Ricardo Cabrisas, deputy prime minister and head of foreign trade and foreign investment of Cuba, met today with the Turkish minister of finance and treasury, Mehmet Şimşek, on the second day of his working visit to Türkiye.

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) deputy director general Mario Lubetkin considered on Tuesday that the Latin American and Caribbean commitment against hunger and malnutrition advanced with the recent update of the plan drawn up by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

Cuba was reelected on Monday vice-president of the Committee for the Palestinian People’s Inalienable Rights, the island’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations Gerardo Penalver announced.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez rejected the extension of an executive order imposed by Washington against Venezuela.

Gerardo Peñalver Portal, first deputy minister of Foreign Affairs and permanent representative of Cuba to the United Nations, reiterated the urgent need to find a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the creation of two States, which would allow the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination and to have an independent and sovereign State within the pre-1967 borders.

Speaking at the 6th Culture Summit Abu Dhabi, held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Cuban Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso Grau denounced the massacre committed against the Palestinian people and urged to take a stand to stop it.

A panel held at the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) celebrated the life and transcendence of Commander Hugo Chávez Frías (1954-2013), leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, on the occasion of the eleventh anniversary of his death.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, Primer Secretario del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba y Presidente de la República, recordó hoy el legado del Comandante Hugo Chávez Frías, con motivo de los 11 años de su partida física.

Cuba’s permanent representative at the United Nations office in Geneva Juan Antonio Quintanilla called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the access of humanitarian aid to that territory.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned about the fast deterioration of the safety conditions in the Haitian capital Port au Prince, amidst intensification of gang violence.

The number of Palestinians killed by Israel since the conflict broke out last October 7 has increased to over 30 thousand 500 along more than 71 900 wounded, according to medical sources.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, condemned today the destruction by the U.S. authorities of an aircraft belonging to Venezuela's Aerocargo del Sur Transport Company (Emtrasur by its Spanish acronym).

Kingstown, capital of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, will gather today representatives of the 33 member countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), to participate at the 8th Summit of that regional coordination mechanism.

A delegation from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA by its Spanish acronym) is participating at the 6th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), which brings together in Nairobi, Kenya, more than 5,000 representatives of governments, civil society and the private sector.