Cuba and France confirm cooperation prospects

Paris, March 25 (RHC)-- Cuba's First Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Peñalver met with Christile Drulhe, advisor to the French Prime Minister's Diplomatic Cell, during a meeting in which they verified the prospects for bilateral cooperation.

Peñalver described the exchange of criteria with the official as positive and noted that the parties noted the good development of ties.

"We addressed various issues of the international agenda, with common and divergent views, in a constructive and respectful framework, he stressed on the third day of his working visit to France.

The first deputy minister had already spoken in this capital with Walid Fouque, diplomatic advisor to President Emmanuel Macron for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The day before, he co-chaired with the secretary-general of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, François Delattre, a new session of the inter-chancellery political consultations. They discussed the progress of Paris-Havana relations.

In declarations to Prensa Latina, Peñalver considered the meeting positive. It allowed dealing with a wide range of sectors of the ties, such as economic-commercial and development cooperation, investments, tourism, science, education, and culture.

The possibility of materializing triangular collaboration to help other countries in the area of health was also mentioned, and relations in the multilateral sphere were discussed.