Havana, Cuba - Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla delivered a speech at the ceremony to re-open the Cuban embassy in Washington DC this morning.

Cuba News Agency now reproduces the full text of his speech:

To access to quality products, to crops and fields well catered for, say vegetables, root vegetables, citrus, fruits, beans, rice, among others depends largely on the work of the plant health. Prevent the introduction or spread of pests that may attack the productions of agriculture is one of the actions from the program's strategy and its compliance keep our fields healthy.

Our agriculture is committed to the introduction of agro-ecological practices aimed at reducing the use of pesticides and fertilizers as well as referred to in the Plant Protection Program as to the substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent the action of insects, mites, rodents, fungi, weeds, bacteria or other forms of animal or plant life harmful to public health and agriculture.

Havana, Cuba - After intense months of talks between the governments of Cuba and the United States, as had been announced, diplomatic relations between the two countries were re-established on Monday, at 12:01 midnight.

Coinciding with the date of the re-establishment of relations, at 10:33 a.m., the voice of a young officer of the Ceremony Unit of the General Staff of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces will be heard, and after the usual protocol the Cuban flag will be hoisted in the garden of the now embassy of the island to the United States, and the notes of the national anthem will be heard.

Cancer is a disease of the body but also the mind and spirit. A person who leaves folded against a diagnosis and fight tenaciously to overcome it, has a good chance of surviving. Some attitudes adopted to the news as anger, bitterness and resentment, or blame others, cower and just think about death, put the body in an atmosphere of tension and unsuitable to resist because all these negative attitudes tend to decrease the immune response, ie, the "defenders" calls the body. It is important to a positive diagnosis, learning to relax and think that will win all tests.

Sunday is a special day. It is a day of leisure and if this third Sunday of July Cubans distinguish it as Children's Day, then we add the attributes of revelry, multiplied joy, excitement, happiness to be protagonists of multiple exploits with ingenuity and imagination.

In Cuba, children are incalculable owners of every inch of our country, are free from side to side, enjoy the right to education, health, sports, openly offer their criteria and the only exercise as citizens a free country learn to love and respect the flag and savor the delights of freedom through the glorious notes of the Bayamo Hymn, sublime act qualifies their lives at the beginning of each student day.

Havana, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Communist Party will hold its Seventh Congress on April 16, 2016, a foundation date of the organization and the 55th anniversary of the Declaration of the Socialist Nature of the Revolution, Granma newspaper reported.
The event will assess the implementation of the agreements of the Fourth Congress and the First National Conference of the Party, specify the way to continue improving the Cuban economic and social model, and elect the members of the Central Committee, the daily added.