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Statement by the Vice President of the Republic of Cuba, Salvador Valdés Mesa, at the Contact Group Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. Baku, Azerbaijan, March the 2nd, 2023.

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: 

Cuba vigorously protests United States of America’s granting of asylum to an aircraft hijacker

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. 

Cuban president talks with Pope Francis' envoy

Havana, February 8, 2023.-  Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel held an exchange in Havana on Wednesday with H.E.R. Cardinal Beniamino Stella, envoy of Pope Francis.

Through his Twitter account, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba recalled the 25th anniversary of John Paul II's apostolic trip to Cuba, noting that the historic visit marked a transcendental moment in relations between the Vatican and the Island.

Cuban ambassador gives a lecture on the History of Cuba to Bahamian students.

Nassau, February 6th, 2023. Fulfilling an invitation from the directors of the San Pedro International School in Nassau, the Cuban ambassador Julio César González Marchante, held a dialogue on the Cuban Revolution with 12th grade students, in the turn corresponding to the history class.

A group of Cuban teachers residing in the country work at the educational Center and there is a tradition of joint work with the Diplomatic mission. The students of that Center have regularly participated in contests and tributes to José Martí.

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