Angola's and Cuba's Directors of the commercial chambers examined on Thursday common interests and potential businesses in order to broaden and diversify commercial exchange and bolster reciprocal investments. Due to Covid-19, the forum was held by videoconference with the participation of the president of the board of directors of Angola's Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIA), Vicente Soares; and the head of the homologous institution in Cuba, Antonio Luis Carricarte.

The Ambassador of Cuba in Fiji, Carlos Manuel Rojas Lago participated in a virtual working session convened by the Secretariat of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to exchange with the Dialogue Partners, role held by the Caribbean country, on the main actions of that Organization and its Members in the face of the impact of the COVID19 pandemic.

Cuba and the United Nations System (UNS) signed Thursday the United Nations Framework for Cooperation for Sustainable Development, which will guide the support of the different agencies, funds and programs over the next four years. Rodrigo Malmierca, head of the Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Ministry and Consuelo Vidal, Resident Coordinator of the UNS in Cuba, signed the agreement in the protocol rooms of this institution.

Canberra, 10 August, 2020.- The fundraising campaign promoted by the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (ACFS) concluded, and Cuba received a cash donation of 58,000 Australian dollars to support its efforts in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.