Cuba will expand economic and trade relations with Iran and Algeria

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 4 (acn) Cuba will deepen its economic relations with Iran and Algeria, important commercial actors of Africa and Asia, through the holding of two intergovernmental commissions with high level representatives of those two nations during this month of January.

Havana will host the 18th Session of the Cuba-Iran Intergovernmental Commission that will take place on January 15 and 16 which will be attended by the Iranian health minister, said Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuba´s Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, in his Twitter account.
At present, the collaboration between the Caribbean island and the Persian country covers the sectors of health, education, sports, renewable energy, technological exchange, investments.
Also on January, it will be held the intergovernmental commission of cooperation between Cuba and Algeria, based in Algiers, capital of the North African nation, occasion that, according to Malmierca, will continue strengthening the traditional friendship relations between the two peoples.
Biotechnology, water resources, sports, agriculture, basic and higher education, as well as promotion of foreign trade and foreign investment are part of the areas of exchange between the two nations that established diplomatic relations in 1962.