On January 16, 2019, the United States State Department announced the decision to suspend for only 45 days the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, “to conduct a careful review… in light of the national interests of the United States and efforts to expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba and include factors such as the Cuban regime’s brutal oppression of human rights and fundamental freedoms and its indefensible support for increasingly authoritarian and corrupt regimes in Venezuela and Nicaragua.”

Wellington, January 23rd, 2019. Third Secretary Saimin Fis Abad was invited by the team of Radio Que Onda to share all the information related to the Cuba Photo Contest, that the Embassy of Cuba in New Zealand and Havana Coffee Works have launched, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Cuba and New Zealand.

President Edgar Lungu says government will not borrow recklessly to finance the country’s transformation and development process.
President Lungu said his administration

Excellent working meeting of the Cuban delegation chaired by Luis Fernando Moreno Martinez, Deputy Minister MINSAP and Hussain Abdul Rahman Al Rand, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health to develop bilateral cooperation.

The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba condemns and energetically rejects the attempt to impose a coup d’etat, a puppet government at the service of the United States, in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and expresses its unwavering solidarity with the government of Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro Moros.

The true objectives of actions against Venezuela are to control the vast resources of this sister nation and destroy the value of its example, as an emancipatory process defending the dignity and independence of Our America.

The New Year´s Reception hosted by the Mayor of the city of Vienna, Dr. Michael Ludwig to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Austrian capital was an appropriate occasion for the Cuban Ambassador, His Excellency, Mr. Juan Antonio Fernández Palacios and the distinguished host to extensively talk about the bonds of friendship and cooperation existing between Havana and Vienna and to reaffirm their readiness to continue strengthening them.

A Cuban government delegation headed by the Deputy Minister of Public Health, Dr. Marcia Cobas Ruíz made a work visit to Ghana from 20 to 22 January, 2019, where filled out an agenda that included contacts to different levels of the Ghanaian government to strengthen bilateral relations and expand economic-commercial cooperation ties.

MALDIVAS, January 23, 2019. - The Ambassador of Cuba, Juana Elena Ramos Rodríguez, paid a courtesy call on the President of Maldives, His Excellency Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, at the President’s Office.

During the meeting, the President expressed his sincere gratitude for the assistance Cuba has given to the Maldives, especially in the health sector. He also expressed interest in strengthening relations between the two countries and was interested in increasing scholarship opportunities for Maldivian students to complete their higher education in Cuban institutions.