Cuban Ambassador Vladimir Gonzalez Quesada held his first meeting with the Director General for Political Affairs and International Security at the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Dr. Hossein Dehghani, who has just assumed this responsibility after serving as Alternate Ambassador of the Iranian mission to United Nations.
At the invitation of the Embassy of Iraq and the Association of Iraqi Students at the University of Tehran, the Cuban Ambassador Vladimir Gonzalez Quesada attended the photographic exhibition "A Vision of Iraq, 100 years of history, culture and struggle”, which was inaugurated at the Faculty of Fine Arts of this high studies center.
The Cuban Embassy’s staff visited Tehran Milad Tower, where the Nowruz Festival is taking place. Nowruz is a typical holiday that marks the beginning of the New Year, according to the Persian calendar.
Along with the exhibition of artistic and cultural manifestations of different regions of the Persian nation, a pavilion was allocated for hosting Iranian Friendship Associations with other Countries. Each association offers there to the audience an allegorical image of the country which represent and samples of handicrafts and local products of those foreign cultures.
Iranian friends representing organizations of solidarity with Cuba in the Persian nation are preparing to visit our country in the coming days, where they will fulfill programs arranged by their host, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP).
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.
The Vice-President of the Republic and President of the Organization for Environmental Protection, Dr. Masume Ebtekar, chaired the official ceremony of planting the amity tree in the surrounding area of the emblematic Milad Tower, to contribute to preserve the Tehran’s environment.
The ceremony was attended by members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Persian nation and Cuba was represented by Ambassador Vladimir Gonzalez Quesada, who was accompanied by the Counselor in charge of Consular Affairs, Rebeca Fernandez Nuñez.
The Cuban Embassy in Tehran did not want to miss an important event such as the International Women's Day, which is celebrated in many parts of the world, and met to pay homage to all the women who work in the Mission.
In his speech for the occasion, Ambassador Vladimir González Quesada stressed that it has already become a tradition to meet every March 8th to congratulate and charm the Cuban women who share in the work and daily life with the rest of the collective’s members.
The Tehran Mayor's Office convened its traditional annual tree planting ceremony to contribute to the reforestation of the city and its surroundings, in which representatives of the Bolivarian Alliance for Peoples of the Our America- Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) were present.
The official ceremony was chaired by the Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran, Ali Larijani, and the Mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and was attended by City Council officials and members of the accredited Diplomatic Corps.
Conductors of the program "Power", jointly produced by the Lebanese TV station Al-Mayadeen and the multinational TeleSur, interviewed the Cuban Ambassador Vladimir Gonzalez Quesada in Tehran. The dialogue focused on the new challenges for Latin America and in particular for Cuba, in the current regional scenario.
The Center for Human Rights and Cultural Diversity of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) convened Heads of Mission of the Latin American countries represented in Teheran that are members of the organization, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Declaration and Plan of Action adopted in this capital, which led to the establishment of the above mentioned center.
