New York, 7 November 2016. “We support renewed and steady efforts aimed at speeding up the negotiations on the Security Council Reform, an item included in the General Assembly Agenda during more than 20 years”, reiterated the Cuban Ambassador Humberto Rivero Rosario, at the General Debate on the “Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council”.

Nana Odikwour Baah Kokroko III, Shediem's traditional leader, paid a courtesy visit to the Cuban Ambassador to Ghana, Pedro Luis Despaigne González.

During the meeting, the traditional leader and the Ambassador exchanged on the historical relations between the peoples of Cuba and Ghana, and on the date back to the pre-colonial period in Ghana and colonial times in Cuba. The Traditional Chief explained some elements of the history of the Ashanti Kingdom and over the role of the traditional Chieftaincy within the Ghanaian political system.

The Auckland Cuba Friendship Society applauds the recent UN vote against the U.S. blockade of Cuba where, for the first time, the U.S. and Israel abstained. The final vote against lifting the crippling 56-year blockade – the longest in world history – was 191 to 0, with two abstentions.

The book "Who Killed Che?" from the authors Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith, published in 2011 in United States, saw the light in its Farsi edition, at Rasaneh Cultural Center in Tehran. This valuable work is the result of the efforts of Cuba’s friends, Mohammad Ghorbani and Ali Aboutalebí, who translated and edited the book.

This book makes available to Iranian readers a substantial analysis and declassified documents on the operation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to assassinate Che Guevara in 1967 in Bolivia and get away with this heinous crime.

New York, 4 November 2016. Cuba reiterated its concern for the tendency at the Human Rights Council to impose selectivity and double standards when dealing with human rights situations.“Today, the Council requires to be rescued from the selectivity and political manipulation characterizing its work in the treatment of country situations. Cooperation and respectful dialogue should govern the work of this organ”, considered today Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal, Deputy Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, while addressing the 71 UNGA Plenary.

LAS BAHAMAS, 4th November 2016. -The Cuban Ambassador to the Bahamas, Ismara Vargas Walter, attended as a special guest the radio program "Let's Talk Live", Radio Guardian's 96.9, hosted by the veteran journalist Carlton Smith.

THE BAHAMAS, 4th November, 2016. – As part of the Caribbean History course, the Cuban Ambassador to The Bahamas, Ismara Vargas Walter, lectured Bahamian students and teachers at Omega College about the History of Cuba.

At the meeting, the diplomat also provided information on current national developments and the measures implemented in Cuba in the context of the process of updating the economic model.

Liberia-Cuba Friendship Association expressed its rejection to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US government to Cuba, in a statement last October 29 statement. The initiative, promoted and organized by Liberians graduates in Cuba who are also members of the Organization, was signed on behalf of all by his vicepresident, Bachelor of Physical Culture Kesselee Kanneh, a graduate of the Institute of Physical Culture Comandante Manuel Fajardo of Cuba.