In just one week, Cuba will present for the third time in Geneva, Switzerland, a report for the Universal Periodic Review on human rights, an area in which the island shows unattainable results for many nations.
The coordinator of the National Network of Solidarity with Cuba in the United States, Cheryl Labash, demanded the government of her country to lift the blockade maintained against the island for more than half a century.
The delegation representing the Cuban civil society in the hemispheric dialogue in Lima, Peru, denounces the presence in this meeting of mercenaries who seek to usurp the legitimate representation of the island.
The political declaration of the second Forum of the Cuban Civil Society, categorically underlines the approaches presented by the representatives of Cuba in the hemispheric dialogue in Peru, preparatory to the eighth Summit of the Americas.
The Director General of the United States in the Cuban Chancellery, Carlos Fernandez de Cossío, received in Havana a bipartisan delegation of congressmen and American senators, led by Patrick Leahy.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor-Leste, Aurelio Guterres, expressed his solidarity with the Cuban people and Government, and condemned the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States to the island more than half a century ago.
The head of the European diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, expressed this Wednesday in Havana the interest to increase economic operations and open new sectors of cooperation of the bloc with Cuba.
The Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla and Jorge Arreaza Monserrat, Minister of the People’s Power of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, held a fraternal meeting this Monday in New York.
