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President Francois Hollande (France) and Raul Castro (Cuba) reaffirmed today the willingness to strengthen the bilateral relations. “Today we are opening a new page in the links between the two countries,” said Hollande during a joint statement from the Elysee Palace. He referred to the signing of a bilateral economic road map covering sectors like tourism and transport, while noting »

Cuba President, Raul Castro, was received today with an official ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in the French capital, at the beginning of a two-day state visit to this country. During the ceremony, in the presence of the French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, Ségolne Royal, the traditional wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was »

President of Cuba, Raul Castro Ruz, arrived in Paris for a state visit to the French Republic, at the invitation of the French President, Francois Hollande. The head of state is leading a delegation made up of Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, vice president of the Council of Ministers, and Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, ministers of Foreign Affairs and »

Army General Raul Castro, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and president of the councils of State and Ministers, attends in Havana the sixth regular session of the Eighth Legislature of the National Assembly of the People’s Power. Also present at the meeting are Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, second secretary of the PCC and »

Cuban deputies are meeting today on the third and last day of debates of the Parliament permanent commissions, previously to the Parliament’s 6th Ordinary Session of the 8th Legislature. Since Saturday, the 10th parliamentary groups are debating at the Convention Center about fundamental issues involved in the Cuban society, which is immerse in an economic and social transformation.»

The protection of human rights in Cuba is at the center of the State’s attention, asserted the General Prosecutor of the Republic, Dario Delgado in an interview regarding World Day of Human Rights, published by Granma daily. Many are the results of Cuba in the protection of its citizens since January 1, 1959. But of all that has been achieved, »

Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez is in New York to attend a new vote of the UN General Assembly on the need to put end to the US blockade against the Island. Rodriguez who arrived to this city yesterday, will speak on Tuesday to the plenary of 193 countries, in which forum in the last 23 years Washington’s siege have »

If renowned Bishop Juan José Díaz de Espada y Fernánez de Landa —who centuries ago enjoyed the thermal waters of Villa San José del Lago— were still alive, he would have for sure welcomed the over a million budget earmarked for the refurbishment of the touristic village located in the Cuban north-central region of Majajigua, about 120 km from Sancti »

The merit of Las Villas North Front’s men, and in particular the unifying role of their leader, Commander Camilo Cienfuegos, were highlighted in a military ceremony held Tuesday in Yaguajay, to honor the combatants of that force fallen during the national liberation war, or after the triumph of the Revolution in January, 1959. Floral wreaths from the historic leader of »

Cuban President Raul Castro thanked at UN the unanimous support of the international community to stop the economic, financial and trade blockade of the island, imposed by the United States more than half a century ago. Speaking in the first day of discussions at the top-level Summit of the UN General Assembly, the president highlighted that 188 Governments and countries »