Cuban deputy PM praises international cooperation in legal sector

HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 12 (ACN) The will to promote dialogue, cooperation and regional understanding marked the meeting held today in Havana between Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, Cuban deputy prime minister, and Enrique Gil Botero, secretary general of the Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American Countries (COMJIB).

Cabrisas Ruiz conveyed to his interlocutor the greetings of Manuel Marrero Cruz, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Prime Minister, who, according to him, is closely following everything that took place during the visit.

He also reiterated the willingness of Cuba to continue strengthening ties and collaboration, while recognizing the role of the Conference in the promotion of international treaties and spaces for exchange and training on issues of concern to the international community.

During the meeting he stressed that in the country, since the entry into force of the Constitution of the Republic in 2019, 41 laws and 102 decree laws have been approved, a legislative exercise without precedent and necessary for the updating of the national legal system.

Cuba is grateful for the efforts of the COMJIB to publicize and confront the unjustified policy of economic, commercial and financial blockade sustained by the U.S. government against the island for more than six decades, he added.

For his part, Gil Botero expressed his pleasure to be in the Caribbean nation and highlighted the importance of its Ministry of Justice in the Ibero-American space. El calificó a Cuba como un baluarte en todos lo actos de cooperación jurídica internacional.

The meeting was also attended by Oscar Manuel Silvera Martinez, Cuban Minister of Justice.