The Cuban president participated virtually today in the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, consisted of heads of State and Government from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Moldova, Uzbekistan and Cuba, which have observer status.

In his speech, Diaz-Canel noted that the Joint Action Plan will be signed in Havana, the implementation of which will make it possible to intensify and systematize collaboration between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Cuba, both at official level and in business circles.

‘To cooperate is the key verb, when our agendas coincide in one priority: the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, already considered the most complex health crisis humanity has experienced in the last 100 years,’ he noted.

He pointed out that in the case of Cuba, the crisis is aggravated by the deliberate and opportunistic tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed more than 60 years ago by the US Government.

During the meeting, the Cuban president informed EAEU member states of the progress achieved by Cuban scientists and doctors in the fight against the disease.

The EAEU is an international organization founded in 2015 for regional economic integration. Among its objectives are to promote the free movement of goods, services, capital and labor.

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