On September 19, 2023, the rector of the Educational Establishment  “Vitebsk State Order of Peoples’ Friendship Medical University” Alexey Chukanov and the representatives of the rector’s office took part in the I Meeting of university rectors of the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Cuba, which was held at Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics in Minsk. At the meeting, directions for the development of international cooperation between Belarus and Cuba in the field of education were discussed.