Paraguay and Cuba seek to strengthen their commercial relations

The ambassador of Cuba in Paraguay, Raúl Gortázar, and the substitute minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay, Federico González, met today in Asunción to try to improve the commercial relations between both countries, as reported by the Foreign Ministry on its website.

Asunción, Nov 8 (EFE) .- The ambassador of Cuba in Paraguay, Raúl Gortázar, and the substitute minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay, Federico González, met today in Asunción to try to improve the commercial relations between both countries, according to the Foreign Ministry on its website.

Gortázar insisted during the hearing on "working on the issues that unite" Cuba and Paraguay and stressed the need to increase economic exchange.

The Cuban diplomat said that his country is characterized by the "great development in medicine" and assured that they have "open foreign investment".

"You have a lot of experience in food production, in the production of meat and livestock, which are aspects that Cuba needs develop. Paraguay.

In fact, the Paraguayan Foreign Minister, Eladio Loizaga, advanced in November last year that Cuba authorized the importation of bovine, porcine and poultry meat from Paraguay, as well as from Dairy products and derivatives of the South American country and without any type of quota.

Thus, the Paraguayan company Frigorífico Concepción announced in August of this year that it will export 25 tons of beef and another 25 of hamburgers frozen on a monthly basis to Cuba.

On the other hand, the representative of Cuba in Paraguay took advantage of the meeting with González to refer to the quality of Cuban education in Medicine.

At present, 127 Paraguayans study this discipline in the Caribbean country, which will be added to another 1,225 Paraguayans who already They have graduated as doctors in Cuban universities.

Official data hold that on the island some 164,920 Cuban doctors and 33,973 graduated from the beginning of the Revolution. foreigners from 129 countries.