Guatemala VP Visits Cuba
Guatemala Vice President Eduardo Stein visits Cuba Wednesday with a high-level delegation, to augment bilateral relations in several fields.

The entourage is made up of deputy ministers of Health, Energy, Foreign Affairs, Interior, Economy, Culture and Sports, the Presidential Commissioners of Tourism and Human Rights, as well as a group of businesspeople.

"The agenda is quite large and the aim is to retake the level links had when they were renewed in 1998," said Deputy Foreign Minister Luis Fernando Andrade, member of the delegation and former counselor of the Guatemalan embassy in Cuba.

In statements to Prensa Latina, Andrade highlighted his country's will of increasing areas of cooperation and exchange, above all, in health, energy, biotechnology and security.

The deputy foreign minister termed praiseworthy the work the Cuban physicians are doing in remote areas of Guatemala.

The managerial group accompanying the vice president will attend the Havana International Fair, one of the most important trade fairs of the area, to be opened on October 30.

This is the second trip to Cuba of the Guatemalan vice president, who also participated with Foreign Minister Gert Rosenthal in the Non-Aligned Movement Summit.