Marcelino Medina and Sergei Glazyev

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Havana, Dec 13 (RHC)-- The Cuban Foreign Ministry thanked the Eurasian Economic Commission for its support, ratified its commitment to the organization, and expressed the island's desire to strengthen ties with member states.

According to the official website Cubaminrex, First Deputy Foreign Minister Marcelino Medina confirmed these ideas during a dialogue with Sergei Glazyev, Minister of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Union.

The visitor is on the island as part of the II Joint Session between the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and Cuba.

Earlier on Monday, Glaziev and the vice prime minister of the Caribbean nation, Ricardo Cabrisas, signed an action plan for mutual collaboration.

The agreement establishes 34 actions in areas such as commercial economy, financial banking, technical regulation, health, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, tourism, agribusiness, and inter-business links, to be implemented in the period 2021-2025.

The document will be enriched with the work of both parties and the identification of shared interests, they said at the time of the signing, which took place at the end of the II Joint Session.

Cabrisas stressed the need for the active participation of the banking systems, including the Eurasian Development Bank. They said that this occasion could be propitious to boost relations in this area, which is essential to carry out projects of interest to both parties.

We have the same development agendas, and we are aware of the need to work for increasingly sustainable economies, remarked the Deputy Prime Minister of the island, who highlighted the ties of brotherhood and solidarity that unite them.

He also expressed his gratitude for the historic position of the nations that make up the Commission against the economic, commercial, and financial blockade of the United States.