Kuala Lumpur, April 29- The director of the tropical medicine institute "Pedro Kouri" and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Royal College of Medicine of Perak, Dr Syed Rahim Syed Hamid, held a meeting to discuss possible areas of cooperation between both institutions. In this sense, the exchange of professors, the specialized courses taught by the IPK and the mobility of the students were identified, as well as the carrying out of joint researches in diseases that affect the two countries.

Kuala Lumpur, April 29 - The friendship association with Cuba in Malaysia held the 9th General Assembly on April 27.

During the assembly, Selangor's former chief minister, Tan Sri Khalid, was welcomed as honorary Chairman. In his speech of appreciation, he pointed out the need to support Cuba more and more because in doing so, it defends the independence of third world countries and international law.

Statement by Ambassador Pedro L. Pedroso, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations Office at Geneva and international organizations in Switzerland, at the 20th session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development

Geneva, April 29, 2019

Mr. President,

More than 30 years after its adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the effective implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development remains an unfulfilled one.

April 26, 2019

Fernando Gonzales Llort

President

Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP)

Havana, Cuba

Dear Comrade Fernando Gonzales Llort, 

Warm greetings of Friendship and Solidarity.

The Philippines-Cuba Friendship Association denounces US imposition of its Helms-Burton Act (1996) on Cuba as a Gross Violation of International Law and Cuba’s Sovereignty.

During a press conference, April 25, Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, denounced the U.S. State Department, which, he noted, “is busy in dozens of capitals around the world mobilizing efforts to economically attack Cuba". In a press conference this morning at the Foreign Ministry, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, noted that the day began with an announcement from the U.S. State Department that its list of sanctioned Cuban entities had been updated to include some 200 enterprises, including five new ones. He recalled that U.S.

For the third consecutive time, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) of Ghana participates in the Solidarity Program with Cuba, which organizes the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) as part of the commemoration of International Workers' Day.

On this occasion, the presence of the brigadistas is the scenario of the intensification of the interventionist actions of the current US administration, as recently denounced in his Press Conference, the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.

Trade union organizations from several countries linked to the Central Workers Union of Cuba participate in the activities in greeting to the International Workers' Day and in the 21st Congress of that Cuban organization that met from April 20 to 24 in Havana.

Cease the economic, commercial and financial blockade against the Cuban people.

On April 17 - date that marks the beginning of the defeat of the mercenary invasion of Playa Girón - was chosen by the United States Government to announce new sanctions against Cuba to intensify even more the commercial and financial economic blockade imposed by six decades .

Cuba's team of rhythmic gymnastics participates for the first time in the "AGF Trophy 2019" World Cup that takes place at this moment, in Baku, capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Novice athletes intervene in individual competition and is one of the nations that is also present in groups.

Kingston, Jamaica, 26 April 2019. Horace Daley, member of the Jamaican Parliament, Opposition spokesperson on Labour and Social Security, Vice Chairman of the People's National Party (PNP) board and President of its International Relations Commission, confirmed the unconditional support of his party for the struggle of the Cuban people to lift the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States government.