Helsinki, September 20, 2018. Cuban Ambassador Eduardo Lazo Pérez was received on Wednesday, September 19th, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Finland by H.E. Anne Sipiläinen, Undersecretary of State for Foreign and Security Policy. During the meeting both interlocutors exchange ideas on various topics of bilateral and multilateral interest.
Georgetown, September 20, 2018. The Ambassador of Cuba, Narciso R. Amador, attended the opening ceremony of the Guyana Trade and Investment Exhibition (GuyTIE, 2018) with the participation of a Cuban delegation represented by Dr. Celia Labora, the Director of International Relations of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba, and Laura Vives, the Regional Sales Manager of FARMACUBA Company.
As part of the working program executed in Vienna by the Member of the Parliament Luis Morlote Rivas, Vice-president of the Committee on Education, Culture, Science, Technology, and Environment of the National Assembly of People´s Power and First Vice President of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC by its Spanish initials), he held a meeting with the group of members of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ by its German initials) in the venue of the Austrian Federal Parliament.
Cuban Ambassador Francisco Fernández held a fraternal exchange with the Honorable Senator Dr. Jerome Walcott, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados, prior to the first bilateral meeting to be held shortly by the president of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the Honorable Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, during her attendance at the sessions of the UN General Assembly. The meeting served to confirm details of the scheduled meeting of both leaders in New York the following week, in which the priorities of the bilateral agenda will be updated, as well as other aspects related to regional integration and multilateral affairs, including historical support from Barbados to the Cuban struggle for the unconditional lifting of the blockade imposed by the USA.
The staff of the Cuban Embassy in Ghana welcomed three new Ghanaian doctors (Josephine Oboshie Laryea, Yusiff Abass and Richardson Kofi Gordor), who completed their medical studies on the Caribbean island.
The Ambassador Pedro L. Despaigne González in his welcoming words congratulated them for the excellent academic results obtained during their student life, encouraging them to continue to excel in their work sphere.