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