Cuba and Russia work to strengthen relations

HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 4 (ACN) Meetings with parliamentary leaders and business organizations linked to cooperation have made up the work program of a Cuban delegation in Russia, focused on diversifying relations in the widest range of fields.

Cuban deputy prime minister Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, heading the island's representation, held a meeting on Monday with Konstantin Kosachev, vice president of the Russian Federation Council, who assured that Cuba will continue to count on Russian parliamentary support.

According to a press release, in the exchange, Kosachev recognized the importance of Cuba's participation in the St. Petersburg 2024 International Economic Forum and in other events in the sports, cultural and scientific fields that will be held soon in the Eurasian country.

For his part, Cabrisas thanked the usual support of the Russian Federation and recalled the main agreements reached in recent months to strengthen the alliance between the two nations, and referred to the particularities of the moment in which both countries are living, in which the relevance of strengthening bilateral ties is reinforced.

Likewise, in a meeting with Ivan Mielnikov, first deputy speaker of the State Duma and first deputy chairman of the Russian Communist Party, the Cuban delegation discussed recent inter-parliamentary exchanges, chaired on the Cuban side by the vice president of the National Assembly of People's Power, Ana Maria Mari Machado.

The work agenda of the Cuban representation in Moscow also included meetings with leaders and executives of Russian entities and companies linked to key sectors in the bilateral relationship such as sugar agribusiness, transportation, food production and tourism, in which the main actions that are being implemented jointly were analyzed and agreements were adopted for their continuity, the statement reads.

Cabrisas insisted on the importance of progressing with agility and without improvisations, in order to achieve the concretion of the defined purposes and the materialization of joint projects.

Cuban delegation also includes the minister of transport, Eduardo Rodriguez Davila; ambassador Julio Garmendia Peña; the first deputy minister of foreign trade and investment, Carlos Luis Jorge Mendez; the director of Europe of the foreign ministry, Ileana Nunez Mordoche, and the director of trade policy with that region of the ministry of foreign trade and investment, Inalvis Bonachea Gonzalez.