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Cuba and Argentina Sign New Agreements

Cuban President Raul Castro and his visiting Argentinean counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Monday evening presided over the signing of 11 bilateral agreements in Havana.

CUBA, January 20, 2009. Cuban President Raul Castro and his visiting Argentinean counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Monday evening presided over the signing of 11 bilateral agreements in Havana.

During the ceremony, held at the Palace of the Revolution, new legal instruments were signed in the areas of trade promotion, technology transference regarding foreign trade and humanitarian assistance. Another agreement also establishes the elimination of reciprocal visa requirements for diplomatic, official and service passports.

Memorandums of understanding were also signed in the areas of prevention and mitigation of natural disasters, the peaceful use of nuclear energy, agriculture, fishing, forestry, food industry, biotechnology and rural development.

Cuba and Argentina also signed an accord on the state of scientific- technical cooperation for the joint production of strategic medicines, the rational use of energy and the use of renewable energy sources, technical assistance in the areas of mining and geology, and the creation of a Cuban-Argentinean bi-national center of biotechnology for the development of medicines and vaccines.

The agenda of the Argentinean President on Tuesday includes a meeting with the President of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo Alarcon. She will also give a master lecture at the Main Hall of the University of Havana and she will attend a meeting of businesspeople from both countries. (Cubaminrex- ACN- Juventud Rebelde)