Cuba's Permanent Representative to the UN, Pedro Luis Pedroso.The Cuban government reiterated Wednesday its support for nuclear disarmament efforts promoted by the United Nations, while countries like the United States and its allies continue to expand their arsenals of these weapons.

Prominent journalist Marta Rojas died.On Twitter, the President wrote: “Marta Rojas, a woman of Letters and Revolution, exceptional witness and storyteller, since 'The Moncada Trial,' has gone. The heroine of Labor, she was a journalist and writer until her last breath. Her transcendental work is the memory of the nation.”