Havana - The new Constitution of the Republic of Cuba was proclaimed in Havana on Wednesday in a solemn session of Parliament, after a speech pronounced by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Raul Castro.

Havana - Cuba's Parliament is within hours to proclaim in solemn session the island''s new Constitution, which was ratified by the people in a referendum last February 24 by 7 million Cubans, 86,5 per cent of the vote.

Cuba proclaimed this April 10 its new Constitution at an extraordinary session of the National Assembly of People Power marked by a great symbolism by the remembrance of the first Magna Carta of the Republic in Arms, whose 150th anniversary is celebrated today.

Havana - Cuba is preparing to live an intense day just hours before the proclamation of its new Constitution Wednesday, in a solemn session that will be accompanied by patriotic acts with the participation of diverse sectors of society.

Havana - Cuba''s President Miguel Diaz-Canel recalled in Havana on Wednesday the proclamation in Guaimaro, Camagüey, of the first Constitution of the Republic in Arms in 1869, and how the independentists of that time demanded respect for the law.

The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, received this Monday morning the Secretary General of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO), Roque Silva Samuel, who is visiting Cuba at the head of a delegation of his Party.