CUBAN INSTITUTE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PEOPLES

Havana, March 5, 2019
"Year 61 of the Revolution"

Comrade Simon Gill
President of the Association
"Friends of Cuba", ADEC

Dear Friend:

With pleasure we have received the news of your designation as President of the Association of Friends of Cuba, ADEC. It is satisfying to know that the Association is made up of several friends and also graduates from Cuban study centers.

The Ambassador of Cuba in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vilma Reyes Valdespino, gave an interview to the journalist of the WeFM-999 Radio station, Shenon Marshall , about the new Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, approved in the Referendum of March 24, 2019.

The radio program on the Cuban Constitution was broadcasted by the WEFM-99 radio station at noon.

The diplomat began with a brief historical excursion on the rich constitutional tradition of Cuba and the texts that preceded the current fundamental law.

DECLARATION OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects in the strongest terms the new escalation in the US aggressive behavior against Cuba.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects in the strongest terms the new escalation in the US aggressive behavior against Cuba.

The president of the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Hijran Huseynova, reiterated today in Baku the interest of his institution to increase exchanges with Cuban women.

In a meeting between the owner and the island's ambassador in this Caucasian nation, Alfredo Nieves Portuondo, it was valued to increase the relations between the women's organizations of both nations.

Huseynova expressed his interest in carrying out fraternal and cooperative exchanges in multiple economic and commercial spheres of both countries.

Bursa, Turkey, March 5, 2018. As part of the program of activities to commemorate International Women's Day, the Cuban Consul in Turkey, Mayvet González Fernández, articulated a recent conference on the achievements of Cuban women, with the participation of more than 200 friends and members of friendship associations José Martí and Montañeros de Bursa (Koza), co-organizers of the event.

Bursa, Turkey, March 5, 2018. As part of the program of activities to commemorate International Women's Day, the Cuban Consul in Turkey, Mayvet González Fernández, articulated a recent conference on the achievements of Cuban women, with the participation of more than 200 friends and members of friendship associations José Martí and Montañeros de Bursa (Koza), co-organizers of the event.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects in the strongest terms the new escalation in the US aggressive behavior against Cuba.

The US State Department announced today the decision to allow, as from March 19 this year, the filing of lawsuits before US courts under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act only against Cuban companies included in the List of Restricted Entities issued by that government on November of 2017, which was updated one year later. This arbitrary and illegitimate list, intended to tighten the blockade and expand its extraterritorial effects, forbids US citizens from engaging in direct financial transactions with the aforementioned entities. (READ THE COMPLETE STATEMENT)

The Executive of the Saint Lucian Guild of Graduates of Cuba held a work meeting yesterday, February 27th, in which they analyzed the main actions and activities which will be carried out during the present year.

The collective of the Cuban State Mission in Saint Lucia, headed by Ambassador Alejandro Simancas, has ratified their support for peace and their rejection to military intervention in the Bolivarian nation by joining the “hands out of Venezuela” campaign. The Cuban representatives in Saint Lucia were at the Embassy of Venezuela to express their solidarity with the Government and people of that country and to endorse the call to end the interference and imperialist plans of destabilization and aggression.