“ÖKG”, the Austria-Cuba Friendship Association organized a space for providing information and promoting a debate on Cuba at the book store of the Trade Union Confederation of Austria (ÖGB by its German initials) where the representation of the Embassy of Cuba in Austria participated.
The 61th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) the main body in charge of policy-making of the UN narcotic drug control system is being held from 12 – 16 March 2018 at the Austrian capital.
An extensive program of work in the capital of the region of Lower Austria made a representation of the Embassy of Cuba in Austria, headed by the Chargé d'Affaires a.i. Marieta García Jordán. The Cuban delegation was received at the City Hall by the Mayor, Matthias Stadler, who is also President of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) in Lower Austria and one of the Vice Presidents of that party at the Federal level; by the Federal Parliamentarian, Robert Laimer and by other members of the City Council.
A representation of the Cuban Embassy in Austria held a cordial meeting with Cuban residents in St. Pölten, the capital of the State of Lower Austria as part of the working visit to that region.
Two great exponents of Cuban jazz and pianística, of recognized international prestige, Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, delighted the demanding Austrian public in a beautiful unique concert with four hands and two pianos offered yesterday in a crowded Great Hall of the Konzerthause, Vienna's main theater, which houses more than two thousand attendees.