Aleinik, who is on a working visit to this capital, is meeting with Cuban Vice-President Salvador Valdes and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero this Tuesday before visiting the Fidel Castro Center in Havana.

On Monday, Cuba’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Ricardo Cabrisas confirmed, alongside the Belarusian foreign minister, the interest in strengthening ties between the two nations.

Cabrisas received the head of Belarusian diplomacy at the Council of Ministers headquarters and conveyed to him Cuba’s willingness to increase the exchange between the respective entrepreneurs in areas of common interest such as food and provision of services.

He described Aleinik’s visit as an excellent opportunity to promote collaboration agreements signed between the parties and materialize the outlined objectives.

Aleinik ratified his country’s willingness to expand collaboration, exchanges, and economic and commercial activity under mutually beneficial conditions.

The Belarusian diplomat also met with President of the National People’s Power Assembly (Parliament) Esteban Lazo and acting Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal.

Cuba and Belarus celebrated 30 years of diplomatic ties on April 16, in a context of revitalization of bilateral cooperation, including in the medical sphere, with the exchange of medicines and the use of Cuba’s homegrown vaccines in the immunization processes in the other country.

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