Nassau, March 17th, 2023. The Minister of Health and Welfare of The Bahamas Dr. Michael Darville presented specific actions to expand the collaboration that the two countries are currently developing, in a friendly meeting with the Cuban ambassador to the Bahamas, Julio César González Marchante, at the headquarters of that Ministry.
In correspondence with new infrastructures and the expansion of public health services in the country, Cuban professionals will be selected to work in areas such as biomedical engineering, radiology, epidemiology, medical laboratories, and nursing.
Esteemed President Ilham Aliyev,
Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, and other Heads of Delegations,
Excellencies,
Esteemed participants,
I am grateful to the government of Azerbaijan, president of the Non-Aligned Movement, for calling this important meeting, and for the hospitality shown to the Cuban delegation.
Our countries’ recovery in the post-pandemic stage is a complex task.
During the latest summit of the Movement on this topic, the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, expressed, and I quote:
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On 27 February 2023, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, summoned the United States Chargé D’Affaires, Benjamin Ziff, to the Ministry, to formally convey Cuba’s vigorous protest at the granting of political asylum to the Cuban citizen Rubén Martínez Machado, perpetrator of the hijacking of a Cuban civil aircraft on 21 October 2022.