CUBA

Mar

20

2017

Cuban Institutions and IAEA Review Bilateral Cooperation

Dazhu Yang, Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will visit the Agency of Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies (AENTA), as part of his official visit to Cuba.

Yang will meet with AENTA president, Daniel Lopez, to exchange on the state of technical cooperation. Directors of the National Nuclear Safety Center, as well as from the Ministries of Public Health, Food Industry and Agriculture, will also participate.

Mar

17

2017

Cuba and Vietnam sign cooperation agreements on health

Cuba y Vietnam firman acuerdo de cooperación en salud

Cuba and Vietnam signed health cooperation agreements to strengthen the cooperation in this sector, through which the island will provide professional services to the Indochina nation.

One of the documents was signed by Juana María Larrea, on behalf of Cuban Medic al Services (CSMC) and Vu Thi Thanh Giang, from the International General Hospital Thu Cuc, in the presence of the deputy minister Marcia Cobas, who led the delegation of the Caribbean country.

Mar

16

2017

Signed in Mongolia Letter of Intent for the use of Cuban biotech products.

Ulaanbaatar. March 16, 2017. With the presence of the Minister of Health, Dr. A.Tsogtsetseg, a Letter of Intent was signed this morning between the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) of Cuba and the Central Hospital No. 1 of Mongolia which reflects the intention of both institutions to promote medical programs and therapies based on Cuban biotechnological medicines. The document was signed by the Cuban side by Dr. Eulogio Pimentel, Director of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, and by the Mongolian side the General Director of Central Hospital No.

Mar

16

2017

Embassy of Cuba in Iran says farewell to the year 1395 of the Persian calendar

Officials and workers at the Cuban Embassy in Tehran met the Iranian personnel to jointly say farewell to the year 1395 and welcome Nowruz, which means the arrival of the New Year on the Persian calendar and it is celebrated throughout the country coinciding with the spring equinox.

Mar

15

2017

Information Note: Remodeling of the Cuban Consular Section in Austria (with jurisdiction in Slovenia and Croatia)

As it was previously announced, the offices of the Cuban Consular Section in Austria shall be structurally remodeled in order to provide our users with a better comfort and security to deliver a better service. The remodeling work shall start on Monday, April 3rd, 2017 and they shall continue during all that month of April.

Mar

15

2017

Cuba and Austria take cooperation between their Ministries of Justice forward

The Federal Minister for Justice of the Republic of Austria, Mr. Wolfgang Brandstetter received the Cuban delegation led by the Deputy-minister for Justice Mr. Francisco Eduardo García Henríquez in the headquarters of the Austrian ministry. It was a fruitful meeting in which both parties ratify their will to take their existing cooperation relation forward through the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the ministers of both countries in December 2015.

Mar

14

2017

Special Olympics to start on Tuesday

The Special Olympics winter games 2017 in Graz, Schladming and Ramsau are due to start on Tuesday, with the arrival of around 2,700 athletes.

The Special Olympics for the mentally impaired have been taking place for 55 years, based on an initiative by the Kennedys in 1962. The movement organises around 100,000 events in 170 countries every year.

Mar

14

2017

Cuban biotechnological products arouse great interest in Mongolia.

Ulaanbaatar. March 14, 2017. With the presence of the Minister of Defense and President of the Cuba-Mongolia Parliamentary Friendship Group, Mr. B.Bat-Erdene, Dr. Eulogio Pimentel, Director of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology held a business meeting with Mongolia's leading institutions, companies and health authorities.

Mar

14

2017

Jamaica media highlights regional meetings in Cuba

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, March 13th, 2017. The main media in Jamaica highlighted the Association of Caribbean States (ASC) and the Community of the Caribbean (CARICOM) meetings carried out in Havana last week.

The Observer, one of the two most important newspapers in the country, published in both the printed and digital versions, an article written by the Cuban Ambassador, Bernardo Guanche Hernandez, entitled “The Caribbean can always count on Cuba”.

Mar

13

2017

Biotechnology delegation begins visit to Mongolia.

Ulaanbaatar. March 13, 2017. The delegation of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology of Cuba began its working week today with meetings with health authorities, pharmaceutical companies and businessmen interested in the products and therapies developed by the Center. Accompanied by Cuban Ambassador Raúl Delgado Concepción, specialists Dr. Manuel Raíces, Business Executive of the CIGB and Dr. Abel Hernández, Head of Department of Plant Biotechnology held meetings with the two largest Mongolian pharmaceutical companies IVCO LLC, EM-Impex Concern and "Monos Pharm "LLC and a group of businessmen from the sector convened by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Mongolia.

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