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Cuban vice president discuss ways to expand cooperation with IAEA chief

Xinhua, November 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

Cuba's first Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday met with Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), exploring ways to further cooperation.

During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral cooperation on human health, livestock health, environment protection and others, and discussed how to expand cooperation in the near future.

On several occasions, the international nuclear energy watchdog IAEA has acknowledged Cuba's contribution to and cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and the training of its experts, Cuban media reported.

Cuba is a member of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, or the Treaty of Tlatelolco, and of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Amano arrived here on Sunday for a three-day visit to the Caribbean country. Endi