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Jul

03

2025

Cuba participates in the 33rd Assembly of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Paris, 3 July 2025. With the participation of the Delegation of Cuba to UNESCO, the 33rd Assembly of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) concluded today, after being held from 25 June to 3 July at the Organization’s Headquarters in Paris. The meeting brought together representatives of Member States, experts and international organizations to discuss key developments and challenges in ocean science and the sustainable management of marine resources.

Cuba’s participation in this Assembly reaffirms its longstanding commitment to international scientific cooperation and the sustainable management of marine ecosystems. The country actively contributes to strengthening knowledge networks, capacity-building initiatives, and the promotion of science in service of ocean conservation, in line with the principles of the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

Jul

01

2025

Cuba rejects US Presidential Memorandum which tightens the economic blockade

Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Havana, July 1. The anti-Cuban document released by the U.S. government on June 30, 2025, consists of a reissue and amendment of the National Security Presidential Memorandum No. 5 that the US government itself had issued on June 16, 2017, at the beginning of Donald Trump's first term.

Jun

27

2025

U.S. Pressure and Coercion Impose Mercenary on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS

Havana, 27 June 2025. For months, the U.S. Secretary of State led an aggressive campaign aimed at installing a prominent member on Washington’s payroll—an outspoken supporter of the blockade and aggression against Cuba—as an allegedly impartial human rights expert.

Despite the dignified, courageous, and legitimate stance taken by numerous governments across Latin America and the Caribbean, intense pressure and threats—among them the blackmailing of states with potential cuts to U.S.-funded cooperation programs in the hemisphere—ultimately resulted in the narrow election of the well-known mercenary Ms. Rosa María Payá Acevedo as a Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

Jun

26

2025

President of the Cuban Institute of Music participates in Belgium in celebration of the results of the Transcultura Programme

Brussels, 26 June 2025. The President of the Cuban Institute of Music, Indira Fajardo, took part in Brussels in the commemorative event marking five years of implementation of the Transcultura Programme, an initiative led by UNESCO with the support of the European Union to strengthen cultural ties between Cuba, the Caribbean and Europe.

In her address, Fajardo highlighted Cuba’s vision of culture as a driver of development and cooperation, recalling the words of José Martí: “Culture saves us”. She noted that, from the outset, Cuba took an active role in the Programme through the Ministry of Culture and the Office of the Historian of Havana, prioritising capacity building for young artists and entrepreneurs, supporting their professional development, and restoring the Convent of Santa Clara as a cultural space.

Jun

25

2025

The U.S. blockade against Cuba is also an obstacle to the implementation of the Global Convention on Higher Education

Paris, 25 June 2024. The second session of the Intergovernmental Conference of States Parties to the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, held throughout 24 June, was also a setting in which the Permanent Delegation of Cuba to UNESCO denounced the consequences of the tightened economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the Government of the United States on the Caribbean nation.

Cuba’s representative at the meeting, Third Secretary Laura Alvarez Delgado, not only outlined the steps taken at the national level to implement this global convention —with Cuba being a pioneer State in the adoption of both the global and the regional instruments— but also highlighted global challenges to its advancement, such as war, the indiscriminate use of force, and the imposition of unilateral coercive measures.

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