New York, 22 January 2018. The Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ambassador Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, participated in the first session this year of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). 

Dublin, January 20, 2018. Members of the executive of the Cuban Support Group, headed by its president, the architect Simon McGuinness, paid a visit to the new ambassador of Cuba in Ireland, Hugo René Ramos Milanes. At the meeting, they talked animatedly about the multiple tasks developed by the organization in the course of 2017 and the main goals proposed for the year that has just begun.

H.E. Mr. Heraldo Muñoz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Chile;

H.E. Mr. Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China;

H.E. Ambassador Victor Manuel Valle, President Pro-Tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

Distinguished Foreign Ministers and Representatives:

I would like to convey my gratitude to Chile, particularly to Santiago de Chile, for its warm welcome.

H.E. Mr. Heraldo Muñoz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Chile;

H.E. Mr. Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China;

H.E. Ambassador Victor Manuel Valle, President Pro-Tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

Distinguished Foreign Ministers and Representatives:

I would like to convey my gratitude to Chile, particularly to Santiago de Chile, for its warm welcome.

The Ambassador, Vilma Reyes Valdespino, received Annette Mark and Nadine Agard-Juillerat, Director and Deputy Executive Director, respectively, of the Vincentian Investment Agency, "Invest SVG", at the Cuban Mission headquarters

The entity, immersed in a process of refining its work and expanding its links with the outside world, considers Cuba as a point of reference in terms of attraction, legal protection and investment promotion, and in this sense wishes to expand the coordination and cooperation with its counterpart in the largest island of the Antilles.

Cuban Ambassador Vilma Reyes Valdespino received the Honorable Saboto Caesar, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labor of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at the headquarters of the Cuban Mission.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla will head the Cuban delegation that will participate in the CELAC Foreign Ministers' Meeting and the Second Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the CELAC-China Forum, which will take place on January 21 and 22 in Santiago de Chile, Chile.

The occasion will be propitious to consolidate the unity of Latin America and the Caribbean, strengthen the work of CELAC and its actions as a recognized interlocutor of the region with diverse extra-regional partners and in multiple multilateral scenarios.

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NIGERIA, January 19, 2018. On Wednesday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria, Geoffrey Onyeama, received Cuban Ambassador Carlos Trejo Sosa in the afternoon.
The meeting took place in a cordial atmosphere, reflecting bilateral relations between both countries and addressed issues related to international politics.

To be selected in the upcoming second stage of Cuban elections are 605 deputies and members of Cuba's Council of State, including its President and Vice President. As a genuine expression of democracy, the first stage of Cuba's general elections 2017-2018 concluded, this past December 17, with the constitution of 168 Municipal Assemblies of People's Power, composed of more than 12,000 delegates, elected directly and secretly by the population, who participated in a first and second round vote November 26 and December 3, respectively.