Havana will host the 17th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) next December 14.

The Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress called on the United States Congress to end the commercial, economic and financial blockade against Cuba, in accordance with the Mexican government's position of rejection of unilateral measures inconsistent with international law.

Solidarity and human rights organizations in Switzerland submitted to the government and the federal parliament a demand for the authorities of that country to oppose and denounce the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba.

The Vice President of the House of Representatives of Japan, Akamatsu Hirotaka received today the Cuban Ambassador, Miguel Angel Ramirez, in his office at the National Diet Building, in Tokyo.

As he has already done in every country he has visited, the Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez exchanged this evening with the community of Cubans living in Argentina.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of Cuba, and his accompanying delegation attended today the swearing-in of Argentina's President-elect Alberto Fernandez and Vice President Cristina Fernandez.

Ines Maria Chapman, Cuba´s Vice President of the Council of Ministers, was received by the President of the Republic of Kenya, His Excellency Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, as part of her visit to that nation, where she represents Cuba at the 9th Summit of Heads of State and Government of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

The President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, arrived this Sunday evening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to attend the inauguration of the president-elect of that southern nation, Alberto Fernandez.

Giving continuity to fluid relationships between Cuba and France, the 4th Session of the Franco-Cuban Economic and Commercial Commission took place today with the aim of analyzing the implementation and follow up on the Bilateral Economic Agenda signed on February 1, 2016.

Ana Silvia Rodriguez, Deputy Permanent Representative of Cuba and Chargé d'Affaires a.i., Ambassador, spoke at the "High Level Meeting for the Midterm Review on the implementation of the Vienna Program of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014-2024", known as the Vienna Program of Action, at the UN headquarters.

HAVANA, Dec 4 (ACN) Titled "Our America in the face of the onslaught of imperialism and the oligarchies", the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement analyzing the current convulsed situation suffered by the people of Latin America and the Caribbean. Below is the full text of the document.

Audrey Azoulay, Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), will make an official visit to Cuba from next December 4.

Dr. Elisabeth Lovrek, honorary professor and president of the Austrian Supreme Court of Justice, held an exchange with her counterpart Ruben Remigio Ferro, president of the Cuban Popular Supreme Court.

Different activities were carried out by Cuban diplomats, collaborators and students in Vietnam to pay tribute to Fidel Castro on the third anniversary of his death.