HAVANA, Cuba, May 30 (ACN) In the context of the 77th World Health Assembly, held in Geneva, Switzerland, Cuba’s Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal, and Russia’s deputy minister of the sector, Oleg Salagay, evaluated the prospects for increasing cooperation in the field of health care.
The delegations also reviewed the progress of current agreements signed between both countries.
The conference has provided Cuba with an opportunity to meet with representatives of governments and international organizations with a view to boosting health care-related cooperation.
Speaking at the Assembly on Tuesday, Mr. Portal stressed that only by working together can a future be forged where the right to health care is accessible to all.
Havana, May 31 (ACN) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez condemned the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza; he said Palestinians are being massacred, dying from hunger and diseases.
In nearly eight months, some 36 thousand 224 people have been murdered and more than 81 thousand have been wounded, the minister said. Nearly 70 percent of the dead have been women and children, he note.
The Cuban government official also recalled that Israel also blocks access to basic and urgent healthcare services.
Since the escalation of violence, Cuba called for a ceasefire and the entrance of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry has reiterated its support of a clean, fair and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the grounds of the setting up of two states, which allows the Palestinian people to enjoy their right to self-determination, the creation of a sovereign and independent Palestinian state within the borders set up before 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital city.
Rome, Jun 1 (Prensa Latina) On an event arranged by MediCuba Europe and the Naional Association of Italy-Cuba Friendship (ANAIC), participants praise Cuba’s example of global collaboration in sectors such as health, given the high quality of its healthcare system; noting that solidarity with its people must be increased.
ANAIC’s Chair Marco Papacci highlighted that since the triumph of the Revolution, Cuba has sent some 600,000 doctors to 165 countries.
Enzo Pescatori, deputy chair of ANAIC and executive member of MediCuba Europe conducted the encounter, held at the venues of the Italian General Confederation of Labor (CGIL), which was attended by the Cuban Ambassadors to Italy and Switzerland, Mirta Granda and Mayra Ruiz, respectively.
On the event, there were present Franco Cavalli, president of Medicuba Europe, as well as Diana Agistinello, secretary of the CGIL in Rome and the Lazio region, journalist and writer Luciana Castellina, prominent Italian physician Maurizio Bonati and Dr. Luis Enrique Perez, head of Cuba’s health mission in Italy.
Granda acknowledged in the initial part of the activity that, just as her country practices solidarity, “it has received the generous and supportive back up of many friends in the world, who have not hesitated to be on the right side” as is the case of the members of both ANAIC and MediCuba Europe.
The diplomat attached greater importance to backing up the Cuban healthcare system, which is even more necessary at a time of the post Covid-19 world crisis, and a tightening of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade by President Donald Trump, maintained by the Biden Administration.
Cuban and Palestinan Flags, May 2024 | Photo: X/ @GBTCP3MZLLO
Published 29 May 2024
Miguel Diaz-Cannel called this aggression an act of barbarism and a crime against humanity, “Israel Burned People Alive in Rafah, Gaza,” the president said in X.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned on Tuesday the bombing by the Israeli occupier of the tents of the displaced in the city of Rafah.
Miguel Diaz-Cannel called this aggression an act of barbarism and a crime against humanity, “Israel Burned People Alive in Rafah, Gaza,” the president said in X.
Also in a post on his Telegram channel, the Cuban president called on the countries of the world to stop the ongoing massacre committed by the occupier against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
In turn, the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, wrote in his X account: We condemn the criminal attack by Israeli forces on a displaced person camp in Rafah, in an act that violates international humanitarian law.
He added that this atrocious massacre of dozens of refugees shows impunity with which Israel perpetuates its genocide against the Palestinian people.
It should be remembered that after the bombing of the refugee camp this Sunday, Israel has not stopped its offensive despite international rejection.
Justice must go hand in hand with human rights, both in punitive and preventive actions, Peña and Saab pointed out.
On Thursday, the Attorneys General of Cuba and Venezuela highlighted the strong state of relations between their institutions and the programs they are implementing.
During her visit to the Bolivarian nation, Cuba’s Attorney General Yamila Peña held a meeting with her Venezuelan counterpart, Tarek William Saab, to review the progress on the commitments made in an agreement signed in 2018.
Earlier, Peña and Saab visited the National Pantheon to pay tribute to the father of the Venezuelan nation, the liberator Simon Bolivar. The Cuban official also visited Venezuela’s National School of Prosecutors.
At the meeting, Saab presented the features of the program called “The Public Ministry Goes to Your Community,” which takes place in the main squares of each Venezuelan state.
“When Saab was Ombudsman, he used to visit Havana frequently. Since then, there has been an exchange of experiences and insights about law,” the Cuban Attorney General recalled.
“As leaders of processes with high responsibility and complexity, we hope this will yield results in our daily work as there are many common points,” she said, emphasizing that the Socialist state is what ensures social justice.
“At the Cuban Attorney General’s office, it is our duty to address problems and evaluate solutions. We are responsible for overseeing criminal investigations and the exercise of criminal prosecution. For us, interaction with citizens and the protection of all sectors of society is very important,” Peña stressed.
The attorneys general of both countries agreed that justice must go hand in hand with human rights, both in punitive and preventive actions.
Washington, May 31 (Prensa Latina) Prensa Latina and Radio Miami Today, based in the United States, signed a collaboration agreement on Friday, in the context of the 65th anniversary of the Cuban news agency, founded by Fidel Castro on June 16, 1959.
The document was penned in the city of Miami by Prensa Latina First Vice President Luisa María González and Radio Miami Today General Director Max Lesnik.
González said that for the media outlet that she represents, “it is essential to create alliances at this time when the media war is so strong internationally, and when large media corporations try to silence the voice of smaller communication projects.”
She added that for more than six decades of Prensa Latina’s work, “we have had fluid relationships with many institutions,” as an example she mentioned her participation in the Hispanic American Press Congress in New York on Friday and Saturday.
González also mentioned the project developed with the Associated Press (AP), with which “we have had agreements for a long time, such as one to digitize Prensa Latina’s photo archive.”
She pointed out that her news agency has the largest photographic heritage in Cuba and one of the largest in Latin America. “An archive about the first years of the Cuban Revolution.”
She commented that it is possible to dialogue and have collaboration always based on respect.
Lesnik, in turn, said, “We here follow the example of Prensa Latina and therefore we are heirs of that journalistic tradition that has been maintained over the years, despite the hardships.”
“The reality is that Prensa Latina (its name says it all) is the voice of the Americas,” he stressed.
The leadership of the news agency traveled to the United States as part of a program to celebrate the anniversary of Prensa Latina, founded by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, a few months after the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959.
Also in Miami, González received, on behalf of the news agency, a plaque of recognition from the José Martí USA Cultural Association.
Her agenda also consists of meetings with media representatives and the inauguration of the photographic collection “65 Years at the Service of Truth,” which contains images captured by photojournalists and correspondents of Prensa Latina throughout these years.
As González stated, they will remain faithful to the founding commitment to report objectively and professionally, something Prensa Latina’s 35 correspondents around the world currently do.
Havana, May 31 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel expressed his confidence in the Caribbean nation’s capacity to face and overcome the complex situation it is going through.
“If in difficult times Cuba has responded to great challenges, what can it not do when the context is less adverse,” the president said in his account on social network X.
Such conviction, Díaz-Canel noted on the platform, was ratified during the visits that the country’s top leadership makes weekly to municipalities to evaluate good work experiences and learn about the status of economic and social programs in the territory.
This week, accompanied by the Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales, the president visited the municipalities of Santa Cruz del Norte (Mayabeque), Jagüey Grande (Matanzas), Yaguajay (Sancti Spíritus), and Sagua la Grande (Villa Clara).
Colombo, May 29 (Prensa Latina) The Federation of National Organizations (FNO) of Sri Lanka sent a letter to the United States Ambassador to this country, Julie Chung, on Wednesday demanding Cuba’s removal from allegedly states-sponsor-of-terrorism (SSOT) list.
Every time the United States Department of State adds a country to that list, it is not with noble intentions but to lead to its destruction, says the letter signed by FNO Director Gunadasa Amarasekara and published on the Lankaleader website.
The Federation pointed out that Washington is playing the role of the world’s policeman to destroy Cuba in retaliation for being an example of government to the United States in the interest of the people.
It also considered that the unjust designation by the White House on Cuba also shows the fear of the US elite class that Cuba will become a banner of struggle for the economically, socially, and politically oppressed US people.
The Federation of National Organizations recalled Chung that Cuba’s greatest strength to stand firm is international solidarity.
It also stressed that it would always support Cuba’s claim until it is finally removed from that arbitrary list.
Havana, May 29 (ACN) The Cuba-related measures recently announced by the US government are limited, restrictive and do not affect the main core of the US blockade against our country, or other US high-pressure policy sanctions, said Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel.
On his X account, the Cuban head of state wrote that the recently announced US moves do not eliminate or change the coercive measures affecting Cuban economy and public services, which have a hard impact on the wellbeing of the Cuban people.
The fact that such measures aim at a segment of the people reveals the historic intention to break the unity of Cubans, said Diaz-Canel.
He also said that the US concern on the development of the Cuban non-state sector is not genuine policy, which is in tune with a subversive design marked by well-known strategies like the manipulation and use of the non-state sector as a potential agent for change in the country.
As far as the strengthened US blockade continues to affect the Cuban people, the United States will not be able to prevent the world condemnation against that genocide using no bombs but aimed at devastating the admirable resistance of Cuba, Diaz-Canel noted.
The Cuban government will continue to promote the increasing integration of all local economic actors, which make up the milestone for the development of the country and the wellbeing of all Cubans.
On Tuesday, May 28, the US government announced a group of measures which, according to the release by the US Office for Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), aim to favor the private sector in Cuba.
HAVANA, Cuba, May 28 (ACN) During his official visit to Antigua and Barbuda, Cuban VP Salvador Valdés Mesa met with Gaston Alphonso Browne, Prime Minister of that Caribbean nation.
During the meeting, in which Valdés Mesa presented his host with a letter of invitation to visit Cuba and thanked him for Antigua and Barbuda’s continued opposition to the U.S. blockade, both leaders talked about the current state of bilateral relations and agreed to keep strengthening the thirty-year-old historic ties of friendship, solidarity and cooperation between the two countries.
On his end, Browne expressed his gratitude to Cuba for participating in the IV Conference of Small Island Developing States, as well as for the cooperation given to Antigua and Barbuda in terms of health care and human resource training.
