Cuban Parliament today passed a new Foreign Investment Law to allow access to foreign capital, technologies and new markets as well as insert national products and services in the international market. The legislation, approved with the unanimous vote of the Cuban deputies, also seeks to yields positive effects in the domestic industry for national economic growth. Cuba Encourages Foreign Investment »
The National People’s Assembly elected this Saturday two new members of the Council of State of Cuba, the legislative body representing the island between the two sessions.»
Cuba needs a direct foreign investment of about US$ 2.5 billion year to fund its socialist, prosperous, and sustainable socio-economic model, said Vice President of the Council of Ministers, Marino Murillo, this Saturday. Murillo made his statement at the special session of Parliament, attended by Cuban President Raul Castro, in which the draft bill on foreign investment was brought into »
Cuba condemned before the UN General Assembly the intervention of the United States and NATO in Ukrainian internal affaire, a stand described as a threat to world peace and security.»
President Raul Castro bestowed the Order of Jose Marti upon Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who concludes an official visit to this country.»
Cuban legislators are meeting today, first in commissions and later in plenary session, to complete preparation for the final discussion on the project of a new Foreign Investment Law.»
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung today began an official visit to Cuba, on an invitation by President Raul Castro.»
On the occasion of bicentennial of the birth of the Spanish-Cuban writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, more than 105.000 people claim her posthumous appointment as member of the Real Academia Española (RAE), rejected in 1853.»
Cuba’s Council of Ministers approved a salary increase for the health sector during a meeting on Wednesday headed by President Raul Castro.»
Cuba called at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) for the total elimination of nuclear weapons, and highlighted a decision from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to declare the region a peace zone.»
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