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Medical school in Cuba for young
people from Solomon Islands
• Cuban medical
brigade to provide services in that Southern Pacific
archipelago
THE
governments of Cuba and the Solomon Islands have
signed a cooperation agreement in Havana laying the
bases for subsequent and systematic progress on ties
between the two nations in different areas.
They
also signed a separate cooperation agreement,
between the Cuban Ministry of Public Health and the
Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical
Services, for 50 young people from the archipelago
to study medicine free of charge in Cuba, and for a
Cuban medical brigade to provide its services in
that Southern Pacific archipelago.
Both
documents were signed by Martha Lomas, Cuban
minister of foreign investment and economic
cooperation, and Foreign Minister Patteson Oti of
the Solomon Islands, in the presence of Cuban
Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque.
Previously, the two foreign ministers held official
talks, enabling them to review the state of
relations between the two nations, which established
diplomatic relations on December 19, 2003.
Pérez Roque noted that the talks a few months ago in
New York with Solomon Islands Prime Minister
Manasseh Sogavare and this current visit are opening
the way to closer cooperation between the two
countries.
He
thanked that country, a friend of Cuba’s, for its
support in international forums, particularly for
its vote in favor of the resolution asking for an
end to the economic, commercial and financial
blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba.
“We
are small islands facing the challenges of that
condition, and we are facing the common dangers of
the threats posed by global warming. We are living
and trying to develop in an unjust, unequal world
that makes it very difficult for small countries to
exercise their right to development and peace,”
Pérez Roque stated.
Oti said he was proud to forge ties of cooperation
with the Caribbean island, and to benefit from its
achievements in areas like public health, something
for which Cuba is recognized worldwide. |
