Beijing, May 13, 2025
Your Excellencies, Foreign Ministers and Heads of Delegations:
I thank the Government of the People's Republic of China for the warm welcome and the organization of this important Forum. Our gratitude also goes to Colombia, President Pro Tempore of CELAC, for its leadership and skillful conduct of the preparatory process.
From January 27 to 30, 2026, the III José Martí International Colloquium for a Culture of Nature will be held in Havana, Cuba. This colloquium was convened for the first time in 2004, with the support of the José Martí Project for International Solidarity, registered with UNESCO in the same year, and is called to become a space for exchange and rapprochement in which people of good will converge again to reflect on the relationship Human Being-Nature.
Gros Islet, May 13, 2025—The Deputy Minister of Education of the Republic of Cuba, Alexander Manso Díaz, held a pleasant and fruitful exchange with his counterpart from Saint Lucia, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology, and Vocational Training, Ms. Althea Emmanuel.
The Canadian Network on Cuba sent to Cuba a donation of 30,000 surgical sutures and 10,000 electrodes for electrocardiograms, delivered by the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) to the Ministry of Public Health.
This container, shipped from China and then sailed to the Greater Antilles, spent months traveling to avoid millionaire fines, due to the hostile policy implemented by the U.S. government against the island.
