BioCubaFarma will return from Russia with the signing of at least three documents that official press has been described as contracts, although strictly speaking it is only the one that will allow the acquisition of active ingredients of the medicines. The information gives the example of azithromycin, one of the most sought after antibiotics in Cuba and which is often in short supply in pharmacies, although in the informal market it is around 400 or 500 pesos per blister.
Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of BioCubaFarma, celebrated the agreement and announced two others, much less specific. One of them, a memorandum to “establish a strategy for scientific-technical cooperation and the transfer and assimilation of technology.” This agreement, which includes the commercialization of raw materials to produce generic medicines, was signed with the Russian company JSC Active Components.
The other is a “letter of intent from the Eurasian Economic Union (UEE) to create a multinational alliance” that will allow “short-term sovereignty” to be achieved, as well as the production of vaccines and medicines.
“We want the BioCubaFarma company to represent us in Latin America. We are very happy to have signed these documents on cooperation with our partners
Martínez Díaz sold in the Russian city of Sochi, where he was accompanying Prime Minister Manuel Marrero at the meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, a catalog of products to treat infectious and chronic diseases, including diabetes, neurological pathologies and all kinds of cancers. The intention, he stated, is that they can be marketed in Latin America and the “Eurasian zone”, since the three signed documents include Belarus as a party, although his contribution is unknown.
For Cuba, the gain is in the acquisition of raw materials, technology and medical equipment especially, as the authorities of the pharmaceutical sector present this Thursday at the event underlined. But it also became clear what the Russians get in return.
“We want the BioCubaFarma company to represent us in Latin America. We are very happy to have signed these documents on cooperation with our partners and we are sure that the results will be effective,” said the representative of JSC Active Components.
In March of this yearMexico, Colombia and Cuba announced the creation of a Latin American and Caribbean Medicines Agency (Amlac) with the objective of “consolidating the self-sufficiency of strategic supplies in the region” and strengthening the authorization of drugs and vaccines during health emergencies through of common regulatory frameworks.
“This alliance that we have established today will bring very positive results for both the Russian Federation and Cuba, and also for other countries in the Eurasian region and Latin America and the Caribbean”
The agreement, open to other countries, among which Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic were expressly cited, has a declared regional intention, both in terms of regulation as in the exchange of raw materials, technology and final product, but in this equation Russia has the gateway through Cuba.
“This alliance that we have established today will provide very positive results for both the Russian Federation and Cuba, and also for other countries in the Eurasian region and Latin America and the Caribbean,” insisted Martínez Díaz, which asked the Russian side to work actively to materialize the agreement as soon as possible.
marrerowho witnessed the vigilant signing and standing next to the president of BioCubaFarma, dedicated yesterday in Sochi to emphasizing the ties between Cuba and the Eurasian space, to which he offered the installation of an industrial park.
“It is our purpose to promote the creation of an industrial park of the Union in the Special Development Zone of Mariel. Its materialization would be an expression of a conjunction of efforts to achieve chains that lead to that interregional integration to which we aspire, especially in the context of a multipolar world,” he said in his speech.
The prime minister further explained Cuba’s position as the key to the continent, “a region with which we have signed economic complementarity agreements for the reduction of tariffs
The prime minister further explained Cuba’s position as the key to the continent, “a region with which we have signed economic complementarity agreements for the reduction of tariffs. Our potential, as a bridge to Latin America, offer alternatives to complement each other and project efforts towards new spaces integration,” he said.
Marrero once again sold Cuba’s “potential” in the biotechnology sector and other joint ventures in industry, health, tourism, education, digital economy, electronic commerce and energy. I mean, almost everything. And he also offered to Cuban businessmen, to whom he attributed an interest in trading with the Eurasian zone.
The speech was also fraught with ideological messages, beginning with the statement that Fidel Castro would be “proud” to see Cuba participating in such an event, the challenges of a post-pandemic world, the importance of peace – without any reference, even a veiled one. , to Ukraine– and the struggle of the Cuban people against the adversities, attributed to the “intensified blockade”.
“We are fighting, not only to resist, but to develop, and I can assure you that Cuba will never surrender, and that we will defend our independence and sovereignty ‘until victory always,'” he intoned before the audience.
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