Levofloxacin is a drug used to treat pneumonia, bacterial skin infections, bronchitis and other diseases, according to the report.
The Ahmedabad-based Aculife said on its website that it manufactures “intravenous antibiotics including general and advanced molecules” like levofloxacin. The reluctance of banks to handle payments related to Cuba has also affected a development project with a climate change dimension, Guterres said in the report.
It was reported in March that Ankur Scientific Energy Technologies had said it could not export to Cuba equipment for a gasification plant that uses rice husks because five Indian banks had refused to carry out a transfer from the office of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Cuba to it, he said.
The Vadodara-based company had reported that the SBI refused to receive the UNDP payment “because the transaction is related to a project implemented in Cuba”, the report said.
“It has been impossible to fulfill the payment to the supplier and the implementation of the project has been delayed.”
It is “an ongoing development project that aims to implement measures to adapt to climate change in food production, a gasification plant that uses rice husks”, the UN chief said.
Ankur Scientific says on its website that its technology converts various waste products into combustible gas that can be burned to produce energy for different uses.
India has opposed the US embargo on Cuba enacted after communists under Fidel Castro came to power in 1961.
Guterres said in his report that India informed the UN that it “has consistently opposed any unilateral measure by countries that impinge on the sovereignty of another country. These include any attempt to extend the application of a country’s laws extraterritorially to other sovereign nations
