The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro Ruz, toured the headquarters of the French Senate, at the invitation of President of the National Assembly of France Claude Bartolone.

More than 40 new foreign investment projects in Cuba are in advanced negotiations, while the Cuban government approved a million dollar business with Unilever, one of the world's leading producers of toiletries and household.

The Brazilian Odebrecht Infrastructure Works Company will increase operations in Cuba after receiving authorization from local authorities to become a user of the Special Development Zone in the western Mariel Bay area, plus another two contracts in the sugar and civil aeronautical sectors.

The capital of Artemisa province has three State Agricultural Markets (MAE), two of them in downtown and one at Eduardo Garcia Lavandero people council . Last Wednesday they were offering pineapple, cassava and banana, plantain, black beans, rice and peas.

Artemisa Poultry Company , belonging to the Poultry Division of Livestock Business Group overfulfilled egg production scheduled until January 22, in 318,617 eggs.

Paris - Cuba''s President, Raul Castro, was received today with an official ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in the French capital, at the beginning of a two-day state visit to this country.