López-Calva expressed feeling very motivated after the meeting with Gil Fernández.
Photo: @AlejandroGilF
Havana, Jul 7 (RHC) Cuba's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Planning, Alejandro Gil Fernández, received on Wednesday the Under-Secretary General and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Luis Felipe López-Calva, who is on an official visit to our country.
Both were accompanied by officials from these institutions and also from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX), according to the official site of that institution.
During the exchange, Gil Fernández discussed the current context of the Cuban economy and thanked the United Nations Development Program for its support in important tasks for the country's development and to promote the implementation of the National Economic and Social Development Plan and the 2030 Agenda.
For his part, López-Calva ratified the willingness to support Cuba in strategic issues that enable its economic and social growth.
In the United Nations Development Program twitter profile, the visitor expressed feeling very motivated after the meeting with Gil Fernández.
As part of his official visit, López-Calva also met early Wednesday with authorities of the Cuban Civil Defense, during which they exchanged on the intense agenda of joint work for disaster risk mitigation in the face of extreme weather events, a challenge shared throughout the Caribbean region.
The senior United Nations Development Program official also met with representatives of the Single Window for Foreign Investment and MINCEX, and noted the creation of an environment that facilitates foreign investment in the largest Antillean island.
His agenda included a meeting with Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, with whom he discussed issues of digital transformation, circular economy and energy transition.
He also exchanged with Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He discussed opportunities for United Nations Development Program cooperation with Cuba for the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. (Source: ACN)
