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Scientific aide of the State Council of Cuba, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, desbribed as very positive a visit paid to this country to boost exchanges in the field.
In remarks to Prensa Latina before leaving for Cuba, he appreciated the dialogs with high Chinese leaders, including Vice Premier Liu Yandong.
Minister of International Relations and Fracophonie of Quebec, Christine St-Pierre,arrived in Cuba today to carry out a working visit.
During her stay she will hold a meeting with Cuban Deputy Minister of External Affairs Rogelio Sierra, and will fullfilled other activities as part of her schedule here, according to a press release of the Cubaminrex.cu. web site.
The Havana International Fair (Fihav) confirms today the growing attraction of the Cuban market, evidenced in its 33rd edition, starting Nov. 2 through 7, with the participation of exhibitors from more than 70 nations.
Despite the global economic crisis and the blockade imposed by the United States, some 10 countries more than in the previous fair are attending this time, while the exhibition area also grows no less than 2,000 square meters, according to the Organizing Committee.
Venezuela and Cuba have strengthened social cooperation, as part of the expansion of a comprehensive cooperation agreement between the two countries, signed on October 30, 2000.
During Friday's commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the agreement, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced some of the program's goals for the coming years.
The president stated that with the help of Cuban doctors working in the Barrio Adentro mission, primary health care will be improved to cover 100 percent of the country.
The adult literacy program "Yo, si puedo" (Yes, I Can), created by Cuban teacher Leonela Relys, has benefited more than 10 million people in several parts of the world, Granma newspaper reports today.
Such figure is materialized by adding almost 795,000 who are currently taking classes in 11 countries worldwide, among them, Angola, Mozambique, Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua and Namibia, Dr. Lisset Valdes, academic assistant director of the Latin American and Caribbean Pedagogical Institute, told the press.
The UN General Assembly today adopted with the support of 191 of its 193 members a new resolution demanding the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba.
On the twenty-fourth consecutive time since 1992, the international community demands in the main deliberative organ of the United Nations to lift the siege applied by Washington on the island for over half a century.
Cuba and Russia have signed six bilateral cooperation accords in energy, finances, the metal and pharmaceutical sectors aiming to strengthening bilateral relations in all areas.
The accords included the granting to Cuba of an export credit to finance the modernization of a metal-processing plant in Havana -- a loan to fund the construction of four power units and other accords in the energy sector and also in the biotechnology area.
El Salvador's ambassador to the United Nations, Ruben Zamora, says that the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba for over half a century, must come to an end because it is a unfair and useless measure.
In statements to Prensa Latina news agency in New York, the Salvadoran diplomat argued that Washington's siege only serves the interests of small groups from the United States, bent on keeping a distance between the two countries.
Margaret Chan, general director of the World Health Organization (WHO), described Cuba’s public healthcare system as an example to be followed, emphasizing its sustainability and ability to respond to emergency situations.
Margaret Chan, general director of the World Health Organization (WHO), described Cuba’s public healthcare system as an example to be followed, emphasizing its sustainability and ability to respond to emergency situations, during an assembly meeting of the Interparliamentary Union, yesterday, October 20.
U.S. government levies fines on French bank Crédit Agricole for over a billion dollars.
The French bank Crédit Agricole agreed yesterday, October 21, to pay fines of over a billion dollars to U.S. authorities, as a result of alleged violations of this country’s sanctions on Sudan, Iran, Myanmar and Cuba.
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