Over 50,000 Cuban women are engaged in science and technology
Havana, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) More than 50,000 Cuban women were engaged in science and technology activities in 2023, the National Statistics and Information Bureau (ONEI) informed on Thursday.
An estimated 50,633 women, the largest number in the last three years, held technical, administrative, service, and other related jobs, ONEI announced in its latest yearbook edition, Granma newspaper reported.
Ambassador met with President of SriLankan Graduates Association in Cuba
At the Cuban Embassy in Sri Lanka, Ambassador Andrés González Garrido held a meeting with Ciththadhamma Rathnamudali, President of the Association of Sri Lankan Graduates in Cuba, where they discussed the upcoming Asia Pacific regional meeting to be held in Beijing next October and other activities of the Association.
In Sri Lanka, more than 100 professionals studied in Cuba and are active defenders of Cuban causes and its revolution.
Cuba, from the Global South, denounced the coercive measures impacting development
Havana, august 19, 2024.- The impact of the suffocating economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States Government on Cuba, which the people have been enduring for over six decades, was the main denunciation made by the member of the Political Bureau of the Party and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, at the Third Summit of the Voice of the Global South.
Sri Lanka Foreign Minister received Cuban ambassador
Colombo, July 1, 2024. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister M .U. M. Ali Sabry received the Cuban ambassador Andrés Marcelo González Garrido at the Foreign Ministry, with whom exchanged about the fraternal bilateral relations that are developing in different spheres.
During the meeting, the ambassador thanked the government of Sri Lanka for its continued support for the Cuban resolution against the United States blockade in the vote held annually in the UN General Assembly.
Sri Lanka Guardian newspaper published Cuba's intervention at the Human Rights Council in Geneva requesting the removal of Cuba from the list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
Colombo, June 28, 2024. The Sri Lanka Guardian newspaper published in full the intervention of Juan Antonio Quintanilla Román, ambassador, permanent representative of Cuba in Geneva, on behalf of 123 countries, including Sri Lanka, on the occasion of the interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on human rights and solidarity international.
The publication highlighted that the ambassador said that the List of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism goes against the fundamental principles and peremptory norms of international law, including international solidarity.