The French government included Cuba in its green list of nations and territories with insignificant or moderate transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (which causes COVID-19), and with the absence of emerging variants of concern.

The Emirati English-language newspaper The National praised the anti-COVID-19 vaccines created by Cuba, which it describes as far beyond its possibilities as a Third World country.

The World Peace Council Executive Secretary Iraklis Tsavdaridis will kick off an official visit to Cuba next Wednesday, February 23, to further strengthen the agenda in favor of peace.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, described today as irrational and unsustainable the capitalist patterns of production and consumption and considered that they threaten the future of humanity.

Russia Prime Minister Yuri Borisov will visit Cuba on Friday, February 18 to talk the continuation of intergovernmental exchange on trade and economic cooperation.

Europe-based Cubans used the platform Juntos X Cuba to organize various actions against the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade.

The Cuba-France Cooperation Association, CubaCoop, urged French President Emmanuel Macron to work in the context of the European Union for the lifting of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.

Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Politburo of Cuba’s Communist Party and Secretary of the Party’s Central Committee welcomed the President of Spain’s Communist Party Jose Luis Centella Gomez.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, said today on Twitter that the United States, with a larger number of prisoners than any other country (more than two million), lacks the authority to judge the penal system of other states.

Cuba works from a deep feeling of love for humanity, said today on Twitter Sira Rego, spokeswoman of the United Left Party and vice president of the group The Left in the European Parliament.

Member of the European Parliament Sandra Pereira, a militant of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and vice president of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat), has on several occasions defended the reality of Cuba, from the podium of the European Parliament and in other international scenarios.

MP Fofana Queita, head of the permanent commission for public works, housing, transport, energy, science and technology, and of the parliamentary group of friendship with our country at the National People's Assembly of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, visited the seat of the Cuban parliament on Wednesday.

Cuba congratulated today the people and the government of the Republic of Benin, on the occasion of the celebration Tuesday of the 48th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two nations.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, mourned today the loss of human lives and other damages caused by a flood that occurred on Monday in Quito, Ecuador, with a preliminary death toll of 21 people.