CUBA, April 12th, 2019.- Representatives from Cuba and the European Union will meet this Tuesday, April 16th, in Havana, to hold the first Dialogue on Sustainable Development Cuba-European Union. The Cuban delegation will be headed by Director General for Multilateral Affairs and International Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rodolfo Reyes Rodríguez, and the European part, by the Director General for International Cooperation and Development at the European Commission, Stefano Manservisi.

CUBA, April 12th, 2019.- Representatives from Cuba and the European Union will meet this Tuesday, April 16th, in Havana, to hold the first Dialogue on Sustainable Development Cuba-European Union. The Cuban delegation will be headed by Director General for Multilateral Affairs and International Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rodolfo Reyes Rodríguez, and the European part, by the Director General for International Cooperation and Development at the European Commission, Stefano Manservisi. 

Beirut April 15, 2019. The Minister of Health of Lebanon, Jamil Jabaq, received today the Ambassador of Cuba, Alexander Pellicer Moraga at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health of the Lebanese Republic.

The two officials analyzed the possibilities of establishing mechanisms of cooperation in the health sector and in the production of medicines. The possibility of exchanging experiences between professionals from both nations was also analyzed.

The Ambassador of Cuba in Egypt, Tania Aguiar Fernández, gave a lecture at Badr University of Cairo, in the context of the 4th Latino Festival organized by that educational center. The lecture had the blockade of the United States against Cuba as its central axis, which aroused great interest among the attendants.

Also, she took the opportunity to explore the possibilities of cooperation between that university and its Cuban counterparts, and there were also an exchange on Cuban culture and economy.

The trap

By Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada

Since the beginning of this year the United States State Department has issued several announcements on the partial suspension of the implementation of some aspects of a chapter of the so-called Helms-Burton Act. It has been done so with a cheating style, fraudulent, characteristic of the current rulers, with the clear intention of creating uncertainty and confusion, purpose for which they count, as usual, with the means they were supposed to devote themselves to reporting. 

RAUL Castro says the Venezuelan government and the Chavista people are writing admirable chapters of resistance. The Communist Party of Cuba First Secretary asked Cubans to remain alert and aware that “we could face additional difficulties and that the situation could worsen in coming months” in view of US aggression against the island.

The Mast, 14 April 2019. RAUL Castro says the Venezuelan government and the Chavista people are writing admirable chapters of resistance. The Communist Party of Cuba First Secretary asked Cubans to remain alert and aware that “we could face additional difficulties and that the situation could worsen in coming months” in view of US aggression against the island.

Pretoria, April 15, 2019.- The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel, stated in his Twitter account that "Cuba is tirelessly working for the safe return of Assel (Herrera) and Landy (Rodríguez), our doctors kidnapped in Kenya . With them and their loved ones we share the certainty that their humanitarian mission will be respected and recognized. We believe in the power of solidarity ».

Pretoria, April 15, 2019.-  The XIII Biennial of Havana was officially inaugurated on Friday morning, an event sponsored by the National Council of Plastic Arts and the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center.
Under the general theme "the Construction of the Possible" the present edition of the Biennial was presented by its organizers as a space for those typologies of contemporary art that understand creation as a "living event".

New York, 15 April 2019. In his statement at the Tenth Session of the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on Aging, Jorge Luis Cepero Aguilar, Second Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, stated that in the island the increase in the quality of life of the elderly has been possible thanks to the political will of the Government and to the efforts and participation of the people.