The Cuban regime reaffirmed Indira Nápoles Coello as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the island to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Cameroon.
The Council of State of Cuba made the appointment through the , issued on September 7 in Havana, and which was published this Tuesday in the .
The agreement was signed by Juan Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of the National Assembly of People's Power, exercising the powers conferred by Article 122, subsection o) of the Cuban Constitution, and at the proposal of the President of the Republic.
The text expressly states that Nápoles Coello, already accredited to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, "shall also be accredited as concurrent to the Republic of Cameroon."
The fulfillment of the agreement is in the hands of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla, who is also being informed along with the Secretary of the Council of Ministers and the State and Government Personnel Directorate.
Nápoles Coello holds a degree in Law and has a diplomatic background at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she served as an attaché from 2011 to 2014 in the Latin America and Caribbean Division, and later as a consular counselor in Brasília.
In March 2025, she was already serving as a Cuban diplomat in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, where she participated in official activities during the visit of Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz.
Concurrent accreditation is a common practice of Cuban diplomacy in Africa, where a single embassy serves multiple countries from a main location.
Cuba has maintained diplomatic relations with the Democratic Republic of the Congo since April 15, 1974, with a break between 1977 and 1979, and reopened its mission in Kinshasa in 1998.
Gaceta No. 79 of 2026 simultaneously published three other agreements from the Council of State related to diplomatic appointments: the for France, the for the United Arab Emirates, and the for Guatemala, indicating a movement towards the renewal of the Cuban diplomatic corps in various regions of the world.
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