Cuban President’s Tour: Reunion with Friends of all Time
Havana, Nov 12 (Prensa Latina) Russia, North Korea, China, Vietnam and Laos, five visits to those countries of the Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, cemented in just two weeks old and valuable relations, confirming that times pass, but the real ones friends are left.The Cuban president made a brief stop in France, where he met with the Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, and with the Director General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay.
From there he traveled on Friday 2 to Russia, where he held official talks with his counterpart from that country, Vladimir Putin.
He also met with Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, the headlines of the Duma (Lower House), Vyacheslav Volodin, and the Senate, Valentina Matvienko, the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov and the Patriarch of Moscow and all the Russians Kiril.
At the end of their stay in Moscow, Diaz-Canel and Putin signed a joint statement in which they reaffirmed the strategic partnership between their countries, condemned the interventionism and advocated a multi-polar world.
The visit left the balance of the agreement of a greater participation of Russia in projects related to energy, transport, pharmaceutical, metallurgy, culture and humanities.
At the start of the Asian leg of his tour, the Cuban president arrived at noon on Sunday 4 to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), where he received a massive popular reception at the airport and the main avenues of Pyongyang.
In addition to holding official talks with the chairman of the State Committee of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un, Diaz-Canel met more than once with him and renewed the friendship between the two nations.
Our relations are historical and are based on mutual respect and admiration, founded on the friendship of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and the great leader Kim Il-sung, he said.
The Cuban president also met with the president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, Kim Yong Nam, and with Prime Minister Pak Pong Ju.
The respective delegations signed cooperation agreements in areas such as tourism, education and public health.
When he left, he wrote in his Twitter account: ‘The delegation of #Cuba says goodbye to the beautiful # RepúbicaPopularDemocráticaDeCorea, to which we thank their unwavering condemnation of the blockade, a cruel and unjust policy that also suffers the Korean people for sanctions against their government #NoMasBlock ‘.
In China, Díaz-Canel attended the first International Exposition of Imports in Shanghai, attended by more than three thousand local and foreign companies.
In the Asian giant he was received by President Xi Jinping; Prime Minister Li Keqiang; and the President of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Li Zhanshu.
After the official talks, the parties signed agreements to increase production capacity in prioritized collaboration projects and the granting of a Chinese loan that will support the acquisition of construction equipment for the renewable energy and tourism sectors, among others.
Diaz-Canel arrived in Vietnam almost at midnight on Thursday 8 and the following day held official talks with the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President of this country, Nguyen Phu Trong, who imposed the Order of Ho Chi Minh.
The two presidents also witnessed the signing of the trade agreement that over the next few years will govern the operations of the two countries in this area.
In Hanoi, Diaz-Canel was also received by the Prime Minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and the head of the National Assembly, Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.
On Saturday 10, he traveled to Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam and its main economic, industrial and financial center, and from there he flew directly to the neighboring Lao People’s Democratic Republic (RDPL).
In Vientiane held official talks with the president and general secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, Bounnhang Vorachith.
Both also witnessed the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Education and Sports of the RDPL and the National Institute of Physical Education, Sports and Recreation of the Antillean nation.
Members of its delegations also signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation between the Bank of the RDPL and the Central Bank of Cuba.
Diaz-Canel also met with Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and the head of the National Assembly, Pany Yathotou.
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