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The meeting will be attended by some 250 delegates from Cuba and Latin American and European countries.

The famous choreographer and Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso will receive the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts from the Spanish Council of Ministers, which every year awards personalities or entities that contribute to the promotion and spreading of art, culture and artistic heritage.

Cuba requested on Tuesday that the issue of the current world food crisis be included in the agenda of the Fifth Latin America-Caribbean-European Union Summit, whose stage at the level of experts began yesterday in Lima, Peru.

The director of U.S Project Censored, Peter Philips, is in Cuba attending a three-day conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the murder in Havana of Ecuadorian Journalist Carlos Bastidas and Freedom of the Press Day, an event called by UNESCO.

Advisory Minister of Cuban embassy to France Leyde Rodriguez was in charge of two interventions during the third International Encounter on Nuclear Biological and Chemical Disarmament, to conclude Sunday in Saintes, Poitou-Charentes.

The Cuban child theater company "La Colmenita" ended its tour of Turkey with sound success among the public.

The Dutch Grand Master (GM) and European champion, Sergei Tiviakov, is one of the favorite players in the Elite Group of the chess Tournament José Raúl Capablanca In Memoriam, underway in Havana.

Spanish media outlets are denouncing new actions undertaken by the United States to obstruct the improvement of relations between Cuba and Europe.

The theater company La Colmenita finished their participation on the fourth edition of the International Festival of Children’s Theater in this capital city, even though their tour around the country lasted until May 4.

Maestro Fernando Alonso, one of the most relevant figures in the history of Cuban ballet, received on Wednesday the Benois Dance Prize at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, for his artistic career.

Economic and trade relations between Cuba and Belarus are increasing, said on Tuesday the Byelorussian ambassador in Havana, Igar I. Paluyan.

The Portuguese tour operator TerraCuba signed agreements with the Caribbean Island to operate tourist trips to Cuba in conjunction with the company HAVANATUR.

The World Organization of Industrial Property (WOIP) recognized Cuba’s Environmental Stamp in March of this year subsequent to an application by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA). With this acknowledgement, the island has made another vital step toward gaining preference for its products in increasingly competitive international trade.

Alicia Alonso still maintains her graceful way of talking and the elegant movement of her hands and head. Sixty years as director of the Cuban National Ballet Company, to be marked in October, have perhaps made her body less flexible, but her enthusiasm for ballet -the art discipline through which she best expresses herself- remains the same.

He will hold official meetings with ministers Ibero-American Secretary-General Enrique Iglesias is visiting Cuba to participate in the 28th FITCUBA 2008 International Tourism Fair.