Canberra, February 25, 2021.- Today, a Webinar on business and investment opportunities in mining and oil in Cuba was held with the participation of Australian companies, Cuban executives from the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM ), Unión Cuba-Petróleo (CUPET), Geominero-Salinero (GEOMINSAL) and Cubaníquel, as well as the respective ambassadors of Cuba and Australia.
Canberra, 16th February 2021. - The Australian edition of the digital media Bussines Insider, one of the leading voices of the so-called “business journalism” in Australia, reported last Monday the progress of Cuba in the development of its own vaccine candidates against COVID -19.
Canberra, 25th January 2021.- Several members of the Australia-Cuba Parliamentary Group at the federal level recently signed the nomination of the International Medical Brigade ¨Henry Reeve¨ for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The federal member of the Parliament (MP) for the Labor Party, Maria Vamvakinou, formally registered the aforementioned nomination to the Norwegian Nobel Committee on behalf of the eleven signatory MPs.
Canberra, 15th January, 2021.- The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (ACFS) issued a Statement on Friday condemning the unfair and arbitrary inclusion of Cuba by the outgoing United States administration in its unilateral list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism.
Canberra, December 7, 2020.- Last Saturday members of different branches of the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (ACFS) held their annual National Consultation.
On the Cuban side, José Prieto Cintado, Vice President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Leima Martínez Freire, Director of Asia and Oceania of that organization and the Ambassador of Cuba to Australia, Ariel Lorenzo Rodríguez, participated in the event.