Cuba and its fight against the US economic, commercial and financial blockade is one of the priorities of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), Ernesto Freyre, regional coordinator of the organization, said today.

Benjamin Amar, leader of the French General Confederation of Labor (CGT, acronym in French), condemned the US blockade against Cuba and its tightening, a policy he described as unacceptable.

Marcia Cobas, Cuba's Deputy Minister of Health, and Emine Alp Mese, her Turkish counterpart, had a fruitful exchange on the possibilities of joint cooperation in medical services and biotechnological products.

Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas concluded his working visit to the Russian Federation, where he developed an intense program, including the meeting of the bilateral Intergovernmental Commission and consultations with the Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) to analyze the request for the Caribbean island as an Observer State of that body.

Cuba will participate today in the high-level meeting on the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women to review the application of women's rights throughout the world.

The Party of the European Left (PEL) has prioritized both support to Cuba and the strengthening of the international solidarity movement with the Caribbean island, its president, Heinz Bierbaum, said in a press release.

Russia and Cuba reinforced energy, banking and health cooperation after meetings between Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas and officials from those fields in the Russian capital.

Cuban deputy prime minister Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz continued on Monday his intense agenda in Russia, where he met with Energy Minister Alexander Novak, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko and Ksenia Yudaeva, first deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia.

Nicaraguan foreign minister Denis Moncada condemned on Monday before the 75th UN General Assembly the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba almost six decades ago.

Cuba has condemned at the UN Human Rights' Council the offensive comments of the non-governmental organization Engineers of the World, a political attack that is part of the US crusade against the island.

The Cuban foreign ministry (MINREX by its Spanish acronym) highlighted Tuesday on Twitter the continuity of the bilateral relations between this country and the European Union (EU), 32 years after their establishment.

Cuban ambassador to Japan, Miguel Angel Ramirez, held an exchange with Matsumoto Kenichi, founder and president of the Matsumoto Foundation, which since 2013 fosters the development of international medical personnel.

The article Attack against the Cuban Embassy to Washington. The complicit silence, written by Alexis Bandrich Vega, Cuban ambassador to Iran, had great repercussion in the press of that Islamic Republic, according to the Cuban foreign ministry.

The Red Verdad (Truth Network) project, driven by a group of academicians, scientists and activists from different social movements, was born as an initiative to build a platform of contemporary ethical thinking to elaborate serious opinions about the fake problem, Professor Fernando Buen Abad said.