The President of Russia Vladimir Putin during the 70th session of the UN General Assembly will hold a bilateral meeting with Chairman of the state Council of Cuba Raul Castro, it is reported in the materials for the visit of the President of the Russian Federation in new York.

Anniversary, 70th session of the General Assembly opened in new York on fifteen September. The Russian President will deliver a speech on September 28. First it was claimed that after the speech Putin will hold several meetings, among them with UN Secretary General ban Ki-moon, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the President of the United States of America Barack Obama. It was also noted that Pope Francis hopes to meet with Putin, and planned so-called " meetings on the feet."

"in the study is a large-scale trilateral project With the participation of Russia, Cuba and the UAE on the creation of a major transport hub, including the modernization of the Maritime port of Mariel and the construction of the base airfield in San Antonio de Los ba?os modern international airport with a cargo terminal ", - reported in the media.

"JSC" Zarubezhneft " is implementing a project to increase recovery and use of secondary production techniques in the field Boko de Jaruco ", - the document says.

"Russia welcomes the process of normalization of bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States. Cuba actively supported the Russian position on the Crimean issue and the situation in Ukraine, voted against the adopted March 27, 2014 decision of the UNGA " the Territorial integrity of Ukraine ", has voted consistently against the Georgian draft resolution " Status of internally displaced persons and immigrants from Abkhazia, Georgia and Tskhinvali region / South Ossetia, Georgia ", - stated in the materials.

two years Earlier, the Russian Federation and Cuba signed a Treaty on the settlement of the debt of Havana in front of Moscow on the credits granted in the period of the USSR.

"in 2014 the volume of Russian-Cuban trade turnover decreased in comparison with 2013 year by 12% to 163 million dollars ", - is informed in the report.

In the first half of 2015 the volume of trade increased by 3, 6% compared with the same period of 2014 and amounted to 76, 7 million dollars.

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