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Díaz-Canel announces that economic development and strategy plans ready for approval

Havana, June 29 , 2020 -- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel says that Cuba will overcome the difficult situation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the blockade, "because we can do thousands of better things, there are many shared ideas to be implemented more aggressively and, above all, because we have the work of the Revolution before us and we must defend it with passion." Heading meeting of the Council of Ministers, led by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, the president reported that the documents of the National Plan for Economic and Social Development until 2030 and the Strategy f

Cuba reports eight new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours

Havana, June 29 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were eight new cases detected of COVID-19, for a total of 2,340 positive cases across the island.

During his daily press briefing held Monday morning, Dr. Duran said that over the past 24 hours -- up to 12 midnight Sunday night -- fortunately, no patients died from the coronavirus. A total of 86 patients have died in Cuba over the past several months.

ALBA-TCP to hold the 20th Political Council and the 10th Economic Council

Havana, 28 June 2020. The 20th Political Council and the 10th Economic Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples´ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP, by its Spanish initials) will be held on 29 June. The joint meeting is the result of an agreement adopted during the High-Level Conference on Economy, Finance and Trade in the Framework of COVID-19, held on 10 June 2020.

Letter from the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Gutérres.

Unofficial translation

Havana, 26 June 2020

“62nd Year of the Revolution”

 

H.E. Mr. Antonio Gutérres

Secretary General of the United Nations

New York

 

Your Excellency,

Seventy five years after the Member States of this Organization signed the Charter of the United Nations, the strict compliance with its principles and purposes, International Law, and the preservation of multilateralism, gains more significance than ever.

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