HAVANA, November 8. /TASS/. Cuba hails the final declaration of the BRICS Summit in Kazan and is confident in the group’s successful work, Cuba’s Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas said.

"We welcome the final declaration of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, which envisaged Cuba and some other countries’ accession to the association as partner countries," he said at a meeting with his visiting Russian counterpart, Dmitry Chernyshenko. "We believe in the successful work of this association, which is currently chaired by Russia."

Cabrisas and Chernyshenko are co-chairs of the Russian-Cuban intergovernmental commission on trade-and-economic and scientific-and-technical cooperation.