of misinforming about human rights seeks to draw attention away from severe violations of its own population’s rights.

As part of the 20th International Conference on African and Afro-American Culture, diplomats from that continent held the panel Africa in the 21st century: challenges and perspectives.

Cuba was elected on Wednesday to four bodies of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Cuban Foreign Ministry announced.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote today on Twitter that Cuba is celebrating together with the Venezuelan people the 20th anniversary of the popular victory against the failed coup d'état of April 11, 2002 in that country.