On April 16, 2024, representatives of Cuba and the United States held bilateral migration talks in Washington DC. The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, chaired the Cuban delegation and the Deputy Undersecretary of State of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs of the State Department, Eric Jacobstein, led the US delegation.
From Cuba, where you are admired and loved for your exemplary and historical respect for the rights of others, your solidarity and your commitment to integration, I reaffirm that Mexico can count on our firm support to any actions it may take in response to this unacceptable breach of International Law.
While addressing the Extraordinary Summit of CELAC, President Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated Cuba's strong condemnation to the violent invasion of the Ecuadorian authorities at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, and reaffirmed total support and solidarity to President Andrés M. López Obrador, to the Mexican government and the beloved and brotherly people, in the face of the unacceptable transgression of its diplomatic headquarters.
We reiterate that there will be no peace and stability in the Middle East until a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is reached, which contemplates the creation of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State, on the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem. as its capital and that refugees be allowed to return to their land.
The Havana Film Festival was inaugurated and dedicated to Latin American cinema with a tribute to Cuban director Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938-2003) at Hoftra University. With the participation of the director of the Cuban Cinematheque, Luciano Castillo, and film director Enrique Kiki Álvarez, the documentary Landrián, by Ernesto Daranas, was also screened for the first time in New York.