A visit to Cuba will give President Barack Obama great pleasure and especially Havana, asserted at a press conference in Washington the spokesman of the White House, Josh Earnest.

As a new round of peace talks between the Colombian guerrilla and the government kicked off in Havana on Thursday, President Juan Manuel Santos announced that foreign minister Maria Angela Holguin and a renowned business man will reinforce the official delegation in an effort to step up the peace process.

The Cuban Interest Section in Washington D.C. announced the resumption of its banking services, which will guarantee the normal performance of that entity and will allow offering full consular services.

Some US media have hurried to announce that a North Miami bank has agreed to open an account for the Cuban Interest Section in Washington, a services that the office has not had for one year now.

Executives with the new Engage Cuba coalition, a group designed to lobby at the US Congress to achieve the lifting of the US´s Cuba travel and trade ban, said that a majority of Americans support a change of US policy towards the Caribbean nation.

Before winding up a three-day visit to Cuba, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, granted Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro the Order of the Serbian Republic, and described his meeting with Fidel as a dream come true.

Myrta Kaulard, resident coordinator of the United Nations to Cuba, acknowledged on Wednesday in this capital the island's contribution to the strengthening of South-South cooperation in order to promote the social development of the continent.

Salvadoran foreign minister, Hugo Martinez, confirmed on Tuesday that President Salvador Sanchez Ceren will pay an official visit to Cuba May 26 and 27 to advance trade and cooperation relations with the island.

The Cuban delegation to the third round of talks with the United States arrived in Washington on Tuesday afternoon, with the aim of continuing bilateral talks, focusing this time on the process of reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

Cuba has been our friend in the good and the bad times, said Pan-African Parliament member Laura Mcleod-Katjirua during a session of that organization.

Participants at a scientific conference in Kiev urged the Ukrainian government and parliament to do what is necessary to resume the Cuban medical attention of the children affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.

For the first time in 15 years, the US administration has authorized the participation of US boats in a yacht race in Cuba. Some twenty US boats have come to Cuba from Key West for the Havana Challenge Yacht race to be held on the Havana coast.

HAVANA, Cuba, May 14 (acn) On May 14, the Cuban Foreign Ministry released the following information note:

When Kenneth Douglas graduated as a major in Physical Culture in 2007 he returned to his native St. Kitts and Nevis, but with the dream of one day returning to Cuba as ambassador of his country.