Cuba Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz Vicegobernante visit Madrid – El Nuevo Herald

The Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos, met Friday with Cuban vicegobernante, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, to “give an impetus” to “traditional good relations” between the two countries.

De Guindos and Cabrisas, vicegobernante the Council of Ministers in charge of multilateral economic relations, they discussed “issues of mutual interest in the economic sphere”, the Spanish Ministry of Economy said in a statement.

Among the issues treaties, both economic leaders addressed the issue of the “Cuban short-term debt with Spain” and “have laid the groundwork for an agreement allowing the establishment of new conditions,” the report said.

Questioned by AFP, the Ministry of Economy did not provide any details about these new conditions.

“The content will be ratified by the governments of the countries at an upcoming meeting in Havana,” the ministry added, without giving further details.

The meeting occurred outside a private visit Cabrisas to Madrid, as he called the Cuban embassy in the Spanish capital.

Ten years ago not a meeting of this type occurs, according to diplomatic information office of the ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“Within the traditional good relations between the two countries, Cuba now represents a new opportunity for Spanish investment” , the ministry added in a statement.

“In this context, Cuban and Spanish authorities are actively working to expand economic, trade and financial relations,” said the note.

Ricardo Cabrisas made a stopover in Madrid after a stay in Angola and before continuing path towards Cuba, the Cuban embassy said.

This visit comes in the context of rapprochement between the US and Cuba, under a month after both countries formally reestablished on July diplomatic relations, broken since 1961.

Spain, whose conservative government was criticized for his caution on bringing the Cuban regime, expected also take advantage of the opening of Cuba.

Thus, Havana sent a large delegation of businessmen earlier this month, led by Minister of Industry and Tourism, José Manuel Soria.

Cuba and the European Union are engaged since 2014 in negotiations to normalize relations, a dialogue that Madrid wants to boost after US forestall him.