Angel Villa, Cuban ambassador to the African Union (AU), attended today the virtual cycle of the African diaspora named the Sixth Region, as part of an online event of the political body that brings together the member states of the third largest continent in the world.

The humanistic projection and friendly vocation of Cuban medicine will be debated today on social networks, with the participation of Cuban Ambassador to France Elio Rodriguez and intellectual Ignacio Ramonet.

Cuba is celebrating today the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer by rewarding the work carried out by 12 institutions in the definitive removal of pollutants in the Earth's stratosphere.

Cuba has been elected to occupy several seats in subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) as of January 2021, reported the website of the Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry.

The World Poetry Movement (WPM) supported the proposal for the registration and granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Cuban medical contingent Henry Reeve, extending the recognition to all health workers in the world, heroes of the fight against COVID-19.

The United Nations advocated the need to fulfill the commitment to build stronger and more resilient societies by warning of the global recovery from the social and economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 11 (ACN) Elio Rodriguez Perdomo, Cuban ambassador to France, highlighted his nation's support to other countries with the sending of more than 40 medical brigades abroad in the midst of the pandemic by COVID-19 during an interview with the French Communist Party's newspaper, L'Humanite.

Ana Silvia Rodriguez Abascal, the Cuban representative to the United Nations, said Friday that the economic, financial and commercial blockade that the United States is imposing on Cuba is contrary to a culture of peace.

Audrey Azoulay, director general of UNESCO, honored on Thursday the former historian of Havana, PhD Eusebio Leal, for his commendable work in the restoration and preservation of the heritage.

Cuba ratified on Thursday its support to the Caribbean nations and its commitment to the Agenda 2030 goals on Sustainable Development during its participation in the 28th Session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC).

Cuban deputy minister of foreign trade and foreign investment, Deborah Rivas Saavedra, will participate this afternoon in the 28th Session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), announced the local foreign ministry.

Juha-Pekka Vaisanen, president of the Finnish communist party, praised on Wednesday Cuba's permanent solidarity, by sending internationalist doctors to dozens of countries to fight COVID-19, while trying to develop a national vaccine against the coronavirus causing the pandemic.

Abderrahmane Benbouzid, Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, received Armando Vergara, Cuban ambassador to that African country, at the ministry's headquarters in the Algerian capital.

A Cuban delegation will participate in the eighth session of the General Assembly of UNESCO´s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, to be held from September 8-10, at the organization's headquarters in Paris.