Recent measures ordered by Israel have affected over 150 thousand Palestinians in Gaza, the United Nations denounced.

Cuban deputy foreign minister Elio Rodríguez Perdomo will pay an official visit to the Commonwealth of Australia on August 22 and 23, where he will meet with high-level officials of the Foreign Ministry and the Australian Parliament and with members of the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society.

The will of the Venezuelan people was endorsed in the electoral result of July 28, with the resounding victory of President Nicolas Maduro, heir to the legacy of Chavez, in a legitimate and democratic process, said today Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, reiterated today his condemnation of Israel's genocidal bombings against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, Cuban deputy prime minister, and the delegation accompanying him, paid tribute to Major General Maximo Gomez today in the Dominican Republic.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, denounced the attempts of the Organization of American States (OAS) to impose a resolution on the electoral process in Venezuela.

The Syrian Arab People's Assembly condemned Washington's decision to maintain the name of the Republic of Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, the Foreign Ministry informed on its website.

Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), ratified his country's solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution, in view of the intentions to ignore the official result of the presidential elections held in Venezuela last July 28.

The Cuban foreign ministry congratulated the people and government of the Principality of Liechtenstein on the occasion of its National Day.

A Cuban delegation headed by deputy prime minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca is paying a working visit to the Dominican Republic that includes attending the swearing-in ceremony of President Luis Abinader, re-elected for another four-year mandate.

The coordinating committee of the 34th Puerto Rican Juan Rius Rivera Brigade was established in San Juan as part of the tribute to Fidel Castro on the 98th anniversary of his birth, according to Milagros Rivera, chair of the Cuba Solidarity Movement in her country.

In a speech delivered at the Olof Palme Convention Center on the 44th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Navy, President Daniel Ortega praised the resistance of the Cuban Revolution and other similar political processes, such as those of Nicaragua and Venezuela.

A tribute to Fidel and to the Venezuelan people who defend their choice of Nicolas Maduro as president against the machinations of the empire was the topic of a virtual press conference convened from Caracas on August 13 by the Venezuela-Cuba National Movement of Friendship and Mutual Solidarity.

Wei Xiaodong, chairman of the Beijing Municipal Committee and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, on a visit to Cuba, held a meeting with authorities of the Havana City Government.