Cuba names new envoy to RI

Cuba names new envoy to RI

JAKARTA: Cuba has appointed one of its diplomats, who has vast
experience in Asian affairs, as its new ambassador to Indonesia,
Cuba's new charge d'affaires said in Jakarta.

"Ambassador-designate Jorge Leon Cruz will arrive in Jakarta
soon," Ramon Alonso Medina told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.

Cruz is presently working at the Cuban Foreign Ministry's Asia
and Oceania division in Havana.

Medina, Cuba's former ambassador to the Philippines (1999-
2005), said the previous Cuban ambassador to Indonesia Miguel
Angel Ramirez Ramoz departed Indonesia in November 2005 after the
end of his tenure in Jakarta. Ramirez came to Indonesia in
February 2002.

Since the Cuban mission in Jakarta has only one diplomat,
Havana appointed Medina, who arrived in Jakarta on Nov. 25, 2005,
as the charge d'affaires until the new ambassador arrives in the
country. -- JP