Jakarta, March 14.- At the headquarters of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, an exchange took place with directors of this institution and diplomatic representatives from Central America and the Caribbean.
The opening words were given by the Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce, Ms. Shinta Kamdani, who announced the creation of the Committee for Central America, Cuba and CARICOM, which will allow the Chamber to focus on business identification with this region. Likewise, the Vice President recalled her visit to Cuba, within the framework of the Havana International Fair in 2019, noting that it was her last visit abroad before the current Pandemic.
For her part, the Ambassador of Cuba in Indonesia, Cra. Tania Velázquez López, intervened to present the opportunities for cooperation and business between Indonesia and Cuba, especially in the fields of biotechnology, pharmacy, agriculture and export of medical and sports services.
Likewise, the Cuban diplomat elaborated on the experience accumulated by the Island since the 1980s in the area of biotechnology and the possibility of cooperating with Indonesia with the five own vaccines against covid-19 produced, which allowed the country, the only that currently vaccinates its pediatric population from two years of age, deploy a mass vaccination and that the last wave of the omicron variant was less severe than expected.
Likewise, Velázquez López, referred to the possibility of assessing future cooperation with the Cuban treatment for diabetic foot ulcers, HEBERPROT-P, given its positive impact on the care of patients with ulcers in advanced stages and at high risk of amputation.
On that occasion, the Ambassador commented on the interest of a delegation made up of representatives of the Government and businessmen who will visit the island soon and which will enable Indonesian companies to identify business opportunities on the island, in correspondence with the Portfolio of Business Opportunities promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment of Cuba.
Finally, the Ambassador classified as relevant the decision of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to grant Cuban scientists, creators of the anticovid-19 vaccines, the "Medal for Inventors", which is granted by that international organization, recognition for the Cuban science for its impact on the life of the country and beyond its borders.
Despite the sickening siege of the United States Governments, for more than 60 years and intensifying more and more, 10 products of Cuban science have the Gold Medal of the World Intellectual Property Organization, from the first in 1989 to the last in 2015.
Embassy of Cuba in Indonesia.