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Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla rejected on Wednesday the statement by a senior Pentagon official quoted by the U.S. magazine Newsweeek about an alleged drug trafficking operation between Cuba and Venezuela.
Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), called for strengthening international cooperation to tackle the new coronavirus pandemic.
Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, ratified this Thursday the island's full support to the World Health Organization (WHO by its Spanish acronym) and its director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as well as to the work of the Organization in the fight against COVID-19.
Nicaragua received an additional 8,000 doses of Interferon Alpha 2B, produced by the Cuban Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB by its Spanish acronym), the government of that Central American nation confirmed in a press release.
The United Nations General Assembly recently approved the Resolution entitled "Global solidarity to fight the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19)", which was proposed by a group of countries, including Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and co-sponsored by Cuba.
The text, which was adopted by tacit consensus, is a call for unity, solidarity and international cooperation to tackle this pandemic, which has caused considerable loss of life and suffering, reports the Cubaminrex website.
Cuba demonstrates its commitment to international solidarity by providing assistance to territories affected by the COVID-19, although it faces difficulties in importing medical materials due to U.S. restrictions, the leading Chinese daily Global Times reported Wednesday.
Marie Tumba Nzeza, state minister and minister of foreign affairs of the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC), received on Thursday the Cuban ambassador to this African country, Eva Yelina Silva Walker.
Rogelio Sierra Diaz, Cuban deputy minister of foreign affairs, said on Thursday that solidarity among people and governments is the only possible answer to tackle COVID-19.
Two weeks after the arrival in Nicaragua of a brigade of Cuban specialists from the Henry Reeve Contingent to cooperate in the implementation of protocols for the control, confrontation and treatment of the COVID-19, the head of the delegation affirms they have developed an intense work in the communities of that nation.
The COVID-19 pandemic have worsened the economy of all countries. For this reason, international organizations assess and propose some measures to be taken into account in order to overcome the current situation, and those adopted in Cuba are in line with these.
