Havana, Jun 13 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Diaz-Canel met in Havana with Andres Rebolledo, Executive Secretary of the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), to strengthen cooperation with that entity.

National television reported on Wednesday that during the meeting, held at the Palace of the Revolution, the seat of the Government, Diaz-Canel was grateful to Rebolledo for holding the 61st ordinary session of OLADE experts in Cuba.

The president acknowledged the support in training to face the challenges of the country’s energy transition and expressed the willingness to participate in the organization’s projects and proposals.

We know the work on digital transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean, and in other projects, to develop renewable energy sources, the head of State pointed out.

This regional meeting is taking place in Havana on June 13 and 14, with the participation of the 27 States, to discuss energy cooperation in a continent rich in such resources, which needs investment and integration.

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Havana, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) A considerable number of Latin American communicators will be present at the 17th International Seminar on Journalism and Tourism, to be held in Havana from June 17 to 21.

The organizing committee’s spokespeople indicated that 60 professionals, including 45 foreigners from Latin America and Canada, will attend the meeting, along with the largest delegations from Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico.

The Cuban members of the Circle of Tourism Journalists at the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) will participate with representatives nationwide.

During these days, three will be dedicated to debates and lectures with the participation of prominent speakers such as scholars from the University of Ottawa, Canada, Cuban academics Jose Luis Perello, and Pavel Pavon, Director of Technologies and Systems at the Tourism Ministry (MINTUR).

In addition to academic exchanges, participants will visit tourist attractions such as La Bodeguita del Medio and El Floridita restaurants, the Havana Club Rum Museum, the Tropicana Cabaret, and will travel to Varadero beach, in western Matanzas province.

The event is supported by the foreign hotel chains Iberostar and Melia (Spain), Blue Diamond (Canada), and the local companies Los Portales S.A., Internacional Cubana del Tabaco, Cubatur, and Havanatur.

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Havana, Jun 11 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Diaz-Canel thanked his Mexican counterpart, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, for his support and reaffirmed his willingness to continue strengthening bilateral relations during the next term of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum.

In a phone call with my dear friend @lopezobrador, I expressed my congratulations on the recent election victory. I thanked him for his constant support to #Cuba and reaffirmed the willingness to continue deepening the historic bilateral relations with the next president of #Mexico, Diaz-Canel wrote on his X profile.

During the term of President Lopez Obrador, relations between Cuba and Mexico have been characterized by their warmth and have strengthened in the most diverse areas of cooperation.

On June 3, President Diaz-Canel also spoke by telephone with Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, whom he congratulated on her victory in the federal elections.

As President Lopez Obrador’s successor, Sheinbaum confirmed the willingness to move forward in areas of mutual interest for bilateral relations. “Mexico and Cuba are sister nations united by bonds of cooperation, solidarity, and shared history.”

With an extraordinary endorsement as a scientist and politician, Sheinbaum, who will take office on October 1, expressed her responsibility to President Lopez Obrador’s legacy and promised the people of Mexico to govern with humility and responsibility.

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Marseille, France, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) A business delegation from the Cuban province of Cienfuegos presented today at the Chamber of Commerce of Marseille a dozen agricultural products with chances of reaching the French market for their quality, flavor and freshness.

Commercial authorities and representatives of several importing companies from the southern Mediterranean city attended the event, who recognized the quality of fruits and tubers in display, and showed willingness to hold talks with a view to eventual future business.

Mango, mamey, guava, pineapple, Persian lime, cucumber, hot bell pepper, sweet potato, turmeric and ginger were among the products promoted, including tastings of some of them.

As a result of the meeting, the trip of a trade mission from Marseille to the Havana International Fair FIHAV-2024, to be held in early November, will continue the rapprochement.

It has been a very profitable visit, due to the issues addressed and the reception of the products, the deputy director of the Agroindustrial Company Cítricos Arimao, Isce Tellería, one of the members of the delegation from Cienfuegos, told Prensa Latina. He was accompanied here by the Cuban ambassador, Otto Vaillant, and the economic and commercial adviser Danae de Paz. Tellería said that charcoal, mango and hot bell pepper are already present in the French market, in small format, so the aspiration is to diversify the offer.

We see favorable prospects for expanding our trade relations on the French soil, where we will continue the presentation this week in Paris, said the official, who made the trip with the director of Foreign Trade, Foreign Investment and Cooperation of Cienfuegos, Yanet Gonzalez, and the Director of Science and Development of the Delegation of Agriculture, Liliana Mederos.

For her part, de Paz highlighted the chances of promoting bilateral cooperation in this sector and the quality of the products, grown in an ecological environment.

Ambassador Vaillant thanked the Marseille Chamber of Commerce, the oldest of its kind in the world (XVI century), and the opportunity to promote Cuban products and events that will take place in this Caribbean nation, particularly FIHAV-2024 and the international fair of Cienfuegos ExpoSur-2024.

We hope that new and good export opportunities for fruits and other Cuban agricultural products will come out of this visit, he stressed.

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Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and his Brazilian counterpart, Mario Vieria, met here on Monday on the sidelines of the Brics Plus Ministerial Council.

During the meeting, both foreign ministers agreed on the positive state of bilateral relations, and shared criteria in relation to the international agenda and the Latin American and Caribbean region.

The head of Cuban diplomacy, on behalf of the Cuban people and Government, expressed solidarity and support for the situation affecting the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, after heavy rains and floods devastated the territory since late April, leaving more than 100 people dead and missing.

Rodríguez thanked Brazil for its rejection of Cuba’s inclusion in the spurious list of state sponsors of terrorism, orchestrated by the United States.

Prior to this meeting, in the morning, the Cuban foreign minister met with his counterparts from Belarus, Sergey Aleinik, and Egypt, Sameh Shoukry, with whom he also reviewed the development of bilateral ties.

Rodriguez acknowledged Minsk’s support for Havana in condemning the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by Washington on Cuba for more than six decades, with an extensive tightening in recent years.

Meanwhile, together with the main representative of Egyptian diplomacy, they agreed on the need to end Israel’s escalation against the Palestinian people in Gaza, and the support for the recognition of Palestine as a State of the United Nations.

The Cuban foreign minister arrived in Nizhny Novgorod on Monday to participate in the meeting of the Brics Plus Ministerial Council, at the invitation of his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.

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