The government of Havana and the Italian city of Turín signed on Wednesday a collaboration agreement on issues of common interest in the cultural, economic and social fields, which will further consolidate working relations between the parties and contribute to the development of the capital.

During the act, held at Hose of Protocol, the governor of Havana, Reinaldo García Zapata, pointed out that with this agreement a contribution is made to the Integral Strategic Development Plan 2030.

According to García Zapata this initiative will cause an impact in all the municipalities in Havana, which, despite other cities, count on an articulation among its municipalities.

When facing the 502th anniversary of the capital, detailed, within the next few months it will be created a work platform that will allow organization and re-ordering of the city.

Likewise, he explained, Cuban vaccines are being proved in other countries, with an effectiveness that has been demonstrated. There was a moment when re-opening was made and the Covid-19 cases increased but in the last few days a diminishing in the contagious can be perceived at a time when most of the population have already been vaccinated.

The governor of Havana commented about the hardening of the U.S blockade against Cuba, which has complicated the situation in the country, but at the same time he supported the measures taken for improving the Cuban social project.

¨Cuba-he said-share its goods with the rest of the world and in that sense, he thanked for the donation made by Italy that helped out our country to face the pandemic in the hardest moments¨.

We are two countries united by brotherhood, willing to keep moving forward towards future and strengthen our bilateral relation in every possible aspect.

On his part, the Italian Ambassador, Roberto Vellano, stressed out that it is foreseen that Cuba will be placed into the European country as one of the places in the world that can be possible to travel to, once international airports are re-opened next November. Under this aim, work will be done in order to get more Italians tourists involved in travelling to the Greater of the Antiques.

Next October, a group of 40 Italians will travel to Cuba in a willingly act of taking a Soberana Plus dose as part of the joint research with the Finlay Institute of Vaccines.

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This is the first European action related to the Cuban vaccine, that will be administrated as a re-enforcement dose to these voluntary subjects who will be follow- up according protocols.

The diplomatic highlighted the effortlessly work done carried out by Italian associations in Cuba under the aim of consolidating the relationship between both nations.

He stressed out that ambitious project on progress at the Italia Avenue, on which a new phase will begin once everything goes back to normal and thanked the presence of the medical Cuban brigades in Turin last year, an action that he will never forget and forwarded that the activities commemorating the Week of the Italian Culture will be carried out in collaboration with the Office of the historian of the City and the Ministry of Culture.

We are talking about solidarity, but also about concrete measures to support Cuba in the current socio-economic context.

Among the participants, as part of the Italian delegation in the Signing Event, there were the General Secretary of the Embassy of Italia in Cuba, Giullio Di Federico, Furio Masolino, from the Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development(AICS), the Director of Foreign Commerce Institute(ICE), Simona Autori and the President of the Agency for the Cultural and Economic Exchange, Michele Curto.

Representing the Cuban delegation there were, among others, Carlos Góngora, Director of Foreign Commerce and Foreign Affairs, the Consultor of CETA SA for AICEC, Roberto Rodríguez and the specialist of technology and quality of AICEC, Indira Estrada.