North Korea and Cuba to break trade, collaboration inertia in 2019
Staff Writer |
In 2019 North Korea and Cuba will break the inertia in which their commercial and cooperation relations are, affirmed Yun Jong Ho, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations (MREE).
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With this goal in mind, a Protocol of Commercial Exchange and Collaboration will be signed in the second half of January in Havana, according to the source.
The news came in the context of a MREE tribute to the 60th anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution, held in the residential neighborhood of Munsu-dong, Daedonggong District, where the Cuban diplomatic headquarters is in this country.
With the signing of the document, the two countries will begin to respond, in the commercial and collaboration order, to the decisions of the Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel and the Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, adopted in this capital early last November to strengthen the aforementioned sector, said Jesus Aise, Cuban Ambassador here.
This should contribute to the Cuban-Korean commercial and collaboration relations rising as soon as possible to the same level as their political and government relations, added the Caribbean diplomatic representative.
Aise also reminded Prensa Latina of the high level of agreement between Havana and Pyongyang on the main issues on the international agenda and cooperation in multilateral forums.
Last November 4, along with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, the Vice President of the Council of Ministers Ricardo Cabrisas, and the Ministers of Communications, Industry and Energy and Mines, Jorge Luis Perdomo, Alfredo Lopez and Raul Garcia, respectively, visited this country.
Yun did not offer details of the document announced to be sealed this January in Havana, to oxygenate the commercial and collaboration relations between the two countries whose peoples also suffer a severe economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States, which hinders their normal development. ■
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