Online exchange with the media by Yaira Jiménez Roig, Director of Communications of MINREX, and Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, Director of the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation of MINSAP.
Good morning
We are here once again to answer the questions posed by journalists from all over the world with regard to recent events in which our country decided to discontinue its participation in the “More Doctors for Brazil” Program.
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba
During the past few months, the US State Department has been concocting a new pretext to affect bilateral diplomatic relations, associated to the granting of the diplomatic and official visas required by the staff of the respective embassies in Washington and Havana to perform their duties. The maneuver consists in claiming that Cuba is hindering the granting of visas for designated officials at the US embassy in Cuba, which allegedly hinders the work of that diplomatic mission.
New York, November 28, 2018. The Director of International Relations of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba (MINSAP, Spanish abbreviation), Dr. Néstor Marimón, attended today the opening ceremony of the Global South-South Development (GSSD) Expo 2018 to be held at the United Nations between November 28 and 30.