With just hours left for the IV International Fair of Food, Beverage, Packaging and Food Technology (Cuba 2024) to conclude this Friday in the capital, its Organizing Committee considers it a success for having exceeded expectations in terms of number of entities and participating countries compared to the previous edition.

Tamara Valido Benitez, chairwoman of the Committee on Services of the Cuban Parliament, and Sangadzhi A. Tarbaev, chairman of the Committee for Tourism and Development of Tourism Infrastructure of the State Duma of Russia, exchanged views on the prospects and potential for strengthening cooperation in tourism, especially from the parliamentary sphere, via videoconference.

“Isla Grande”, a new brand of rum to be presented today at the 4th International Food, Beverages and Packaging Fair, under way in this city, highlights the know-how of Cuban rum masters, according to Karla Castillo Rodriguez, marketing and development director of Cuba Ron, S.A.

The official constitution of the International Economic Association Emberca-Los Primos between a Cuban and a French entity took place at the 4th International Fair of Food, Beverage, Packaging and Food Technology CUBA 2024, under way in this city.

The 4th International Fair of Food, Beverages, Packaging and Food Technology CUBA 2024, under way in Havana, is intended to showcase goods and services for export and to promote production linkages for the benefit of industry and other sectors.

A few days after Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez participated in Moscow in the Supreme Council of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), businesspeople from the island will meet in this city with members of that integrationist bloc.

Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, Cuban ambassador to Canada, presented business opportunities with the island to representatives of companies based on the province of Quebec.

A delegation from the Saudi Fund for Development ( SFD), headed by Abdulmohsen Al Khayal, executive director of Local Content, met in Havana with Cuban deputy prime minister Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, to whom they ratified their willingness to continue financing cooperation projects on the island.

Havana will host the 3rd International Convention on Trade July 8-12 at the city’s Conventions Hall to address major consumption trends, the impact of food safety and quality and foreign investment as an opportunity for development.

Cuba’s Economy and Planning Ministry approved the applications to set up 112 new micro, small and medium companies.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban prime minister, is participating today at the 69th meeting of the Regional Commission for the Americas of UN Tourism, a United Nations agency in charge of promoting responsible, sustainable and accessible tourism for all.

Five panels on problems of concern to humanity will be held today in Havana at the 2nd International Congress on the world's imbalances, the urgency of peace and development and the need for a New International Economic Order ("NIEO").

The Regional Commission for the Americas is very important, it is that meeting that unites the ministers for the development of the sector, said Natalia Bayona, executive director of UN Tourism, on the meeting that will be held today in this western resort city.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, member of the Political Bureau and Cuban Prime Minister, informed that it was decided to make a comprehensive review of the Government Projections to correct distortions and boost the economy during 2024, and of the Plan of Actions approved to implement them.