In an interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press, Cuba’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, reaffirmed the country’s willingness to engage in dialogue with the United States based on respect for Cuba’s sovereignty and self-determination.
Officials from the Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C., led by Deputy Chief of Mission Tanieris Diéguez, delivered a lecture on the Helms-Burton Act at Howard University School of Law.
The event focused on the impact of this legislation, addressing bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States in dialogue with the students. This session was designed to offer students a legal and diplomatic perspective on the Act.
The Cuban government announced a set of decisions intended to broaden the participation of Cubans residing abroad in the country's economy, including their access to private businesses, productive projects, and the national financial system.
Cuba regrets the decision of the government of Jamaica to cease medical cooperation, yielding to pressure from the U.S.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba reports that, on March 4, the Foreign Ministry of Jamaica communicated to our Embassy in that country the unilateral decision of its government to terminate the health cooperation agreement that has linked both nations for decades.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, in response to the arbitrary, unjustified, and hostile decision by the government of the Republic of Ecuador to declare all Cuban diplomatic, consular, and administrative personnel accredited in that country persona non grata, and given the impossibility of maintaining a diplomatic representation, has decided to vacate the property used as the Embassy of Cuba and to remove, with immediate effect, all attributes and identifying symbols of its diplomatic mission in Quito.