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.

PEACE admits no ambiguities. During the sixth meeting of ministers of foreign affairs of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) – Cuba in George, Guyana on Friday, Rodriguez said the meeting took place at a moment when peace in our region was being jeopardised.Peace admits no ambiguities – Bruno Rodriguez

 Cuba’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Dr. Jerome Walcott, paying their respects to the 73 passengers and crew of Cubana Airlines Flight 455, who were killed off the coast of Barbados on October 6, 1976.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Dr. Jerome Walcott, greets Cuba’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, at the start of their working meeting yesterday. (B.Hinds/BGIS)

Barbados is seeking to expand its bilateral cooperation with Cuba in health, education, the blue economy and disaster mitigation.

Mr. Khalifa Alqubaisi, Deputy Director General of Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), received Ambassador Jorge León Cruz, who delivered a letter from Antonio Rodríguez Rodríguez, President of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources and member of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, addressed to SE Mohammed Saif Al Suwaiti, General Director of ADFD, for a visit to Cuba.

Cuban Doctors and nurses have become a permanent part of the Belizean medical landscape - and right that they should because they have been here for 28 years.

That's right, Cuba has been sending medical personnel to Belize since 1990. and, right now, there are 87 Cubans serving in the Belizean health sector.

And, this week in Havana, Cuba Health Minister Pablo Marin honored them at an event held at a celebrated art gallery and community center.  

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, participated to the 6th CARICOM-Cuba Ministerial Meeting, which took place in Guyana last June 14. In his speech, reiterates the Cuban´s permanent commitment to cooperate and share its modest achievement with the Caribbean.