Cuba stressed the importance of having multilateral ties with South Pacific Island States and reasserted its commitment to friendship and cooperation at the 52nd Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting, held in the Cook Islands.

Cuban Vice-President Salvador Valdes Mesa held talks on Friday with Guinea Bissau’s Parliament President Domingo Simoes Pereira during his official visit to that African nation.

Umaro Sissoco Embaló, President of Guinea Bissau, received today the Vice President of Cuba, Salvador Valdes Mesa, who is on an official visit to the African nation since Wednesday.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel congratulated today Pedro Sanchez on his re-election as head of the Spanish government, after the vote in the Congress of Deputies in which he won 179 seats.

The 263 delegates to the sessions of the International Tribunal against the US blockade on Cuba, which concluded today at the European Parliament, issued the Brussels Declaration in support of the verdict of the judges condemning the US government for crimes of aggression and crimes against humanity that could lead to the genocide of the Cuban people.

Substantial legal considerations were submitted as evidence of the violation of international law by the US blockade of Cuba, at a court judging the implementation of the US coercive policy, exposed during a hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels.

As part of his current tour around Africa, Cuban vice president Salvador Valdés Mesa is paying an official visit to Guinea Bissau, where he was received by Soares Sambú, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government and Minister of State.

Cuba’s Vice-President Salvador Valdes Mesa is paying and official visit to Ghana as part of an African tour which also includes Rwanda, Ethiopia and Guinea Bissau.

At the close of the official visit to Belarus by Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, both nations confirmed the shared priority of implementing the agreements reached in the shortest possible time, with the aim of boosting economic and trade relations.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz highlighted his country's interest in boosting cooperation with Belarus in the field of health care and biotechnology.

The European Parliament will host an International Tribunal, convened in July by various organizations attending the Peoples' Summit in Brussels, to undertake symbolic criminal proceedings against the U.S. blockade of Cuba and denounce its extraterritorial impact.

An international court will hold hearings on the US blockade of Cuba in Brussels, Belgium, November 16 and 17, according to Cuba’s Friendship Institute.

A meeting with Alexandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus, kicked off today the first day of the official visit of Manuel Marrero, Prime Minister of Cuba, to the European nation.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero is paying an official visit to Belarus aimed at strengthening cooperation relations between Minsk and Havana in areas of interest including transport, air connections and tourism.