SLP, Mexico.- This Friday, January 31, the South Korean authorities officially designated the diplomat Lee Ho-yul as their First ambassador to Cuba.
Lee Ho-Yul had served as a minister at the South Korean embassy against Mexico, and will now serve as an ambassador to Cuba, a country with which the South Korean state established diplomatic relations in February last year.
“Lee, who has experience in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and in the negotiation of Free Trade Agreement (FTA), has the mission of promoting economic cooperation between the two countries,” the agency said KBS.
According to the media, the official Diplomat, in addition to being an expert in commercial matters, has served as general director of the Office of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Together with Lee, they received their cards credentials This Friday the designated ambassadors in Slovenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Serbia, Italy, Latvia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Kenya and Panama.
Cuba had already appointed Claudio Monzón Baeza as his main sent in South Korea.
Agencies like Infobae They have repaired that the relations between Havana and Seoul could affect those that the Castro regime with the North Korean has. In this regard, they point out that the state agency KCNA reported very briefly of the New Year message sent by the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, to Cuban, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
In his communicationKim Jong-un omitted the references to the “brother people” of Cuba, who used to be frequent in their texts.
South Korea opened its embassy in Cuba on January 19 after months of preparations and almost a year that the two countries forge diplomatic relations.
A statement From the diplomatic headquarters of Havana in the Asian country, he reported that during the event he reaffirmed “the common will to develop friendly ties and cooperation for the benefit of both countries.”
The South Korean embassy is located in the Havana Barrio de Miramar, far from the Pyongyang diplomatic headquarters that occupies a more mansion east of the capital, in the Vedado.
South Korea and Cuba made the surprising announcement on February 14 of last year on the establishment of diplomatic relations, in an apparent significant blow for North Korea, which has presumed its “fraternal” ties with Havana since the era of the era of the era of the Cold war.
