Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez receives ECLAC Executive Secretary

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers, received Alicia Bárcenas Ibarra, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) this Monday morning.

During the friendly meeting, the senior UN official praised Cuba's exemplary response to the Secretary-General of the United Nations’ call to address the Ebola epidemic in Africa and demonstrated her interest in the outcome of the recent ALBA-TCP Summit in Havana.

Other topics discussed were education and cooperation, as well as progress in the updating of Cuba’s economic model, with Minister for Foreign Trade and Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, also participating.