Havana: The European Union (EU) reiterated that it will defend with all means within its reach the businessmen of the region who are betting to invest in Cuba in the face of the threat of the recently activated Title III of the Helms-Burton law, Radio Habana Cuba publishes.

The unanimous position of the agency and its 28 member countries is to consider the extraterritorial application of this North American legislation as illegal and contrary to international law, said the ambassador to the island of that bloc, Alberto Navarro, in statements to journalists in Havana.

The diplomat attended the celebrations of the Day of Europe at the International Tourism Fair of Cuba, where he talked about the exports of the region to the largest Island of the Antilles, which grew last year by 7.4 percent, and the commercial exchange amounted to more than 2 thousand 500 million, more than a third of the Cuban foreign trade.

In the middle of the current panorama, the president of Iberia, Luis Gallego, landed the day before in the capital of all Cubans, aboard the new Erbus A330-two hundred with the name of the capital of Cuba, to reaffirm his commitment to business with the Caribbean nation.

The trip of the president of the leading line in Spain coincides with the seven decades of the company's first flight to Cuba and in this regard he expressed his hopes that Iberia will maintain, at least for another 70 years, its destination to Havana.

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