Cuba and Austria Sign Agreement on Debt

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 2 (acn) Ricardo Cabrisas, Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, held a working meeting on Wednesday afternoon with Rudolf Scholten, director general of the Bank of Austrian Control, with whom he made a comprehensive analysis of the current situation and prospects of the economic, commercial and financial relations between the two countries, considering the results of the Cuba-Austria Business Forum held in the morning of that same day.

The two parties agreed that the implementation of the treatment of the Cuban debt, as agreed in the context of negotiations held with the Ad-Hoc Group of the Paris Club and the signing of the Agreement between the governments of the Republic of Cuba and the Republic of Austria, represents an important contribution in the proposed common objectives.
The bilateral agreement was signed by Vice-president Ricardo Cabrisas on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Cuba, and by the general director of the Austrian Control Bank, Dr. Rudolf Scholten, acting as agent of the Government of the Republic of Austria.
Accompanying the visitor were Dr. Christoph Matznetter, vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Walter Koren, deputy director general of the Federation of Industrialists, among other members of the Austrian delegation.
Cuba was also represented at the meeting by Arnaldo Alayon and Isaac Hernandez, vice-president and director of the Central Bank of Cuba, respectively; Aleida González, vice president of the National Bank of Cuba, and Yamila Fernandez del Busto, general director of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment, among other officials.