Havana, May 10 (Prensa Latina) Numan Kurtulmuş, speaker of the Grand National Assembly (Parliament) of Türkiye, toured the Fidel Castro Ruz Center in the capital, as part of his visit to Cuba.

The national television informed that during his tour of the institution dedicated to studying the life and work of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, the Turkish guest received a detailed explanation of the different stages of Fidel Castro’s life and revolutionary leadership.

Kurtulmuş approached the original podium the Commander-in-Chief repeatedly used. In statements to reporters, he described his visit to Cuba as fruitful.

The Turkish parliamentary speaker expressed, “We did not leave any point open, and we signed an agreement to create a joint working group between the two parliaments.

Before concluding the visit to the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, which he described as excellently designed, Kurtulmuş and his delegation enjoyed the performance of one of the National Ballet of Cuba’s vocational workshops.

Kurtulmuş and his companions made a two-day official visit to this country at the invitation of Cuban Parliament President Esteban Lazo.

They also met with Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and other high-ranking officials and conducted different activities.

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Havana, May 11 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel held a meeting with the director general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ONUDI), Gerd Müller, on a visit to the island, it was reported today.

The president said in his profile on X, that the day before he thanked the UN official for the support provided to Cuba in various cooperation projects to promote inclusive and sustainable industrial development in the country.

At the meeting, Diaz-Canel valued the high significance of the presence of Onudi’s top representative in the Antillean nation from the historical ties with this entity, amplified a report from Radio Rebelde.

The head of state highlighted the results of cooperation during the five-year period, which he described as successful, and also predicted favorable results for the coming five-year period.

He also acknowledged Onudi’s support to the Country’s Program being developed within the borders, aligned with industrial development, one of the strategic axes of the National Program for Economic and Social Development until 2030.

The Cuban president listed several areas that constitute priorities in the national industrial development: the one linked to food production, the energy sector and the transition to a new energy matrix based on renewable energy sources, the pharmaceutical industry, quoted the journalistic source. Onudi’s Country Programs promote industrial development.

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Pretoria, May 10 (Prensa Latina) South Africa and Cuba will celebrate 30 years of diplomatic relations on May 11, although the nations’ contacts date back to the early 1960s.

As a distinctive feature, those relations were established during a visit of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, to participate in the inauguration of newly-elected President Nelson Mandela in 1994.

Cuban Ambassador in Pretoria Enrique Orta Gonzalez stated that during these three decades, Cuba-South Africa relations have proven to be a successful example of South-South cooperation, with a direct effect on both peoples, deepening their mutual appreciation and respect.

In particular, the formalization of bilateral relations with Cuba was considered one of the first foreign policy acts by the democratic government of South Africa.

Orta Gonzalez told Prensa Latina that Cuba was the first country to receive diplomatic recognition from the Government of the African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party since then in South Africa.

However, contacts between the two nations began in 1961, when young South Africans from the anti-apartheid forces arrived in Cuba to receive medical care or professional training in medicine and science.

They were the first group of many to receive military and medical training in the decades that followed in Cuba.

The ambassador noted that hundreds of South African liberation movement cadres have been trained in Cuba and by the Cubans abroad.

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Havana, May 10 (Prensa Latina) Numan Kurtulmuş, speaker of the Grand National Assembly (Parliament) of Türkiye, toured the Fidel Castro Ruz Center in the capital, as part of his visit to Cuba.

The national television informed that during his tour of the institution dedicated to studying the life and work of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, the Turkish guest received a detailed explanation of the different stages of Fidel Castro’s life and revolutionary leadership.

Kurtulmuş approached the original podium the Commander-in-Chief repeatedly used. In statements to reporters, he described his visit to Cuba as fruitful.

The Turkish parliamentary speaker expressed, “We did not leave any point open, and we signed an agreement to create a joint working group between the two parliaments.

Before concluding the visit to the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, which he described as excellently designed, Kurtulmuş and his delegation enjoyed the performance of one of the National Ballet of Cuba’s vocational workshops.

Kurtulmuş and his companions made a two-day official visit to this country at the invitation of Cuban Parliament President Esteban Lazo.

They also met with Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and other high-ranking officials and conducted different activities.

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Moscow, May 8 (Prensa Latina) The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and the chairman of the United Russia party, Dmitry Medvedev, reviewed the progress of bilateral political relations here on Wednesday.

At the meeting, both leaders expressed satisfaction with the results achieved so far between the political organizations and the potentialities of their work for their development in the future.

Russia has a warm attitude towards Cuba and its leaders. “Although it is brutally cold outside, this cold does not affect our warm relations. Again, we warmly welcome you to the Russian Federation,” Medvedev, who is also the vice president of the Security Council, said.

He asked Díaz-Canel to “convey greetings and best wishes to Army General Raul Castro.” “We have spent a lot of time together in different places. The firmness with which he defends Cuba’s positions has always been a symbol for us of how to fight for his country’s independence.”

The former Russian president wished the Cuban head of State a successful stay in Russia and congratulated him on the 64th anniversary of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Cuba.

Before the meeting, on the second day of his visit to Russia, Díaz-Canel paid tribute to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, at the monument in his honor in Moscow’s Sokol district.

The Cuban president will also participate in the expanded meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council as an observer.

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Havana, May 6 (Prensa Latina) The 13th International Meeting of Psychology Students opened in this capital on Monday, following its official inauguration at the Main Lecture hall of the University of Havana.

More than 1,000 participants from 26 countries are participating in the event, which will end on May 10 and is taking place in the face-to-face and virtual modalities under the slogan “Connection, Science, Culture.”

Experts, professors, and students from Argentina, Barbados, Bahrain, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Ecuador are attending master lectures, commissions, and workshops, organizers told Prensa Latina.

other participants are professionals and representatives of related fields from El Salvador, Spain, the United States, France, Haiti, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Russia, Sweden, and Uruguay.

Over the week, presentations, community fairs, and cultural and recreational events will take place in several venues, including the Varona Building of the University of Havana, the Bertolt Brecht Cultural Center, and La Giraldilla Ranch.

The scientific program consists of debates on gender studies, psycho-gerontology, cyber-psychology, neuropsychology, environmental psychology, sports psychology, health and human welfare, couples and sexuality, social, community, and political psychology, education, subjectivity, and human development. Several doctors of Psychology, including Apollinaria Chursina (Russia), Clara Verney (Colombia), Francisco Herrera Triguero (Spain), Antonio Puente (the United States), and the Cubans Claudia Caballero, Jany Bárcenas, Patricia Arés, and Manuel Calvinño (Cuba), will give master lectures.

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