UN Secretary-General António Guterres (left) meets with Miguel Díaz Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, in Havana at the G77+China Summit Sept. 14, 2023. (UN Photo: Eskinder Debebe) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the leaders from
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met on Thursday Apr. 20, 2023 with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Havana. (twitter.com/BrunoRguezP) -DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Cuba Thursday meeting with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel. Lavrov also met with the Revolutionary leader Raul
Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-seventh session at UN headquarters in New York Sept. 21, 2022. (Photo by: UN Photo/Cia Pak) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS
Cuba’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Peñalver DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF Cuban First Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Peñalver is in Paris on a working visit to France for bilateral political consultations with Francois Delattre, general secretary of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. “Today, the
(credit: Photo by Gary Raynaldo) / ©Diplomatic Times / United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States announced it will increase its staff at its embassy in Havana, Cuba after years of operating with a skeleton crew that
Boeing 737-700WL OO-JAR ‘Enjoy’ of TUI fly Belgium (Credit: Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES TUI Fly Belgium inaugurated its Brussels-Havana flight on Christmas Eve, Cuba’s Foreign Ministry reported on its website. The flight is an addition to the airline’s scheduled return to
U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF The U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Thursday announced that the cargo ship HERMANN (Cuban-flagged, owned by Compania Navegacion Golfo SA) had been removed from Cuba sanctions lists. The OFAC also announced
Abdul Latif Nasir, a native of Morocco, has been held at U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba since May 2002 without charge. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – The Biden Department of Defense announced Monday that Abdul Latif Nasir has been
Amnesty International By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Amnesty International is calling on the Cuban government to stop repressing peaceful protesters. The human rights organization urged the Cuban government to guarantee the right to freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly. On 11 July
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) called for continued international support for the Cuban people as thousands protest against the government amid high prices and food shortages.