HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 25 ACN) The VIII Cuba-Brazil Technical Cooperation Task Group Meeting wrapped up in this city, with the signing of important collaboration accords in scientific and technological fields.
Andréia Rigueira, general director of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) presided over the Brazilian delegation while the host group was headed by Orlando Requeijo Gual, Cuba’s Foreign Investment and Collaboration deputy Minister. Both parties signed agreements on agriculture, water resources, fish cultivation and fishing, public finances, environment, meteorology and quality, geology and mining, health and IT.
Requiejo labeled as a very important the stage bilateral relations are, and stressed his satisfaction on the results and predicted new advances on the relationships. Meantime, the Brazilian official highlighted the strengthening of the bilateral relationships that are gradually increasing, and she said Brazilians consider this cooperation as very rich and profitable for both sides. Brazil has become the second business partner in Latin America and the Caribbean, surpassing the 450 million dollars commercial exchange in 2007 between the two nations.
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