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The arrival in the Russian Federation of Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz responds to an official invitation for Cuba’s participation in the St. Petersburg 2024 International Economic Forum.
The event, convened under the theme The basis of a multipolar world: formation of new points of growth, will be attended by more than 17,000 people from 136 countries.
The agenda of the Cuban delegation, according to a press release, will promote the expansion and diversification of economic, commercial, financial and cooperation relations between Cuba and Russia, considered by the leaders of both countries as allied relations.
In this regard, contacts will be held with official and business counterparts related to the main issues of the bilateral agenda and the agreements adopted to achieve the effective participation of the Russian Federation in Cuba’s National Economic and Social Development Plan until 2030.
There will also be a meeting of co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Commission for Economic-Commercial and Scientific-Technical Relations, where, together with the Vice President of the Russian Government, Dmitry Chernyshenko, the Cuban Deputy Prime Minister will review the fundamental issues dealt with by this bilateral mechanism.
The Cuban delegation is also made up of the Minister of Transport, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila; Ambassador Julio Garmendía Peña; the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (Mincex), Carlos Luis Jorge Méndez; the director of Europe of the Foreign Ministry, Ileana Núñez Mordoche, and the director of Commercial Policy with this region of the Mincex, Inalvis Bonachea González.