The Cuban Embassy’s staff visited Tehran Milad Tower, where the Nowruz Festival is taking place. Nowruz is a typical holiday that marks the beginning of the New Year, according to the Persian calendar.

Along with the exhibition of artistic and cultural manifestations of different regions of the Persian nation, a pavilion was allocated for hosting Iranian Friendship Associations with other Countries. Each association offers there to the audience an allegorical image of the country which represent and samples of handicrafts and local products of those foreign cultures.

ZIMBABWE, March 21, 2017. Cuban Ambassador Elio Savón Oliva paid a visit to Cuban doctors who work in the Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital in the Mashonaland region in the north central part of the country.

The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) and its Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean sent a letter of congratulations to the National Union of Public Employees (NUPW) of Barbados in the framework of the Annual Conference. The message addressed to its president, Akanni McDowall, was read at its headquarters in Dalkeith Road by Cuban Ambassador Francisco Fernandez, who highlighted the leadership and militancy of the Caribbean Union in defense of workers and the message of solidarity of the working class. The full text of the letter can then be read.

Comrade Akanni McDowall
President
NUPW
Barbados.

Dear Comrade:

The Cuban Workers' Central Union, its National Trade Unions and the Cuban workers, transmit the warmest, solidarity greetings to the NUPW Annual Conference.

Cuba, a country that is characterized by promoting solidarity relations, which is identified by its way of thinking and acting, with sovereignty and independence, aims to maintain the solid and traditional ties of friendship that the NUPW has had for many years with the Cuban trade union movement.

Llamado a la competencia de la persona para los 50 años después del asesinato del Che.

Nicosia, 23 de Marzo, 2017.

Indonesia, March 23, 2017. Cuban Ambassador Nirsia Castro Guevara delivered to the President of Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Dr. H. Abdul Kharis Almasyhari, a document containing the official position of Cuba in defense of the Peace and nuclear disarmament, and explains the actions the country is taking to eliminate the threat posed by military weapons of this type. Dr. Khairis, for his part, pointed out the coincidence in the positions of the two countries in favor of peace and disarmament.

An observatory for the study of ocean acidification was inaugurated yesterday in Cienfuegos, Cuba, in the presence of Mr Dazhu Yang, IAEA Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation.

The observatory, part of the Centre for Environmental Studies of Cienfuegos (CEAC), is located in the Faro Luna Diving Centre in the south central province of the country.

Iranian friends representing organizations of solidarity with Cuba in the Persian nation are preparing to visit our country in the coming days, where they will fulfill programs arranged by their host, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP).

Port of Spain, March 23 .- The president of "Friends of Cuba in Trinidad and Tobago" Clyde Callender held a cordial meeting with Guillermo Vázquez Moreno, Cuban ambassador and Alex González García, first secretary of the Embassy, ​​in the which was exchanged ideas and information on several of the activities that the solidarity movement with Cuba organizes for the current year.