OREANDA-NEWS. November 17, 2010. In the capital of Cuba the X session of Intergovernmental Ukrainian-Cuban commission on trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation came to its end.

According to the Head of Ukrainian part of Commission the Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Tikhonov, the meeting was an another important step towards deepening Ukrainian-Cuban trade-economic relations.

"Negotiations were held in a constructive and friendly atmosphere. We discussed a wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation. First of all it concerns the further increase of bilateral trade between our countries, strengthening cooperation in the economic sphere as well as in energy, machine building, aviation, agriculture, transport, health, tourism - Viktor Tikhonov said. He added that the decision was taken to enhance the legal framework, in particular, draft agreements on investment, agriculture and health, as well as a number of agreements in the transport sector were reviewed.

Viktor Tikhonov has expressed confidence that agreements will be implemented in practice and soon will bring positive results that will affect the volume of bilateral trade increasing.