(EFE).- The Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) reported this Sunday on a meeting between representatives of its formation and the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) where, it assured, it sought to advance relations between the European Union (EU) and Cuba.
In a statement on its website, the PCC explained that this was one of the main points of a meeting recently held in Havana by representatives of both formations.
In a statement on its website, the PCC explained that this was one of the main points of a meeting recently held in Havana by representatives of both formations.
“Both parties declared themselves to maintain and develop the bilateral political dialogue, for the benefit of our peoples, as well as to support the advancement of relations between the European Union and Cuba,” the note indicates.
At the meeting, he picks up the official newspaper GranmaThe deputy head and coordinator of the Department of International Relations of the Central Committee of the PCC, Ángel Arzuaga, and the coordinator of the organization secretariat of the PSOE, Julio Navalpotro, participated.
Arzuaga, according to the statement, explained to the Spanish politician the main results of the eighth Congress of the PCC, held last year, as well as the socioeconomic situation of the country, which is going through a serious crisis.
For his part, the leader of the PSOE reported on the results of his party’s 40th Congress and reported on the adverse effects of the pandemic on the Spanish economy.
Cuba and the EU relaunched their relations with the signing in 2016 of the historic Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (ADPC), provisionally in force since November 2017, and which put an end to 20 years of the previous policy, known as the Common Position, which it conditioned the relations of the community bloc with the Island to advances in human rights and democracy.
The Twenty-seven considered at that time that that framework had been useless and it was necessary to develop a new one that, however, also included a section dedicated to human rights.
Cuba and the EU relaunched their relations with the signing in 2016 of the historic Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (ADPC), provisionally in force since November 2017
The European Parliament, the EU legislature, has passed numerous resolutions condemning the island’s policy on the issue of human rights, sometimes by overwhelming majorities of which social democratic parties were part. From this institution, some parties, most of them from the right and liberals, have urged to break the ADPC.
However, the Commission, the executive body, is currently taking the opposite line and is not planning to break relations.
The EU is one of the main trading partners of the Island, with a total exchange volume that exceeds 35% of its operations, in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, renewable energies, health, social and economic modernization and tourism.
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