Nursultan: Cuba will participate in the meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council as an Observer State of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Prensa Latina reports.
Heads of State and Government of the UEE and representatives of the observer countries will participate in the event, as was published on the official Facebook page of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
The Russian Federation and the republics of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan are part of the EEU, and the republics of Moldova, Uzbekistan and Cuba have observer status.
The Government of Cuba appointed its Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Julio Garmendia, as Permanent Representative of Cuba to the Eurasian Economic Commission.
This would be the first meeting of the EEU in which Cuba will participate as an Observer State, after it was approved as such during an online summit of the EEU Supreme Council, held on December 11th, 2020.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel remarked in said meeting Cuba’s political will to open greater opportunities for trade and investment with the Eurasian Economic Union, and urged to identify the potential that exists for economic exchange in different sectors and suggested creating conditions in order to make common projects come true.
The Caribbean president expressed the country’s satisfaction with the new rank and ratified the commitment to strengthen economic ties and cooperation with the alliance.
He highlighted the ties of friendship and cooperation that traditionally accompany relations between the island and countries of the alliance such as Russia and Belarus.
Díaz-Canel urged to identify the potential that exists for economic exchange in different sectors and suggested creating conditions to carry out joint projects.
The president assured that the granting of this status constitutes recognition of the relations between the UEE countries and the island.
According to official sources, the countries of the alliance were already collaborating with the largest of the Antilles through a memorandum signed in 2018, but there was a mutual interest in expanding that cooperation.
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