National coordinators of all 22 countries represented at the 24th Ibero-American Summit are preparing the final declaration of the forum, along with other documents, said Cuban national coordinator Pedro Nuñez.

The Panamanian government on Thursday officially invited Cuban President Raul Castro to the Summit of the Americas, which will be hosted by that central American nation April 10-11, 2005, the Panamanian Foreign Ministry announced.

Cuban charge d´ affairs in Russia, Natacha Diaz, presented the island´s child education program and its meeting of the Conventions of the Right of the Child during a forum at Moscow´s University of Arts.

The Cuban medical brigade offering services in Asunción, Paraguay, has administered over 2 thousand eye surgeries this year as its members ready to hold the first Cuba-Paraguay Joint Scientific Conference underway this week.

Colombia´s Revolutionary Armed Forces-People´s Army (FARC-EP) announced on their website www.pazfarc-ep.org the activation of a special humanitarian protocol to release on Sunday General Alzate Mora, chief of the Colombian Army´s Titan Task Force, corporal Rodriguez Contrera and lawyer Gloria Urrego, who were held captive by the guerrillas in a war zone on November 16.

The US Semester at Sea academic program is paying its second visit to Havana on Saturday since the trips resumed in December 2013 after nine years of absence from the Cuban capital as a result of travel restrictions imposed by the George W. Bush administration.

Representatives of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (Conicet) of Argentina and Havana's Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) signed on Thursday 17 scientific cooperation agreements for the next few years.

Haiti´s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe stressed the need for regional countries to keep struggling shoulder to shoulder for the wellbeing of their peoples as Havana readies to host the 5th Summit of Cuba and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) on December 8.

Officials with the US Defense Department said that all has been set to transfer more detainees over the next few weeks from the prison camp located at the US naval base in the occupied Cuban territory of Guantanamo, despite opposition by Republicans.

Colombia´s Revolutionary Armed Forces-Peoples´ Army (FARC-EP) said in Havana that after the release of General Ruben Dario Alzate trust must prevail between the parties in the framework of the peace dialog underway in the Cuban capital.

Cubans residents in The Netherlands held their 3rd National Forum this month in The Hague, and issued a declaration demanding the end of the over-50-year US blockade against their homeland and the release of three Cuban anti-terrorist fighters held in US prisons since 1998.

Havana has great possibilities to be one of the seven wonder cities of modern world, asserted on Tuesday Jean Paul de la Fuente, head of Value Development of the New 7 Wonder Foundation of Switzerland, who is on a visit to Cuba until Thursday.

Cuban doctor Felix Baez, who got the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, is making progress as the presence of the virus in his blood has significantly reduced, according to the medical team assisting him at Geneva´s Cantonal Hospital.

Cuban doctor Ronald Hernandez, a member of the medical brigade fighting Ebola in Liberia, expressed his optimism about the success of their mission in that western African nation.