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Cuba, Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union

Cuba, Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union, closer and closer

Díaz-Canel’s participation in the Supreme Council of the Eurasian Economic Union and the talks with Putin will consolidate the island’s relations with the Russian Federation

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may 8, 2024 08:05:16

Photo: Alejandro Azcuy 

Moscow.— “It will be the first time that President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez personally attends the Supreme Council of the Eurasian Union, but before that, he always participated via videoconference or sent a video message,” Russian presidential advisor Yuri Ushakov told reporters on Monday.
Referring to the presence of the Cuban head of state in this city, Ushakov recalled that Cuba is an observer state in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) since 2020.
“I would like to note, especially – he emphasized – that Cuba is the only partner of the EEU outside the region with a similar status.”
Ushakov also reported that President Putin would hold a meeting with his Caribbean counterpart, and that the two would assess the two countries’ ties in all spheres, including politics, diplomacy and economic cooperation. “It will be an important conversation,” Vladimir Putin’s advisor said, according to a report by Sputnik.
RUSSIA AND CUBA: STRATEGIC RELATIONS
Economic-commercial relations between Cuba and Russia are strategic, qualify both governments.

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Tourism Economic Engine

One million international visitors arrived in Cuba

One million international visitors arrived in Cuba

This result is reached a few days before the start of the 42nd International Tourism Fair (FITCuba 2024), from May 1 to 5 in Jardines del Rey, dedicated to Latin America and the Caribbean and nautical products

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april 29, 2024 08:04:47

Cuba is the owner of a wonderful communion of goodness that, for the tourist activity, is unparalleled. Photo: Juvenal Balán

Cuba reached, this April 26, the figure of one million international visitors received, informed Juan Carlos García Granda, head of the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur), in his account in X.
This result, he said, was achieved a few days before the start of the 42nd International Tourism Fair (fitCuba 2024), from May 1 to 5, in Jardines del Rey, dedicated to Latin America and the Caribbean and nautical products.
Previously, the National Bureau of Statistics and Information highlighted that, at the end of March, 809,238 visitors had arrived, mostly from Canada, as the first issuer, in addition to the Cuban community abroad, Russia, the United States, Germany, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Spain and Argentina.
Cuba aims to surpass three million visitors in 2024, a year that, according to García Granda, will see a recovery compared to 2023, and for which the conditions are in place.
On the other hand, this Monday will take place the seminar “Enhancing tourism development through innovation in community tourism”, prior to the 69th meeting of the UN Regional Commission on Tourism for the Americas, to be held on April 30.

Tourism Economic Engine

One million international visitors arrived in Cuba

This result is reached a few days before the start of the 42nd International Tourism Fair (FITCuba 2024), from May 1 to 5 in Jardines del Rey, dedicated to Latin America and the Caribbean and nautical products

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

april 29, 2024 08:04:47

Cuba is the owner of a wonderful communion of goodness that, for the tourist activity, is unparalleled. Photo: Juvenal Balán

Cuba reached, this April 26, the figure of one million international visitors received, informed Juan Carlos García Granda, head of the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur), in his account in X.
This result, he said, was achieved a few days before the start of the 42nd International Tourism Fair (fitCuba 2024), from May 1 to 5, in Jardines del Rey, dedicated to Latin America and the Caribbean and nautical products.
Previously, the National Bureau of Statistics and Information highlighted that, at the end of March, 809,238 visitors had arrived, mostly from Canada, as the first issuer, in addition to the Cuban community abroad, Russia, the United States, Germany, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Spain and Argentina.
Cuba aims to surpass three million visitors in 2024, a year that, according to García Granda, will see a recovery compared to 2023, and for which the conditions are in place.
On the other hand, this Monday will take place the seminar “Enhancing tourism development through innovation in community tourism”, prior to the 69th meeting of the UN Regional Commission on Tourism for the Americas, to be held on April 30.

SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA

Cuba will continue to raise the banners of peace, solidarity and cooperation with peoples

Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the closing ceremony of the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and against imperialism, at the Palace of Conventions, on May 2, 2024, “Year 66 of the Revolution”.

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may 3, 2024 08:05:08

Díaz-Canel affirmed that Cuba continues to be a reference and a meeting place for those who aspire to a better world. Photo: Dunia Álvarez

(Shorthand Versions – Presidency of the Republic)
Dear friends, dear friends, defenders of international solidarity;
Sisters and brothers of the Cuban Revolution:
To all of you we would like to thank you for being here in Cuba.  We thank you for your participation in the Meeting, in which we share the same sentiment and the same commitment: that of human solidarity, which is also for you with your expressions, solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and with the struggle of the peoples for their true emancipation.
To celebrate International Workers’ Day, as we did yesterday in Cuba, together with representatives of the working class and solidarity movements and friends of Cuba is a great honor and a gesture of courage that our heroic people thanks you all for.
It is also an honor for the Cuban people the significant presence and participation of young people in the May Day International Brigade and in the trade union delegations that visit us (Applause).
In this Meeting, which has been held as part of the activities to commemorate International Workers’ Day, more than 1,000 delegates have participated, and 70% of them are coming to Cuba for the first time. This means that Cuba continues to be a point of reference and a meeting place for those of us who aspire to a better world; this means that the family of solidarity is also growing; and this means that in the new generations the feeling of solidarity is also germinating (Applause).
These have been days of intense days.  We recently held two days of wide-ranging debate and analysis on the exclusionary and unjust International Economic Order and also on the proposals for a much-needed New International Economic Order.
Yesterday, friends and organizations in solidarity with Cuba from Canada, Uruguay, the United States, Argentina and Ecuador were also honored and awarded. To all of them we reiterate our congratulations and our gratitude.
We also salute the work of the Latin American and Caribbean Continental Network of Solidarity with Cuba and just causes (Applause); the approval of more than 100 resolutions against the blockade in the United States; the 40th anniversary of an uninterrupted friendship with the Australian friends of solidarity, who will visit us in December of this year; and also the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Che Guevara brigade, present here (Applause).

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