HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 22 (ACN) Cuba urged today at the High-Level Segment of the Conference on Disarmament that this forum should fulfill its mandate to negotiate multilateral treaties on disarmament and give priority to nuclear disarmament.

Cuba will participate virtually in the High-Level Segments of the UN Conference on Disarmament and the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, according to the Cubaminrex website.

Cuba's Permanent Representative to the UN, Pedro Luis Pedroso was elected to the vice-chair of the world body's Especial Decolonization Committee, during a meeting in New York.

Cuba recognizes and shares the efforts of the International Fund for Agricultural Development --IFAD--and calls for the cease of the economic blocking of rural development.

Cuba’s permanent representative at the United Nations Ana Silvia Rodriguez said that her country backs the strengthening of the leading role of the UN National Assembly in its capacity as the main normative, deliberative, policy-making and representation body of the United Nations.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla underscored today the responsibility of the States with the social protection of their citizens and the provision of means to face crises and save lives.

Businessmen, academicians, journalists and members of solidarity organizations from Japan showed great interest in the monetary ordering process in Cuba, during an online conference on the issue.

The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stressed the advancement of four Cuban COVID 19 candidate vaccines as he delivered the closing remarks at the 6th People’s Assembly of that European country.

 Under the slogan Unblock Cuba, new actions will take place in Belgium in rejection of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government on Cuba.

On the occasion of the 54th anniversary of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla highlighted today Latin America and the Caribbean as a leading region in nuclear disarmament.

The Cuban drug Heberprot-P benefits today thousands of Venezuelan patients with diabetic foot ulcers, with a notable impact on the reduction of amputations, expert Rafael Marcos Pimentel, coordinator of the Good Living for Diabetics Program, remarked to Prensa Latina.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said today on Twitter that the truth is prevailing in the legal action against former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Representatives of Cuba and the World Food Program (WFP) ratified their unyielding and effective commitment to the Cuban people´s food security and sovereignty.

 Over fifty political, religious and business organizations in the United States sent a joint letter to the Joe Biden administration calling for the immediate rollback of the failed policies enforced by the former Donald Trump government against Cuba.