The best graduate of the ‘Marti’ Mongolia’s public school has received a free annual scholarship to study medicine in Cuba.

Raul Delgado Concepcion, Cuban ambassador to Ulaanbaatar, granted the certificate to acknowledge the high evaluation of to youngster B.Badamsed after she passed the required examinations.

B.Badamsed will travel to Cuba along with two other students selected by the Mongolian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport as part of the collaboration that the Caribbean island offers every year in the field of training human resources to this Asian country.

The José Martí public school, named in honor of the apostle of Cuban independence, teaches classes from the first to 12th grade and prepares students to continue their studies in higher education.

In 1960, Cuba was the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to establish bilateral ties with this nation and diplomatic relations were formally established 55 years ago.