Eumelio Caballero Rodríguez, Ambassador of Cuba to Qatar.
The Cuban community is happy and satisfied here in Qatar not only due to formal treatment they receive from official institutions but also due to very friendly environment they enjoy in their everyday life, said Ambassador of Cuba, Eumelio Caballero Rodríguez.
“I can say that this is a common sentiment. In Cuba, we love much the Qatari people and admire their dynamism and strong sentiments of pertinence and patriotism, their love for freedom, independence and national sovereignty. These are very strong common values between Cubans and Qataris,” he said.
About the number of Cuban community in Qatar, he said: “The Cuban community in Qatar is small, including the health professionals of the Cuban Hospital in Dukhan; less than six hundred people and they are working in various services.”
The Cuban Embassy recently marked the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and 30th anniversary of the diplomatic relations with Qatar at the Diplomatic Club.
Rodríguez in an interview with The Peninsula said: “We also commemorated the 30th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the State of Qatar. Thirty years of uninterrupted relations of cooperation and friendship between our two peoples and countries.”
“An example of the existing cooperation between our two countries is the Cuban Hospital of Dukhan, inaugurated in January 2012, where approximately 500 Cuban health professionals currently work, offering 21 different specialties and guaranteeing an excellent service to a growing number of Qatari citizens, expatriates and residents,” he noted.
In the economic, financial and commercial fields, the Ambassador said, both countries have also advanced although ‘we cannot be totally satisfied with the results achieved since there are unlimited opportunities for the investment of Qatari capital throughout the country in sectors such as the tourism industry, particularly in the construction of hotels and marinas; real estate, finance, transportation, agriculture, mining, exploration and production of oil and renewable energy development.’
In addition to the recent opening of Qatar National Bank representation office in Havana, potential Qatari investors could benefit from the advantageous conditions that offer the new Cuban Foreign Investment Law.
“To these facilities offered by the Cuban government to attract foreign investments to strengthen the economic development plans of the country, we must add the additional advantage of having a highly qualified workforce and the recognized hospitality of the Cuban people, in a climate of stability and total security. In the particular case of potential Qataris investors, it should be noted that they have a good reputation in Cuba,” Rodríguez said
