KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 27th, 2017. Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, welcomed this morning, the Cuban Ambassador, Bernardo Guanche Hernandez, who´s ending his tour of duty in this Caribbean nation.
During the friendly meeting, carried out in the Office of the Prime Minister, both parts expressed the satisfaction for the excellent level of the bilateral relations and the cooperation in different areas.
Cuba Bladet magazine, promoted by the Danish-Cuban Association of Friendship in Denmark, dedicates in its September edition several articles that reflect the multiple effects that the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States over 50 years has caused to the Cuban people.
Kuwait, 26 September 2017. The President of the National Assembly of the State of Kuwait, Marzouq Ali Alghanim received the Cuban ambassador Andrés González Garrido at the headquarter of the Kuwaiti parliament.
At the meeting, on the occasion of the next term of mission of the Cuban diplomat, they referred to the fraternal bilateral relations between the two countries.
On the occasion of the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of All Nuclear Weapons on 26 September, we wish to recall the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace, adopted at the CELAC Summit held on 28 and 29 January of 2014 in Havana, which is an important contribution of our region to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons and the use of force.
The Ambassador of Cuba, Pedro Luis Despaigne González, received in his office a delegation of the Private Universities Students’ Association of Ghana (PUSAG), headed by its President and Executive Director, Mr. Samuel Okyere Sarpong.
GENEVA, September 26, 2017.- On commemorating the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, the Permanent Mission of Cuba calls once again to raise awareness of the threat posed by nuclear weapons and the need for their total elimination.
KINGSTON, JAMAICA, September 26th, 2017.The Peace Council of Jamaica made a public statement urging all the governments from Latin America and the Caribbean to act in correspondence with the Declaration of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to preserve the region as Zone of Peace, through the signature and ratification of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, launched by United Nations last September 20th, 2017.
On Tuesday, September 26, 2017, at the proposal of the Cuban side, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, was received by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the State Department.
The meeting took place in a respectful ambiance.
New York, September 26, 2017. Rodolfo Reyes Rodríguez, Director General for Multilateral Affairs and International Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, meber of the Cuban delegation to the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly, participated in the High-level plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the “International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons”.
