Mr Daniel Aldama, President of the Agency for Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies (AENTA), and Mr Dazhu Yang, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation, have signed Cuba’s Country Programme Framework (CPF) for the period of 2018–2023 on 1 June 2017. They were accompanied by HE Ms Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, Minister of Science, Technology and Environment as well as HE Mr Juan Antonio Fernandez Palacios, Resident Representative to the IAEA. A CPF is the frame of reference for the medium-term planning of technical cooperation between a Member State and the IAEA and identifies priority areas where the transfer of nuclear technology and technical cooperation resources will be directed to support national development goals.
Cuba has been an IAEA Member State since 1957. Its 2018–2023 CPF identifies five priority areas:
- nuclear safety,
- food and agriculture,
- human health and nutrition,
- water and the environment,
- energy and industry.
