The Minister of State for Foreign and Cultural Affairs of IndiaMeenakashi Lekhi, confirmed his country’s will to strengthen political dialogue and economic relations with Cuba, the Cuban Foreign Ministry reported this Friday.
Lekhi, visiting the island, met this Friday with the Cuban vice chancellor and interim minister of that portfolio, Gerardo Peñalver, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex), the entity indicated.
The Cuban diplomat “referred to the potential to continue expanding exchanges in health, biotechnology, renewable energy sources, industry and agriculture,” according to a note of the Chancellery.
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Both officials “reviewed the main issues on the bilateral and multilateral agenda” and “agree that bilateral cooperation has made progress since the Second Round of Political Consultations, held in June of last year in Havana.”
They also maintained that the two countries “hold common positions in defense of the principles of International Law, multilateralism and the legitimate rights of developing countries.”
The conversation took place in a “friendly climate in which both parties exchanged about the good state of bilateral relations and ratified their willingness to continue expanding them,” the source said.
India, within the Asia and Oceania region, is one of Cuba’s top 20 trading partners and has granted important lines of credit for the execution of projects in the agricultural and renewable energy sectors.
