DECLARATION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF PEOPLE’S POWER OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA. In the aftermath of a campaign orchestrated essentially by powerful European media companies, which have viciously attacked Cuba, and following a sullied debate, the European Parliament has just passed a condemnation resolution against our country manipulating sentiments, distorting facts, deceiving people and obscuring reality

SPEECH DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY MR. BRUNO RODRIGUEZ PARRILLA, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, AT THE HIGH LEVEL SEGMENT OF THE THIRTEENTH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL. GENEVA, MARCH 3, 2010

Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Contrary to the spirit of cooperation and understanding demonstrated by the Cuban side, once the migration talks were over, the U.S. delegation convened dozens of its mercenaries, even transporting them to the residence of the chief of the U.S. Interests Section, once again demonstrating that its priorities are more connected to supporting the counterrevolution and the promotion of subversion to overthrow the Cuban Revolution than to creating a conducive climate for a real solution to bilateral problems Press Release Issued by the Cuban Delegation to the Migration Talks with the United States The meeting took place in an atmosphere of respect. Both delegations evaluated the evolution of the migration accords in force between the two countries. They also discussed some of the aspects contained in the new draft migration accord submitted by Cuba during the round of talks held on July, 2009, in New York, aimed at ensuring a legal, safe and orderly migration between the two countries and a more effective cooperation to combat illegal alien smuggling.

Cuban Doctors, Field Hospital in Chile Chile's Public Health Minister Alvaro Erazo thanked the arrival of a team of Cuban doctors together with a fully equipped field hospital to help in emergency care of victims of last Saturday powerful earthquake

UN Chief in Haiti Praises Cuban Doctors Work Edmond Mulet, head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) described as extraordinary the work of Cuban doctors in that Caribbean country hit by an earthquake last January 12        Comprehensive Program for Haiti Presented in Geneva        The member states of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (ALBA) and the Haitian Government have submitted to the OMS in Geneva a comprehensive program for reconstructing the health system of that Caribbean nation

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Significant Growth of Tourism in Cuba despite the Crisis The growth in visitors to Cuba in 2009 compared with the previous year, in times of a sharp drop in tourism in the Caribbean caused by the impact of the global crisis and its relationship with the tide of unemployment in countries traditionally tourism emitters to the region was highlighted yesterday by Rafael Romeu, from the International Monetary Fund, at one of the plenary sessions of the 12th International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems The terrorist attack on La Coubre: Washington: still Silent 50 Years Later In spite of Cuba’s repeated denunciations about the responsibility of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the blowing up, on March 4, 1960, of the French ship La Coubre in Havana harbour, the government of the United States, fifty years later, continues to conceal the documents in its archives More...

Victor goes to Washington A Cuban-American musician traveled to Washington, D.C., this weekend for the screening of a documentary that traces his 2009 return to Cuba after 43 years. The documentary is called one among thousands. Cuba Elected Vice-President of UN Decolonization Committee Cuba was elected this Friday, unanimously, to hold a vice presidency of the Special Committee on the United Nations Organization More...

Trial against Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles Postponed Once More The decision of judge Kathleen Cardone of postponing once again the trial against terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and to set May 20 as the day for the hearing where the date will be determined has been described as the height of arrogance. Postponed three times, the trial had been scheduled for March 1st. More...

Cuban Doctors for New Challenges in Venezuela Cuban Vice Minister of Health Joaquin Garcia assures on Thursday that one of the main challenges of the Cuban mission in Venezuela is to continue incorporating the state health programs to the primary assistance network Mission Inside the Neighborhood More...

Cuban 5 Case Must Be Retaken, Cuba States        Cuba requested on Wednesday at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to retake the case of the Cuban Five, the detention of which in the United States was termed arbitrary in this capital Cuban Youngsters to Climb the Turquino Peak in Solidarity with The Five Journalists and students from Havana’s Institute of International Relations began a tour of the Sierra Maestra Mountains on Wednesday, which will include the ascent of the Turquino Peak, in solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly incarcerated in the United States More...

Resolution against US Blockade of Cuba Circulates in the United Nations A declaration rejecting the almost 50-year-old US economic blockade of Cuba, which was recently approved in the Summit for Unity of Latin America and the Caribbean held in Mexico, began to circulate in the United Nations as an official document More...