The political will to strengthen ties between the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) was ratified today during the official visit of a delegation from the island to the African country.

Cuban Vice-president Salvador Valdes Mesa held talks on Monday with Rwanda’s Premier Edouard Ngirente.

Paul Kagame, head of state of Rwanda, received in Urugwiro Village the vice president of Cuba, Salvador Valdes Mesa, who is carrying out the first working day of his official visit to the African nation.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, mourned today the victims of the heavy rains registered this weekend in the Dominican Republic.

“We Cubans residing abroad are united by our commitment to our native land,” said Vicente Amor, vice president of ASC International USA, based in Tampa, United States, who was invited to the 4th Conference “Nación y Emigración” in Havana.

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.