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On Thursday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel called for unity among nations of the South, upon assuming the pro-tempore presidency of the G77+China.
In a video message at the official ceremony, the Cuban leader urged to take pressing actions to overcome obstacles to the people´s real progress. Unity is an imperative today and the greatest of all emergencies, Díaz-Canel stressed.
Cuba will assume the pro tempore presidency of the G77 + China, the largest and most diverse group in the multilateral arena, with 134 member states, representing two-thirds of the members of the United Nations system and 80% of the world's population.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez presided over the usual meeting of experts and scientists on health issues on Tuesday afternoon, in which a review was made of everything undertaken during 2022 by Cuban science in the field of health.
The head of state told his interlocutors from the Palace of the Revolution: "Congratulations on the results. In any case, we cannot be confident; and we must go for more".
Cuba will pay tribute today to young people murdered in 1992 by counterrevolutionaries in their eagerness to illegally leave the country, known as the Tarará Crime.
In the early hours, a group of criminals attacked the nautical base of Tarará, east of Havana, to steal a boat and flee to the United States, and in the action killed the fighters Orosmán Dueñas, Yuri Gómez, and Rafael Guevara, while Rolando Pérez Quintosa was seriously wounded.
The Europe for Cuba Channel has confirmed the participation of more than 30 organizations in its first international meeting of solidarity with the island, which will be held from January 27-29 in the Spanish city of Seville.
We expect the presence at the forum of around 80 delegates from some 17 countries in Europe and America, although these figures may still vary because we are still receiving requests, Jose Antonio Toledo, coordinator of the platform activated in October 2020, told Prensa Latina.
The University of Havana (UH), Cuba's oldest university, celebrates today the 295th anniversary of its founding, with a trajectory of academic excellence linked to the history of the Caribbean nation.
The rector of the academic institution, Miriam Nicado, highlighted in the radio program Mesa Redonda that the UH has 19 faculties and three study and research centers.
It is also linked to the scientific and business world through projects that contribute to national development in various fields, with an important social impact.
The Secretary of Primary Care of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Nesio Fernandes, affirmed that the More Doctors program, extinct during the administration of former president Jair Bolsonaro, will be resumed.
«The agenda to resume More Doctors is immediate. We want doctors to be placed in all Brazilian municipalities in a short period”, revealed Fernandes, quoted by a local newspaper.
According to the Cuban Parliament website, Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State, held on Thursday an exchange with Ron Wyden, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.
During the meeting, which took place at the National Capitol, both parties stressed the importance of this visit and agreed on the willingness to expand and strengthen inter-parliamentary relations based on mutual respect.
The capital's branch of the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association officially launched its website, in what it considered a sincere action to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
The brand-new site, with versions in Vietnamese and Spanish, is the first one specifically dedicated to the historic and special brotherhood relations existing between the two countries, established more than six decades ago and considered an invaluable asset to preserve, protect, cultivate and transmit to new generations.
Diplomatic relations between Laos and Cuba, 48 years after being established, will close a 2022 of intense exchange of high-level delegations with results that Ambassador Enna Viant said are very positive.
She mentioned the visit of Prime Minister Manuel Marrero accompanied by a large delegation, which resulted in four agreements in the areas of higher education, agriculture and health, said the head of the Cuban state mission there.
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