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,
Honorable Senator Dr. Jerome Walcott, Justice of the Peace, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Barbados;
Dr. June Soomer, Secretary-General of the Association of Caribbean States;
Distinguished delegates and guests;
Excellencies:
First of all I would like to welcome the initiative of the Government of Barbados, in its condition as Chair of the Council of Ministers of the Association of Caribbean States, of convening this virtual meeting.
Havana, Jun 10, 2020.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said this Wednesday he will discuss a common anti-Covid-19 strategy with his counterparts in the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).
We will participate this Wednesday in the ALBA-TCP Virtual Summit to address a common strategy against Covid-19, Diaz-Canel wrote on Twitter, which he accompanied with the tag #CubaSalvaVidas.
Havana, June 8 - The first Cuban medical brigade of the Henry Reeve Contingent which served for two months in northern Italy has returned victorious to Havana. They arrived Monday evening at 6:50 p.m. at the Jose Marti International Airport after a nearly 10-hour flight from Milan-Rome.
Havana, Jun 4.- Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez described the tightening of the US blockade, with the imposition of new sanctions against Cuban entities, as shameful and criminal.
Tightening the blockade during the coronavirus pandemic is shameful and criminal, Rodriguez posted on his Twitter account on Wednesday, and expressed Cuba's energetic rejection to the measures announced by that northern country.