The Nicaraguan government has asked Cuba, Mexico and El Salvador to send experts to study the seismic swarm registered in the western side of the country, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.

Environmental protection and prevention of natural disasters, health, civil aviation, law implementation and enforcement, the struggle against drug trafficking and human trafficking, and transnational crime, are among the top issues that experts from Cuba and the United States will begin to discuss starting from coming weeks.

Cuba and Micronesia established diplomatic relations during the 46th Forum of the Pacific Islands, held in Papua New Guinea.

Mexico´s Interject airlines has announced two new connections, Mexico-Varadero and Monterrey-Havana, to begin operating October 15 in tune with increasing tourist demand and to strengthen relations with Cuba.

The recent reauthorization by US President Barack Obama of Cuba´s listing on the Trading with the Enemy Act allows him to keep using executive powers to further ties with the Caribbean nation.

Vietnam´s President Truong Tan Sang met on Wednesday with members of friendship organizations, including the Cuban representatives, who held in Hanoi city, the 7th Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting in Solidarity with Cuba.

The first meeting of the US-Cuba Bilateral Commission will take place September 11 in Havana to define an agenda to be considered following the reestablishment of bilateral relations between the two countries.

The European Union and Cuba are holding in Havana the fifth round of talks September 9 and 10 towards a political and cooperation accord.

Cuba will participate at the 14th General Assembly of the Parliamentary Confederation of The Americas to take place September 9-11 in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, in which 15 countries have already confirmed attendance.

A delegation of Cuban professionals will go to Argentina next Tuesday to participate in the 22nd Congress of the Latin American Society of Weeds (ALAM by its Spanish acronym) and the 1st Argentinean Weed Congress (ASACIM).

The Vice President of the State Council Salvador Valdes Mesa, who headed the Cuban delegation to the 10th Summit of Petrocaribe, thanked the hospitality the delegation of the island received in Jamaica.

First Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea, Kim Jong Un, received Cuba´s First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who is on an official visit to North Korea to mark the 55 anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The demand abroad of Cuban professors of different subjects relevant to technical education has increased this year, thus bringing financial benefits to the island´s Education system.

Cuban first vice-president Miguel Diaz Canel said in Beijing that relations between Cuba and China are historical and on that basis they develop supported by the political will of the leaders of the two nations in all stages of the revolutionary processes that take place in both countries.