Havana, Nov 16 (Prensa Latina) The Austrian vice-minister of Science, Research and Economy, Bernadette Marianne Gierlinger, is  beginning a visit to Cuba today, with the purpose of signing a memorandum of understanding on international economic collaboration.

According to a press release published on the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the Austrian official was invited by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment.

New York, 16 November 2016. Cuba reiterated today that it turns out to be unsustainable to continue financing Special Political Missions through the UN Regular Budget and considered that such Missions should be financed in the same way as peacekeeping operations, including the use of its scale of assessments and an account exclusively dedicated to them.

On November 15, the President of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers received His Excellency Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, making an official visit to the country

Today, Cuba has a relatively strong domestic pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry, which responds to the needs of the population and to export opportunities, but things were very different in the late 1970s.

At that time, Cuba had to rely on expensive imports of vaccines and drugs, a dependence all the more difficult in the context of the United States embargo which restricted the sale of medicines from the US to Cuba.

Ulaanbataar, November 14, 2016.- On November 14, the Chancellery's Consulate Department organized a meeting between diplomats attending consular affairs of diplomatic missions and some government institutions.
Diplomatic missions from the United States, the United Arab Emirates, the Republic of Korea, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Canada, Cuba, Kuwait, Laos, the Russian Federation, Turkey, Hungary, India and France; And Honorary Consuls from Albania, Belgium, Cyprus, Thailand, and Sweden.

Indonesia, November 12, 2016. Today Damaris Morales's salsa class at the centrally located Bar-Restaurant of the Hotel Dempasar in Jakarta became the appropriate venue for the launch of a call for lifting of the blockade imposed by the USA to Cuba and for a normal and friendly relationship between both countries.

The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television invites executives, producers and experts in general, to participate in the Radio & Television Convention Cuba 2017, and International Expo-Fair which will be held on September 10-15, 2017 at the Palace of Conventions in Havana, Cuba, in order to promote the exchange of ideas, cooperation and commercialization of technology, products and services.