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Cuba is willing to expand and diversify ties with the Eurasian Economic Union 

02 October 2024
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Priority sectors such as industry, agro-industry, medical-pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology, tourism, and special development zones are Cuba's main cards in the face of the national will to expand and diversify ties with the Eurasian Economic Union.The Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Inés María Chapman Waugh, while participating virtually in the session of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, held in the city of Yerevan, capital of the Republic of Armenia, expressed these wishes to the prime ministers and heads of delegations of the Member and Observer States of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), explaining in detail the steps taken to turn this will into concrete facts.He also highlighted the holding, in parallel to this meeting, of the III Eurasian Economic Forum, in which Cuba is represented; as well as the Eurasian Economic Union-Cuba business dialogue, which will analyze the mechanisms to deepen trade and economic cooperation between our countries.Since the previous session of the Council, held in June, Cuba has participated in exchanges with the President of the Eurasian Economic Council, Bakitzhán Saguintáyev, was represented in the Council of Industrial Policy of the Eurasian Economic Commission, and has worked with the Center for Project Coordination and Scientific and Technological Cooperation of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.Exchanges were also initiated in the education sector, and interaction between the Cuban Chamber of Commerce and the Business Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission has grown.