HAVANA, November 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's emergencies minister, Sergei Shoigu, arrived in the Cuban capital Havana late on Tuesday to discuss cooperation with his Cuban colleagues.
The Russian minister said he was expected to sign a cooperation plan, which would include "information exchange and training" for Cuban specialists.
"We would draft new projects and implement them," he told journalists.
Shoigu arrived to the Cuban capital from Nicaragua, where he launched a mine-clearing project.
"The Russian government has resolved to allocate a substantial sum to buy equipment and to train Nicaragua specialists to remove mines," Shoigu said, adding that, according to the program, Nicaraguan specialists would complete clearing the country's territory by 2010.
About 179,000 mines were laid in northern and central provinces in Nicaragua in 1980s, only 175,000 of them have so far been cleared.
The Russian delegation will fly to Venezuela from Cuba on Friday.
