The evolution of world trade and the prospects for integration were the focus of Tuesday's debates at the 42nd Cycle of Conferences on World Economy of the Center for Research on the World Economy (CIEM).

The President of the National Assembly of People's Power, Esteban Lazo Hernández, convened the Fourth Ordinary Session of this body, during its Tenth Legislature, which will begin at 9:00 a.m. on December 18 of this year at the Havana Convention Palace.

Tribute was paid to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz this Monday at the Santa Ifigenia Patrimonial Cemetery, in the city of Santiago de Cuba, on the eighth anniversary of his death.

The Cuban authorities are targeting reduced agricultural tariffs to stimulate the economy, a press report said.