Gerardo Peñalver Portal and the First Deputy Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan
HAVANA, 4th July (RHC) Gerardo Peñalver Portal, Cuba’s First Deputy Foreign Minister, today underlined the will to strengthen relations with the member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
During the ministerial meeting of the NAM Coordination Office in Baku, Azerbaijan, Peñalver Portal exchanged views with Tri Tharyat, Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with whom he highlighted the convergences at the bilateral level.
During the meeting, they highlighted the priorities of both countries at the head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Group of 77, and China.
The Caribbean representative reported via his Twitter account that he had met with Kairat Umarov, Kazakhstan’s first deputy foreign minister, where both agreed on the need to strengthen the Global South’s capacities in the face of future pandemics and sustainable locations to find development as a priority pillar for nations.
Peñalver Portal attended the graduation ceremony of the Azerbaijani Linguistic University this Tuesday and congratulated the institution’s 1,500 graduates, twenty of them in Spanish.
The NAM Coordination Office ministerial meeting will be held this Wednesday and Thursday to further advance the process of revitalizing the organization as a forum for political agreement.
On the Cuban side, they will accompany the First Deputy Minister, Carlos Valdés de la Concepción, Cuban Ambassador to Azerbaijan; Nadia Arredondo Picó and Diosdado Hernández Morera, both officials of the Minrex’s Directorate General for Multilateral Affairs and International Law. (Source: ACN)