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CUBA SEES GROWING TIES WITH MALAYSIA IN THE FUTURE
JOHOR BAHARU (Malaysia), Feb 24 (Bernama) -– Cuba sees growing ties with
Malaysia in future as it celebrates its 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations
with this country.
"I am very sure that our relations will remain strong and grow more and more
in the coming years," said its ambassador to Malaysia, Carlos A. Amores.
The third resident ambassador to this country was met by reporters after
paying a visit to the Tanjung Kupang Memorial in Jalan Kebun Teh here Wednesday.
Havana and Kuala Lumpur sealed ties in 1975, at the time of the Cold War
ideological divide, and have moved forward to enjoy increasingly fruitful and
meaningful relations in many areas -- politics, economics, trade, medical,
education, sports and people-to-people relations.
Amores, 43, said that bilateral relations picked up, especially at the
political level, in the 90s which saw Cuba open its embassy in Kuala Lumpur in
1997, and Malaysia followed by setting up an embassy in Havana in February 2001.
He was optimistic that economic ties would pick up as well, and expected
trade ties to be strengthened.
The Tanjung Kupang Memorial was set up for victims of the 1977 Malaysia
Airlines flight 653 crash in which all 93 passengers and seven crew perished.
Also killed in the incident were the Cuban ambassador to Japan, Mario Garcia
Inchaustegui, who was accredited to Malaysia at that time, and his wife, Gladys.
The flight took off from the Bayan Lepas International Airport in Penang at
7.21pm on Dec 4, 1977, to Subang Airport but was alleged to have been ordered by
hijackers to head for Singapore before it plunged tail first at about 8.15pm
into the mangrove forest of Tanjung Kupang in Gelang Patah.
Malaysian prominent figures who were killed in the crash were then
agriculture minister Ali Ahmad and then Public Works Department
director Mahfuz Khalid.
Amores, his wife, Lianys Dorres, and two daughters, director of Kuok
Brothers Sdn Bhd Frank S.K Goon, who represented Tan Sri Robert Kuok, and Cuban
embassy officials spent about half-an-hour paying their respects and laying
wreaths at the memorial.
-- BERNAMA
Malaysia in future as it celebrates its 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations
with this country.
"I am very sure that our relations will remain strong and grow more and more
in the coming years," said its ambassador to Malaysia, Carlos A. Amores.
The third resident ambassador to this country was met by reporters after
paying a visit to the Tanjung Kupang Memorial in Jalan Kebun Teh here Wednesday.
Havana and Kuala Lumpur sealed ties in 1975, at the time of the Cold War
ideological divide, and have moved forward to enjoy increasingly fruitful and
meaningful relations in many areas -- politics, economics, trade, medical,
education, sports and people-to-people relations.
Amores, 43, said that bilateral relations picked up, especially at the
political level, in the 90s which saw Cuba open its embassy in Kuala Lumpur in
1997, and Malaysia followed by setting up an embassy in Havana in February 2001.
He was optimistic that economic ties would pick up as well, and expected
trade ties to be strengthened.
The Tanjung Kupang Memorial was set up for victims of the 1977 Malaysia
Airlines flight 653 crash in which all 93 passengers and seven crew perished.
Also killed in the incident were the Cuban ambassador to Japan, Mario Garcia
Inchaustegui, who was accredited to Malaysia at that time, and his wife, Gladys.
The flight took off from the Bayan Lepas International Airport in Penang at
7.21pm on Dec 4, 1977, to Subang Airport but was alleged to have been ordered by
hijackers to head for Singapore before it plunged tail first at about 8.15pm
into the mangrove forest of Tanjung Kupang in Gelang Patah.
Malaysian prominent figures who were killed in the crash were then
agriculture minister Ali Ahmad and then Public Works Department
director Mahfuz Khalid.
Amores, his wife, Lianys Dorres, and two daughters, director of Kuok
Brothers Sdn Bhd Frank S.K Goon, who represented Tan Sri Robert Kuok, and Cuban
embassy officials spent about half-an-hour paying their respects and laying
wreaths at the memorial.
-- BERNAMA
