“Cuba hopes to benefit from the Emirates’ experience in different sectors to achieve development,” said Marrero in exclusive statements to the Emirati agency WAM during his participation in the World Summit of Governments, which is meeting in this capital.
Taking advantage of his work agenda, the head of Government signed a memorandum of understanding to exchange experiences in development and government modernization, as a testimony to the strengthening of bilateral relations that have taken a more expeditious path since President Miguel Díaz-Canel’s visit to UAE in November last year.
He also highlighted that Cuba, a highly consuming country of fossil fuels, has the support of the United Arab Emirates to develop different renewable energy projects, which will help it in its strategy to completely eliminate this energy source.
In the agricultural sector, he reported that both nations are considering the possibility of the UAE financing joint projects to produce food in the Caribbean nation. Within the framework of the World Government Summit, Marrero will participate tomorrow in a business forum on tourism, where he will share space with five local airlines to see options for collaboration and complementation, in order to strengthen this sector for the benefit of both countries.
Likewise, he praised the organization of this type of summit by the United Arab Emirates, considering it a great opportunity to address such important and delicate issues as governance, the internet and artificial intelligence.
Likewise, he made reference to the advances of the largest of the Antilles in terms of gender equality and to combat climate change.
In this sense, he pointed out that women are the majority among the country’s workers, university students and Parliament, in addition to occupying a very important role in labor matters with equity in terms of responsibilities and salaries.
Regarding climate change, he spoke about the Tarea Vida project to identify, by 2050 and 2100, all climate impacts in the Caribbean nation.
This Tuesday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates announced an initiative between the UAE, Cuba and Brazil to improve collaboration on food security, agreed during COP28 in December last year.
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