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Cuba and Russia strengthen scientific and educational cooperation

June 6 |

As part of a working visit to Russia, the Cuban Ministers of Education, Naima Trujillo, and Higher Education, Walter Baluja, held meetings with Russian authorities, which allowed strengthening bilateral cooperation in the scientific and educational fields.

As reported today by the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education (MES) on its website, the Cuban officials exchanged with Serguey V. Kabyshev, president of the Science and Higher Education Commission of the State Duma (Lower House), on the potential for increasing bilateral inter-university agreements.

The Cuban side expressed its interest in adding to the existing agreements other joint development projects, academic and student mobility, double degree programs, the creation of chairs and the organization of events, workshops, competitions and joint publications in high-impact journals.

Meanwhile, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz arrived on Tuesday in Russia on an official visit that will last eleven days and is expected to sign important bilateral agreements.

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Marrero informed on his arrival, coming from Türkiye, that the visit has “the purpose of expanding and consolidating bilateral relations between our countries, maintained uninterruptedly since 1960 to the present”.

Prior to his arrival in Russia, the Cuban ambassador in Moscow, Julio Garmendía Peña, confirmed that the Cuban Permier plans to participate in the council of heads of government of the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union to be held in Sochi from June 7 to 9 and later in the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg.

The traditional alliance relations between Moscow and Havana received a new impetus last May, after both countries endorsed the will to strengthen the Russian financial and business presence on the island with various measures of a commercial and financial nature.

The agreements were reached in the context of the bilateral economic business forum held in the Cuban capital last month, and will open several strategic sectors of the Caribbean country to the presence of Russian capital.

In that context, the Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Ricardo Cabrisas, Russia will invest in the branches of transportation, logistics, agriculture, sugar industry, tourism and construction.

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This is Marrero Cruz’s first visit to Russia as Prime Minister, which takes place in the context of expansion and consolidation of ties, particularly economic and commercial ones.

In barely half a year Cuba has been visited by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Presidential Economic Advisor Maksim Oreshkin, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, among others.

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