"Cuba and Ukraine intend to revive its links,"

by Concepción Pérez, Elson, February 17th, 1998, page 5.

During official conversations  in MINREX, the ministers of foreign affairs, Guennadi Udovenko of Ukraine, and Roberto Robaina, stated  the interest of both governments to revive the bilateral economic and trade links. Udovenko told the press that the most important goal is to make much broadly the exchange between the two countries in 1998.

In conversation with Granma, Sergio Lopez, Ambassador of Cuba in Ukraine, reported that last year the bilateral trade was around 13 million dollars, but in that country as in ours, there are conditions to increase that amount.

Roberto Robaina, at opening the conversations with the Ukrainian delegation stressed the special nature of this visit, not only for Udovenko being the first Ukrainian minister of  foreign affairs to travel to Cuba, but also because he is currently chairman of the UN General Assembly, and since his appointment Cuba is where he first visited.

On his behlaf, Gennady Udovenko referred to "some depression" in the economic and trade relationships in recent years, and the need to "keep those links at the highest level as possible."

The guess Minister thanked the assistance provided in Havana to more than 14 000 Ukrainian children affected by the catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. In this connection, the ambassador Sergio Lopez reported Tuesday that today five Cuban doctors travel to Kiev to work permanently in a medical-assistance center set up in Crimea to diagnose children with disorders due to the effects of Chernobyl. They may assist up to 10 000 children every year, simultaneously with 1 000 who come to Cuba and to receice treatment in Tarará, said the Ambassador.

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