COUNCIL OF STATE OF CUBA

The 'Council of State' () of Cuba is a 31 member body of the government of Cuba, elected by the National Assembly of People’s Power. It has the authority to exercise most legislative power between sessions of the National Assembly of People’s Power, subject to its approval, and to call the National Assembly of People’s Power into session between its scheduled twice yearly sessions. The membership consists of a President, a Secretary, a First Vice President, five Vice Presidents, and 27 additional members. The President, the Secretary, the First Vice President, and the five Vice Presidents are also members of the Council of Ministers.

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Council of State members

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Council of State members

As elected by the National Assembly in 2003

'Position'	'Member'
President of Cuba	Fidel Castro
First Vice President/Acting President	Raúl Castro
Vice President	Juan Almeida Bosque
Vice President	Abelardo Colomé Ibarra
Vice President	Carlos Lage Dávila
Vice President	Esteban Lazo Hernández
Vice President	José R. Machado Ventura
Secretary	José M. Miyar Barrueco
Director of the William Soler Hospital	Nidia Diana Martínez Piti
Vice Dean of the Salvador Allende Faculty	María T. Ferrer Madrazo
Director of Santiago de Cuba Education	Marta Hernández Romero
Minister of Health	José Ramón Balaguer
First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the PCC in Havana	Pedro Sáez Montejo
First Secretary of the National Committee of the Young Communist League	Otto Rivero Torres
Vice President of the Council of Ministers	Pedro Miret Prieto
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Felipe Pérez Roque
Minister of Basic Industry	Yadira García
Minister President of the Central Bank of Cuba	Francisco Soberón Valdés
Member of the Council of State	Carlos Valenciaga Díaz
Director of the Jose Martí Program Office	Armando Hart Dávalos
President of the Casa de las Américas	Roberto Fernández Retamar
President of the Electronics Group	Ramiro Valdés
First Vice President of the National Institure of Sports	Julio Cristhian Jiménez Molina
Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment	Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín
General Director of the Genetics and Biotechnology	Luis S. Herrera Martínez
Territorial Delegate of the Ministry of Science	Iris Betancourt Téllez
Secretary General of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions	Pedro Ross Leal
President of the Federation of Cuban Women	Vilma Espín Guillois - died 18 June, 2007
President of the National Association of Small Farmers	Orlando Lugo Fonte

See also

★ List of Prime Ministers of Cuba

★ Council of Ministers

★ List of Presidents of Cuba