Representatives of the board of the Association of Resident Cubans ¨Martires de Barbados¨ and Cuban collaborators, with the Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
Ambassador Tania Aguiar Fernández; held a meeting with Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of the Environment of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Participated on the Egyptian side Councilor Tamer Mostafa M. Ali, Cabinet Chief of the Minister ; Abir AbuZeid, Assistant Secretary of the Egyptian Agency for Environmental Affairs and Tamer Abougharara, Assistant to the Minister. Accompanied by the Ambassador, Counselor Dennis Casares Benítez.
The ambassador of Cuba in Egypt, Tania Aguiar Fernandez, held a meeting with the main figures of the Nation's Future Party. Ashraf Rashad Al-Sherif, Chairman of the Party, participated in the meeting; Hossam ElKhouly, General Secretary of the Party; Tariq al-Khouli, Secretary General of the Party's Foreign Affairs, as well as other officials of the Latin American Department of the Party's Secretariat of Foreign Affairs. On the Cuban side he accompanied the Ambassador, Councilor Dennis Casares Benítez, official of the Cuban Mission.
Washington, June 20, 2019. Carnival, the world''s largest cruise company, reduced its prospects for profits this year due to the decision by the Government of the United States to suspend its ships'' voyages to Cuba.
In a communiqué, the firm adjusted its predictions from 4.35-4.55 to 4.25-4.35 dollars, due to the US actions.
Other companies in the sector, such as Norwegian Cruise and Royal Caribbean, also reduced their growth predictions after the measures taken by the Donald Trump administration.
New York, 20 June 2019.Cuba deposited today the instrument of ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. With this step, Cuba reaffirms its commitment to the elimination of ozone-depleting substances, a fundamental goal of the Montreal Protocol and the Kigali Amendment. The Cuban government has been a signatory to the Montreal Protocol since 1992 and has been eliminating a group of important substances ever since.
The director of Sub-Saharan Africa of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Gisela García, made an official visit to the island of Mauritius from this Monday, June 17. During this visit, which lasted until June 19, Gisela held fruitful meetings with different officers of the Mauritian chancellery and ministers of this insular country, such as the Minister of Youth and Sports Jean Christophe Stephan Toussaint, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs , Dwarka Canabady, as well as the Director of Multilaterals, Rakesh Bhuchory.
This Monday was inaugurated in Harare, the IV edition of the Ibero-American Film Festival. This event is organized by the embassies of Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Cuba as a way to show and spread our film industry in this area of the world. This year the venue was the REPS Theater, with the support of the Harare Film Society. The film presented was "Campeones", Spanish film that monopolized laughs and applause in all the public, guaranteeing once again the success of this Festival. The Cuban film will be exhibited on Saturday, June 22, closing this edition of 2019.
The screening of the Cuban film "A Translator", directed by Sebastian and Rodrigo Barriuso was held on June 17 at the Cinematheque (Cinemateket) in Copenhagen. The movies received a very positive reaction from the public.
