HAVANA, Cuba.- The Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, received this Friday in solemn ceremony the letters of credence of accredited ambassadors on the island, who represent countries of different latitudes.

At the headquarters of the Council of State in Havana, the Cuban President received the accreditation of Adam Chavez as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Diaz-Canel also received the letters of credence from the ambassadors of Colombia, Tanzania, Mauritania, the Philippines, Côte d’Ivoire, and Iran. The representative of the Persian country, Rashid Bayat, expressed the condemnation of his government to the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, an instrument with which the United States pursues the economic asphyxiation of Cuba.