Roseau. March 21, 2019. Members of the solidarity movement with Cuba in Dominica held a meeting on the night of yesterday, March 20, 2019, with the Ambassador of Cuba in this country. Ulises Arranz Fernández. The meeting took place at the offices of the Dominican Agency for Exports and Imports (DEXIA), where Gregoire Thomas, General Manager of the Agency, who was part of the first group of dominican students who studied in Cuba and graduated from Higher Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Havana.

On Wednesday morning, March 20, 2019, the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, received HE Mr. Eltayeb Abuelgassim Fadul Abuelgassim, ambassador of the Republic of the Sudan in a solemn audience.

The diplomat presented the Letter of Credence that accredit him as Ambassador of the Republic of the Sudan in the Republic of Cuba and, at the conclusion of the ceremony, the head of mission laid a wreath at the Monument to José Martí, in the Plaza de la Revolución.

Hon. Hajia Alima Mahama, Minister for Local Government and Rural Development of Ghana, received the courtesy call on her paid by the Ambassador of Cuba, Pedro Luis Despaigne González, who presented her with a collaboration project of the Cuban construction company UNECA S.A.

Law Helms-Burton has no impact whatsoever, practical impact in Cuba. It’s a US Law with no jurisdiction whatsoever in Cuba and cannot be applied in any sovereign country that respects its sovereignty. Its jurisdiction is limited to the United States. In addition to that, Cuba passed a law in 1996 that defined that Helms-Burton was null and void of any meaning or impact in our country so in practical terms it has no effect whatsoever in Cuba.

Law Helms-Burton has no impact whatsoever, practical impact in Cuba. It’s a US Law with no jurisdiction whatsoever in Cuba and cannot be applied in any sovereign country that respects its sovereignty. Its jurisdiction is limited to the United States. In addition to that, Cuba passed a law in 1996 that defined that Helms-Burton was null and void of any meaning or impact in our country so in practical terms it has no effect whatsoever in Cuba.

Law Helms-Burton has no impact whatsoever, practical impact in Cuba. It’s a US Law with no jurisdiction whatsoever in Cuba and cannot be applied in any sovereign country that respects its sovereignty. Its jurisdiction is limited to the United States. In addition to that, Cuba passed a law in 1996 that defined that Helms-Burton was null and void of any meaning or impact in our country so in practical terms it has no effect whatsoever in Cuba.

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Kingston, Jamaica, 20 March 2019. Diane Edwards, president of JAMPRO, the Jamaican government agency for the promotion of trade and investment, received the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba, Mrs. Inés Fors Fernández, at the headquarters of the institution.

The Ambassador of Cuba in Zimbabwe signed the Book of Condolences opened in the Embassy of Kenya on the morning of March 20 for the plane crash that took place on March 10 in Ethiopia, which killed 157 people of more than 30 nationalities. The Ethiopian Airlines plane covered the Addis Ababa-Nairobi route and crashed shortly after takeoff. The head of the Cuban diplomatic mission lamented the accident and conveyed the condolences of the government and people of Cuba to the relatives of the victims.

Today in the afternoon, the Ambassador of Cuba, Mario Alzugaray, attended the New Zealand Parliament, to sign the book of condolences opened on the occasion of the terrorist attacks that occurred in Christchurch.

The Cuban diplomat reiterated the message made public by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla a few hours after the tragic attack was known, echoing Cuba's condemnation of all terrorist acts, methods and practices.