• Submitted by: manso
• Business and Economy
• 12 / 04 / 2010

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HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 4 (acn) The Cuba-South Africa business Forum, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba, will take place on December 6 and 7 at Havana’s Hotel Nacional.

South Africa will participate with a delegation composed of over 50 entrepreneurs in the mining, tourism, agribusiness, construction, communications and pharmaceutical sectors, headed by Robert Davis, Minister of Commerce and Industry.

The meeting will allow the island to show its export potential in some products and services, as well as opportunities for foreign investment, as announced by the Chamber of Commerce’s Department for Information and Publicity by way of a
press release.

Likewise, it will favor the strengthening and expansion of commercial bonds between the two nations, which established diplomatic relations in 1994 after the elimination of the apartheid regime and the establishment of the first multiracial government in the African country.

Cuba and South Africa maintain cooperation accords in the fields of health,labor relations, social security, foreign affairs, and information and communication technologies, the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s Web site reports.


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