Cuba and Australia sign Memorandum of Understanding
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| Published on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) Bruno Rodriguez and Stephen Smith, Foreign Affairs Ministers of Cuba and Australia respectively, signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday in Havana.
The document reads that it has the purpose of institutionalizing the political consultations between the two ministries as well as to expand the cooperation and mutual contacts. It also favours meetings in third countries, working together on several international affairs and in forums.
Stephen Smith heads a delegation on an official visit that arrived in Havana this Sunday following an invitation made by Rodriguez.
The visitor is part of the new Labour government, elected in November 2007 and this is his first visit to Cuba.
Cuba and Australia established their official diplomatic relations on January 31, 1989.
In 1994 Gareth Evans, then-Foreign Minister, visited Havana. No other Australian in that position had travelled to Cuba until Smith did this Sunday. | | | | Reads : 438 | | | |
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