(EFE).- The Cuban Government thanked Spain this Thursday for the donation of medicines and medical supplies for the serious industrial fire in Matanzas.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez expressed it this way to the Spanish ambassador in Havana, Ángel Martín Peccis, in a bilateral meeting and later reflected it in his profile of Twitter.
“I was grateful for the shipment of medicines and medical supplies for the incident in Matanzas,” he wrote in relation to the shipment by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Aecid) of more than 27 tons of aid worth 80,000 euros ( about $82,585).
The material will be delivered in two flights. The first shipment is expected to arrive in Cuba this Friday and the second will take place in two weeks.
The shipment of the Aecid is part of the Team Europe initiative, of the Civil Protection and Humanitarian Action Mechanism of the European Union, which coordinates the aid requested from the EU together with the Member States and finances part of the transport of the humanitarian cargo shipped.
“I was grateful for the shipment of medicines and medical supplies for the incident in Matanzas”
Spain responds with this operation to the appeal made by the Cuban Embassy in Belgium and before the European Union on August 6, in which the Cuban Government expressed the need for this type of shipment.
Rodríguez and Martín also addressed the political and economic relations between the two countries in their meeting, according to the Cuban foreign minister.
“We ratify the will to continue developing the bilateral political dialogue and the economic, commercial and cooperation ties between Cuba and Spain,” Rodríguez said on Twitter.
The industrial fire in Matanzas, declared last Friday and finally controlled this Wednesday, has already been described as the biggest industrial disaster in the history of Cuba. In the incident, four large fuel tanks of a strategic nature for the country burned.
At the moment, no economic cost estimates have been released. The human balance is two dead and 128 injured (six of them serious or critical), but also 14 people remain missing because it has not yet been possible to access to recover their bodies.
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