Havana, Cuba.-Cuba will mark the two decades of the Chemical Weapons Convention with a Day for the Protection against these devices, and a commemorative event for the 20th anniversary of that international agreement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today. These activities will include meetings and seminars to be held during this year. They will […]
Havana, Cuba.-The President of the Cuban Peace Movement, Silvio Platero reiterated here today that the US Guantánamo naval base is the only one installed in the world against the will of its people and government. For this reason, Cuba is chosen to hold the International Peace Seminar and for the Abolition of Military Bases, the […]
Havana, Cuba.-Cuba has denounced today at the Committee on Information of the United Nations the ongoing attack on the island through radio and television from the United States. During her speech at the 38th session of the committee, Cuban Ambassadress Anayansi Rodriguez said that the US airwaves aggression that has been going on during several […]
Havana, Cuba.-Over the next few months, Cuba will celebrate French culture with a wide-range activity program that will be held on Thursday with the 20th edition of the French Film Festival, the organizers said. The event will be opened at 8:30 pm local time at Charles Chaplin Movie Theater and will include the showing of […]
Havana, Cuba.-The Vice President of Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM), Mustafa Cikrikcioglu, described today the results of a bilateral business forum in Cuba as fruitful. Mustafa Cikrikcioglu, accompanied by several TIM delegation members led by the Turkish Ambassador to Cuba, Berris Ekinci, has conveyed the objective of contributing to enhance the volume of bilateral exchange, from […]
Havana, Cuba.-Seychelles President, Danny Faure, opens his country”s embassy in Cuba today, as part of his official visit to the Caribbean nation. The Seychelles embassy in Cuba is the first of that African nation in the Latin American and Caribbean region and its opening took place by late 2016. As part of its program of […]
Panama City, Panama.-Cuba won its first medal at the 3rd Special Olympiads, being held in Panama, with swimmer Lizandra Utria, one of the six athletes from the island in the competition, winning bronze in the 50 meters backstroke, a performance she expects to repeat at the finals of the 50 meters freestyle at the Eileen […]
Matanzas, Cuba.-The 11th International Symposium on Wetlands Management, which is called by the Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), will tackle some priority issues today on wetland preservation. Such an event, scheduled from November 6th to 10th, in the municipality of Cienaga de Zapata, is organized by the Matanzas CITMA delegation and the […]
Havana, Cuba.-The HostelCuba fair begins its activities and exhibitions today, aimed to the country”s recreational industry and in which discussions will be held among professionals, investment forum and for the first time, a gastronomic forum. The second edition of HostelCuba International Hotel Business and Catering Fair will include exhibitions of products from the sectors of […]
Havana, Cuba.-The Martin Luther King Memorial Center is celebrating its 30th anniversary today with a marked work of social transformation and space for the promotion of ecumenism values and the Cuban socialism. The center has maintained the community work and inside the churches for three decades, ‘applying what Fidel asked us to live a gospel […]
Piura, Peru.-An intense work has been carried out by Cuban health emergency team in the first three weeks of solidarity actions for the victims of flooding that wreaked havoc the Peruvian northern city of Piura. The team’s head Rolando Piloto told the Prensa Latina that the 23 Cuban health specialists have made 1,637 consultations so […]
Havana, Cuba.-The second edition of HostelCuba Fair will be attended by some 200 foreign companies, and will exhibit the Showcooking (a gastronomic novelty) for the first time in the country, according to the organizing committee. This HostelCuba International Hotel Business and Catering Fair will be held from April 25th to 27th, with the attendance of […]
Athens, Greece.-Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, departed from here back to Cuba today after an official visit to Greece, a country in which he finished a tour of three European nations. During his stay in Athens, a place in which he had arrived early Friday morning, Rodriguez Parrilla was received by Greek Prime […]
Havana, Cuba.-The 6th Workshop on Basic Biomedical Sciences started today in this capital with a great international participation and the aim to continue raising the level of Cuban health professionals, recognized worldwide. Today’s agenda includes lectures on several issues such as genetics, nutrition, probiotics in medicine and preclinical and clinical data of the amniotic membrane, […]
Managua, Nicaragua.-The Mexican meet processing company SuKarne, leader to this sector in Central America, is currently exploring, from Nicaragua, opportunities for business with Cuba, source from the Cuban embassy in this country confirmed today. In statements to the news agency Prensa Latina, Cuban Ambassador to Nicaragua Juan Carlos Hernandez reported that he had visited the […]
Damascus, Syria.-Syria and Cuba signed today an agreement for reciprocal visa exemption for diplomatic, official, special and service passports. The signing of the agreement by Syrian Vice Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad and the Cuban Ambassador to this country, Rogerio Santana, took place at the Cuban embassy in Damascus. The ceremony was also an expression of […]
Havana, Cuba.-The 9th International Workshop On Aseptic Processing in the Pharmaceutical Industry will open here next Monday, with the attendance of experts from 8 countries of the Americas and Europe, organizers announced. Researchers from Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, US and Cuba will take part in the event, which will spread until April 28th. […]
Lisbon, Portugal.-Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa ratified today in this capital, to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, hios Government”s willingness of strengthening the relations with the Caribbean island nation. After welcoming the Cuban foreign minister at the Belem Palace, the Portuguese presidential residence, Rebelo de Sousa confirmed the Portuguese State willingness to consolidate the […]
Havana, Cuba.-As part of the 9th Congress of Cuba-Italy Surgery, specialists from both nations will have the possibility to debate on the new health technologies in this sector, the organizers said. This event, scheduled for April 24 through 26 at the Havana International Conference Center, will include masterly lectures and visits to some health institutions […]
Havana, Cuba.-Some 400 experts of Mexico, Ecuador, Cuba, Colombia and other nations will participate in the 11th International Meeting on Accounting, Audit and Finances, to be held on May 22 to 24, informed an official source. This forum to take place at the Convention Center of this capital, is organized by the National Association of […]
