Cuban First VP Meets with PM from the Cape Verde Islands
The First Vice-president of the Cuban Council of State and Ministers, José R. Machado Ventura, and the Prime Minister from the Cape Verde Islands, José María Pereira Neves, held official talks in Havana on Tuesday morning.
The two leaders reviewed the development of bilateral relations, particularly in the sphere of cooperation, and agreed to continue strengthening the historic ties existing between the two nations. Likewise, they exchanged their points of view on regional and international issues of common interest.
Present in the meeting were, for Cuba, Health Minister José R. Balaguer; Cuban Communist Party’s Central Committee member Fernando Remírez de Estenoz; Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque; and the Minister for Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, Rodrigo Malmierca, among others.
Accompanying Pereira Neves were the Minister for the Environment, Rural development and Marine Resources, José María Veiga; the Secretary of State for Education, Octavio Tavares; the Secretary for Foreign Business, Jorge Borges; Cape Verde ambassador to Cuba, Crispina Gomes; Health General Director Jacquelin Pereira; and Pedro Graciano de Carvalho, Advisor to the Prime Minister.
The delegation from Cape Verde will fulfil a wide-ranging schedule of meetings and visits to places of economic and social interest.
Prior to the official talks, Pereira Neves paid tribute to Cuba’s National Hero José Martí, by laying a wreath by the monument located at the Memorial dedicated to this patriot at Havana’s Revolution Square.
After his arrival in the Cuban capital on Monday, the Prime Minister from Cape Verde thanked the government and the people of the archipelago for their contribution to the social and economic development of his country, located in the Atlantic Ocean, especially in the fields of education, health, and agriculture.
He also described as outstanding Cuba’s participation in the liberation struggles of that African state front Portuguese colonialism.
At present, 52 Cubans are giving their services in the Cape Verde Islands, 37 of them in the health sector, while 47 youngsters from that nation are studying in Cuban educational centers.
Cuba has expressed its gratitude toward the favourable vote of Cape Verde to the resolutions against the US blockade of Cuba, overwhelmingly approved at the UN General Assembly.
The two leaders reviewed the development of bilateral relations, particularly in the sphere of cooperation, and agreed to continue strengthening the historic ties existing between the two nations. Likewise, they exchanged their points of view on regional and international issues of common interest.
Present in the meeting were, for Cuba, Health Minister José R. Balaguer; Cuban Communist Party’s Central Committee member Fernando Remírez de Estenoz; Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque; and the Minister for Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, Rodrigo Malmierca, among others.
Accompanying Pereira Neves were the Minister for the Environment, Rural development and Marine Resources, José María Veiga; the Secretary of State for Education, Octavio Tavares; the Secretary for Foreign Business, Jorge Borges; Cape Verde ambassador to Cuba, Crispina Gomes; Health General Director Jacquelin Pereira; and Pedro Graciano de Carvalho, Advisor to the Prime Minister.
The delegation from Cape Verde will fulfil a wide-ranging schedule of meetings and visits to places of economic and social interest.
Prior to the official talks, Pereira Neves paid tribute to Cuba’s National Hero José Martí, by laying a wreath by the monument located at the Memorial dedicated to this patriot at Havana’s Revolution Square.
After his arrival in the Cuban capital on Monday, the Prime Minister from Cape Verde thanked the government and the people of the archipelago for their contribution to the social and economic development of his country, located in the Atlantic Ocean, especially in the fields of education, health, and agriculture.
He also described as outstanding Cuba’s participation in the liberation struggles of that African state front Portuguese colonialism.
At present, 52 Cubans are giving their services in the Cape Verde Islands, 37 of them in the health sector, while 47 youngsters from that nation are studying in Cuban educational centers.
Cuba has expressed its gratitude toward the favourable vote of Cape Verde to the resolutions against the US blockade of Cuba, overwhelmingly approved at the UN General Assembly.
Source:
ACN
Date:
14/01/2009