Oslo, September 28, 2022. The staff of the Embassy of Cuba in Norway commemorated the 62nd anniversary of the foundation of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR).
Diplomats from the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and representatives of the solidarity movement with Cuba in this country participated in the activity organized for such a significant date.
Oslo, September 22, 2022. During a brief visit to Norway, invited by Katrine Adler-Gjerde and Anne Lise Flavik, leaders of the Blueberry Photography project, Cuban artist Nelson Ramírez de Arellano Conde visited the Oslo School of Photography (Oslo Fotokunstskole).
After taking a tour of the center, the current Director of the Wilfredo Lam Center and of the Havana Biennial, offered a lecture in which he commented on the history of photography in Cuba and addressed relevant aspects of his personal work and that of other exponents of contemporary Cuban photography.
Oslo, September 18th, 2022. After the official constitution of the electoral bureau and the signing by its members of the corresponding oath, at 07:00 a.m., the polling station at the Embassy of Cuba in Norway opened for the referendum on the new Family Code.
There, all members of the staff of the Diplomatic Mission cast their votes, as well as a group of co-nationals who are in this country fulfilling official missions. Neisi Mena López had the honor of being the first to exercise the right to suffrage.
Oslo, September 7, 2022. After two years without face-to-face meeting due to the pandemic of Covid-19, the National Agencies from more than 150 countries gather again to address current issues on the ISBN, and Cuba is present.
The director of the Cuban ISBN Agency, Daymaris Cordero Martínez, is participating at the ISBN Annual General Meeting 2022, which takes place from today until September 9 at the National Library of Norway. She is representing the country's publishing sector and updating on correct uses of that important code for books.
Oslo, August 30, 2022. The Cuban ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway, Maité Rivero Torres, was received by Bjørg Sandkjær, State Secretary of the Ministry of International Development.
At the meeting, which took place in a cordial atmosphere, they reviewed the positive relations of cooperation existing between the two countries, in which the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) has played a prominent role. In this context, the current situation, results and perspectives of bilateral collaboration projects developed in recent years in several sectors were assessed.