UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay on Thursday met with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez to further promote the two parties' cooperation in education, science and culture, the Paris-based UN body said in a statement.

"We welcome the renewed support today by the president of Cuba to UNESCO by stressing the importance of our intellectual contributions in culture, education and science in an unstable world. This reaffirmed cooperation between UNESCO and Cuba is a sign of confidence in our organization," Azoulay said.

Azoulay would visit Cuba in 2019 on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Havana. "Old Havana and its Fortifications", a site including the central, historic portion of Havana, as well as Spanish colonial fortifications, was inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1982.

Cuba's inclusions on the list include a variety of sites. As of 2011, nine sites in Cuba are included.