Cuban First Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez arrived in Moscow yesterday en route to Beijing, and was received by Valentina Matvienko, President of the Russian Federation Council; Dimitri Rogozin, government vice president and co-president of the Russia-Cuba Intergovernmental Commission; as well as Ivan Mielnikov, first vice president of the Duma.

Although the Tropical Storm Erika left Guantanamo residents with the desire of abundant rainfall, at least it was ratified the people´s organization and discipline upon the instructions of the Civil Defense Council in the province to preserve human lives and resources from the possible effects of this natural phenomenon.

Cuba will take part at the Fourth World Conference of Parliament Presidents, call by the Inter-parliamentary Union at United Nations in New York, August 31 to September 2nd focusing on the participation of parliaments in the implementation of new sustainable development goals.

Construction works planned for Pope Francis'' visit to Cuba show today significant progress in the capital and the eastern province of Holguin, all in consonance with the experience of the two previous Pope visits.

Deputy Foreign Minister, Nguyen Quoc Dung, described today as very positive the restoration of Cuba-US relations, whose most recent chapter was the reopening of the embassy in Havana.