Cuban companies, organizations and experts presented this Tuesday in Havana before a delegation of British businessmen a broad portfolio of investments in the largest of the Antilles and explained legal and tax issues.
Since Monday, the capital's Hotel Nacional hosted a two-day forum in which 28 delegates representing almost twenty companies from the United Kingdom participated.
As part of the activities, Deborah Rivas, high-ranking official of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment presented to visitors various foreign investment projects in this country and detailed the development program by sectors.
For his part, the outstanding jurist Rodolfo Dávalos denounced the extraterritorial character of the Helms-Burton law, by means of which the United States government intends to destroy the Cuban Revolution.
Meanwhile, an official from the National Tax Administration Office explained aspects of the national tax system and a representative from the National Bank of Canada shared his experience here.
The event was inaugurated in the presence of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Also in attendance were Ricardo Cabrisas, Vice President of the Council of Ministers; Rodrigo Malmierca, Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, and on the British side Lord David Triesman, co-president of the Cuba Initiative group.
Later, Cabrisas and the first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Marcelino Medina, received Lord Triesman separately, with whom they discussed the state of bilateral relations.
According to sources from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment, the program of Triesman's visit includes meetings with directors of a dozen portfolios including Energy and Mines, Transport and Tourism, as well as the Central Bank of Cuba.
It will also visit facilities of the BioCubaFarma Business Group and the Mariel Special Development Zone.
Iniciativa Cuba is an independent non-governmental organization that supports programs that improve relations with the United Kingdom and Cuba. It was founded in 1995 in response to a request from both governments with a particular focus on trade and investment promotion.
(With information from Prensa Latina)
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