Islamabad, February 17, 2026. During an event held by the Diplomatic Corps accredited in this capital city to bid farewell to the Ambassador of Portugal, the occasion was also used to welcome the new ambassadors, including the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba, Damián Cordero Torres, and his wife, who was presented with a beautiful bouquet of flowers.

Signing of a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in animal health between Cuba and Poland.

Warsaw, February 18—The Cuban Animal Health Center (CENASA) and the Polish General Veterinary Inspectorate, represented by Dr. Cristobal Arredondo Alfonso, Director General of CENASA, and Pawel Meyer, Chief Veterinarian of Poland, signed a memorandum of cooperation in the veterinary field in this capital.

Statement by the Association of Pakistani Doctors Graduated in #Cuba against the genocidal blockade imposed on our island by the neighbor to the north. The Yankee establishment cannot accept that a small island does so much for other nations, so those who are grateful that our land has made them better men come forward and ask for an end to the hegemon's onslaught.

Solidarity is David's armor against Goliath. Thank you on behalf of the homeland. #CubaEstáFirme

The U.S. blockade against Cuba was never merely a series of sanctions. It was a comprehensive plan of U.S. aggression aimed at subjugating, through deception and force, a people unwilling to abandon socialism. The United States not only prohibited American companies from trading with Cuba — an independent and sovereign country with the right to trade with other nations — but also threatened the entire world with massive sanctions, effectively preventing almost any economic, financial, or commercial relationship with Cuba.

Prominent figures from the academic, journalistic, artistic, and trade union spheres in Türkiye have signed a declaration of solidarity with the Cuban people promoted by the José Martí Friendship Association with Cuba, in the context of the tightening of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the Government of the United States.

The measure adopted by the #US government on January 29, based on the fallacy of an alleged threat to the US national security, whereby it threatens to impose punitive tariffs on those countries that export fuel to #Cuba, poses a challenge of huge proportions to all States.

It is about limiting, through absurd pretexts, the sovereign prerogative of every country when deciding whether or not they would export and to what destinations they would export their national patrimonial products to.

New York, 18 February, 2026 – The Deputy Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations took part in the general debate of the session of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (C-34), where she reaffirmed the Island’s commitment to upholding the UN Charter and strengthening multilateralism.

Pretoria, February 18, 2026.- The Deputy Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC), Nomvula Mokonyane, reiterated the party's solidarity with the government and people of Cuba in the face of renewed and harsher sanctions against the island and the United States oil blockade. During the meeting, they also discussed how to strengthen the inter-party relations between the ANC and the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), as well as bilateral cooperation.

Paris, 18 February 2025. — On Wednesday afternoon, the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Cuba to UNESCO, María del Carmen Herrera Caseiro, met with the Director-General of the Organization, Dr. Khaled El-Enany. In that context, she provided a detailed explanation of the negative impact on Cuba of the executive order signed by the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, on January 29.

In this regard, the diplomat denounced this new and brutal act of aggression aimed at reinforcing the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government against Cuba for more than 65 years, which has been tightened year after year. “With this decision, the U.S. government seeks, through threats and coercion against third countries, to reinforce the economic strangulation measures imposed since Trump’s first term,” the representative of the Island stated, explaining that the recent actions are intended to impose a total siege on fuel supplies and to sanction third States that maintain legitimate trade relations with Cuba.

London, 18 February 2026. After more than two decades of occasional exchanges between experts, the National Botanical Garden of Cuba (JBN) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew Gardens) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Scientific and Academic Collaboration that takes their historic relationship to new heights.