Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero held talks Thursday with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as one of the first activities on his working agenda in that sister Latin American nation.

The United Nations Security Council called to increase international efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Haiti and condemned violent attacks by local armed gangs.

Health authorities in the Gaza Strip said on Thursday that the number of murdered citizens under Israeli attacks almost reaches 31.988 since last October.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla congratulated today the people and government of Iran on the occasion of the celebrations of Nouruz and the Persian New Year.

Cuban Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Ricardo Cabrisas was welcomed to the Russian State Duma (lower chamber of Parliament) by its president Viacheslav Volodin and other parliamentarians and political leaders.

As part of his working agenda in Moscow, Cuban Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Ricardo Cabrisas met on Tuesday with government officials, parliamentarians, entrepreneurs and executives in the financial system.

The United Nations has reinforced its humanitarian response in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince amidst a tense violent situation, official sources reported.

Rodolfo Benitez Verson, Cuban deputy national coordinator for the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), reiterated Cuba's position in favor of peace, stability and development in Haiti and the defense of the legitimate right to find a peaceful and sustainable solution to the challenges it faces.

Cuba’s Deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia is heading the island’s delegation to the 38th Regional Conference of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez congratulated his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on his resounding victory in the presidential elections with more than 87% of the votes.

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Chernyshenko said that Moscow and Havana share solid relations based on friendship, solidarity and mutual respect, with a look at the future.

Haiti needs real and sufficient assistance and cooperation for its reconstruction and progress, without external meddling that has not been the solution, but the cause of its problems, says a statement issued today by the Cuban foreign ministry.

The United Nations will set up an “air bridge” between Haiti and the Dominican Republic to favor the arrival of humanitarian aid to Haitians under the current crisis, the UN mission in Pout-au-Prince announced. https://shorturl.at/hkCE0

Cuban Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Ricardo Cabrisas is in Russia to co-preside over the 21st Session of the Cuba-Russia Intergovernmental Commission for Economic-Commercial and Scientific and Technical Collaboration.