Articles of Miguel Diaz Canel

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Díaz-Canel meets with Cuban scientists working on COVID-19 candidate vaccines

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The President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, recently held a discussion with a group of scientists working on the development of COVID-19 candidate vaccines, to contain the dangerous illness that has caused the deaths of more than 766,000 persons around the world, 88 in our nation.

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Communist Party of Russia honors Cuban leaders

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The Communist Party of the Russian Federation awarded commemorative medals on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Fascism to the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raul Castro; President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel; Second Secretary José Ramón Machado; President of the National Assembly, Esteban Lazo, and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz.

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Díaz-Canel: You took the light of hope, affection and solidarity on these missions

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“…You took the light of hope, affection and solidarity on these missions,” stated the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, addressing health professionals who, as part of the Henry Reeve Contingent, joined the COVID-19 battle in the Italian city of Turin and in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, during a meeting July 29, held at the La Pradera International Health Center to welcome them home, in which Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz also participated, among other national authorities.

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Anti-imperialist unity is the tactic and strategy of victory

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Remarks by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, via videoconference, at the Meeting of Leaders, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Sao Paulo Forum’s founding, July 28, 2020, Year 62 of the Revolution. “Brothers and sisters of the political forces following this videoconference with interest.

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Rigorous work must continue in COVID-19 recovery period

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Cuba awoke yesterday, July 20, with the news that many of us have waited four months to hear. Of the 2,914 PCR test samples processed the previous day, none were positive for SARS-COV-2, while no patients in serious or critical condition were reported, nor a single death. Within this encouraging context, most of the country’s territories – except Havana and Mayabeque – began the transition to the third phase of the first stage of recovery.

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President Díaz-Canel sends letter to UN Secretary-General

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Seventy-five years after the member states of this organization signed the United Nations Charter, strict adherence to its purposes and principles, to international law and the preservation of multilateralism are more important than ever. “The moment and common sense demand that the international community set aside political differences and seek joint solutions to global problems through international cooperation”

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Cuba’s response

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The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and Jorge Núñez Jover, dean of the University of Havana’s Science, Technology and Society department, have published an article entitled Gestión gubernamental y ciencia cubana en el enfrentamiento a la Covid-19 (Government management and Cuban science in confronting COVID-19) in the Cuban Academy of Sciences’ journal Anales.

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We will recover and triumph

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Three months after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Cuba, as the recovery phase is about to begin, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez insisted that we must “continue to work responsibly, convinced that we can control the pandemic and avoid new outbreaks.” Speaking June 11, on the Mesa Redonda television program, to present plans for the first stage of post-COVID-19 recovery period.

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ALBA-TCP faces new challenge

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The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, will participate today in the High-Level Conference on Economy, Finance and Trade within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, convened by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP). The online gathering, promoted by the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros.

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Raul leads Political Bureau meeting to analyze proposals for post-COVID-19 recovery period

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Chaired by its First Secretary, Army General Raul Castro Ruz, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee met yesterday, June 9, to analyze proposals regarding the post-COVID-19 recovery period in the country, including a set of measures to be implemented in the three phases that the first stage of this gradual process includes. This issue will also be examined today, Wednesday, in an extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers.