14 Cuban entities participate for the first time in the Russian High Technologies Week Sviaz 2024which takes place at the Moscow Expocenter, between April 23 and 26, the president of the Informatics and Communications Business Group (GEIC), Ariadne Plasencia, told the Prensa Latina agency.
“We initially identified the event as one of the most important carried out in our sectorand as a good opportunity to actively participate and have a Cuban presence,” he explained.
The Cuban delegation is made up of representatives of the companies Cubatel SA, Computer Applications Company, Desoft, MoviTel, RadioCuba, Segurmática, Solintel SA, Aicros and Copextel, as well as the state MSMEs ITcódigo SURL and Aitec. Representatives of the Matanzas Scientific and Technological Park, the Havana Scientific and Technological Park and the University of Computer Sciences also participate.
The Director of Information and Communication of the GEIC, Dianelis Borrego, told Prensa Latina that the Cuban exhibition, which will seek more than offer, “has been very well received.” This Thursday, executives from Russian companies dedicated to IT visited the Cuban stand, as part of Havana’s declared strategy of looking for suppliers in this forum, fundamentally among russian companies and Chinese.
Borrego highlighted the meeting of Cuban officials with the Russian company PK, possible supplier of fiber optic network solutions, and other supplies for cable laying; as well as the meeting at the headquarters of the Economic Commission of the Eurasian Union.
In the context of the event, the Cuban delegation organized a tribute act before the monument erected to Fidel Castro in the Moscow district of Sókol.
The Russian High Technologies Week Sviaz 2024 has the participation of 684 companies from nine countries: Russia, Belarus, Iran Kazakhstan, China, Cyprus, North Korea, Cuba and Singapore. China and Iran occupy large pavilions.
According to the organizers of the event, in this 36th edition the participation of foreign firms increased, of which more than 250 attend for the first time.
Contacts, both business, political and military, are increasingly common between Havana and Moscow. This week, Russia is the guest of honor country at the International Construction Fair. In this context, there was a meeting between Cuban officials from the construction sector and the Russian business delegation, headed by the president of the National Association of Builders of Russia, Antón Nicolahevich Glushkov.
In this sense, the Russian Minister of the Interior, Vladimir Kolokóltsev, when meeting this Monday in Moscow with his Cuban counterpart, Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, stressed that the Cuban regime “continues to be a faithful partner of Russia“.
In March, Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas Ruíz held a meeting in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin’s advisor on economic issues, Maxim Oreshkin. At the meeting they agreed increase the presence of Russian companies in Cuba, particularly in the tourism sector.
Cabrisas Ruíz also met with Anton Zubijin, vice general director of Sales at STM and general director of the Sinara Commercial House, Russian companies that participate in projects linked to the Cuban railway sector. At the meeting, in which Zubijin declared the intention to expand the companies’ presence in Cuba, the delegations followed up on ongoing business and discussed possible actions to “overcome the difficulties that have arisen.”
Likewise, the Cuban official held a meeting with Yuri Borisov, general director of the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, an old ally of Havana with whom The authorities of the regime “have worked together based on economic, commercial, financial relations and bilateral cooperation”said the state media Cubadebate.
