Women at the center of transformation process in Cuba
Cuba on Tuesday is celebrating International Women's Day with progress in political, cultural, social and family rights, and also challenges that place them at the center of the transformation process in the island. The founding of the Federation of Cuban Women in 1960 enabled that women could participate in determining policies and implementing measures to eliminate prejudices and stereotypes that kept them in a subordinate position in society.
Statement by Juan Antonio Quintanilla Román, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Cuba, at the General Segment of the 49th regular session of the Human Rights Council.
Last February 26, the Cuban Government issued a statement on the events that are taking place in Ukraine, in which it clearly expressed its position in favor of a solution that guarantees the security and sovereignty of all and addresses legitimate humanitarian concerns. Our position on this issue was also extensively addressed during the statement of the Cuban delegation on the occasion of the emergency special session of the UN General Assembly held this week.
“Cuba champions a solution that guarantees the security and sovereignty of all
Statement by the Revolutionary Government
The U.S. determination to continue NATO’s progressive expansion towards the Russian Federation borders has brought about a scenario with implications of unpredictable scope, which could have been avoided.
United States’ and NATO’s military moves towards regions adjacent to the Russian Federation in recent months, preceded by the delivery of modern weapons to Ukraine, which together conform a military siege, are well known.
The Association of Friendship with Cuba is decorated in Finland
Not even the snow prevented this Friday the Cuban headquarters in Lauttasaari from being filled with joy, at the meeting of thirty members of the Finland-Cuba Friendship Association with the Diplomatic Mission of the Island, in this Nordic country. The moment led to the ambassador appointed by Cuba, Beatriz Parra González, delivering the Commemorative Seal "ICAP's 60th Anniversary" conferred by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) for its six decades of accompanying the Cuban people and the dissemination of their social reality. The Cuban diplomat stressed the importance of Cuba having friends who support it and spread its truth, while denouncing the cruel circumstances in which the country lives as a result of the United States blockade.
Cuba Tourism Exhibition 2022 will be held between May 3 and 7, in Plaza América in Varadero
After a renovation, Plaza América and its convention center, in Varadero, will host the 40th International Tourism Exhibition, FITCuba 2022, which will relaunch the Cuban tourism product between 3 and May 7, 2022. “Those who attend the main commercial exchange in the sector in the country will find rooms prepared and set up with new technologies, in accordance with the demands of the moment,” said Zulema Afá, event organizer for the facility at the well-known Cuban sun and beach destination.