Cuba, Iran to Enhance Economic, Medical Cooperation

Date: 16 January 2019 - 21:23

News ID: ۶۲۱۱۹

TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Iran and Cuba are slated to sign 6 MoUs to expand mutual cooperation in areas of sports, medicine, farming, vaccine production and pharmaceuticals at the end of the two countries' Joint Economic Cooperation Commission in Havana.
Iranian Deputy Health Minister Mohsen Assadi Lari has arrived in Havana to attend the 17th Iran-Cuba Joint Economic Cooperation Commission, sign mutual cooperation documents in various fields and hold meetings with the Cuban officials.
Heading a senior delegation, he is slated to hold talks with that country’s officials, including health minister, vice chairman and minister of trade and foreign investment in the two-day official visit to Cuba.
During the trip, some six memoranda of understanding (MoUs) in the fields of trade, sports, agriculture, pharmaceutical products, transfer of knowledge for producing Pneumococcal vaccine will be signed by the officials of the two countries.
Head of Pasteur Institute of Iran (a major pharmaceutical research and innovation center) along with representatives from Export Guarantee Fund of Iran and Foreign Ministry officials are accompanying deputy health minister in his trip to Havana.