Cuban President Raul Castro held talks with Angolan Defense Minister Kundy Pahiana, who is visiting here.

Raul Castro sent greetings to Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the Angolan people in general, who are united with Cuban people in a steady friendship founded in the struggle to preserve independence of that country, he emphasized in a note read on television news.

Pahiana said he was happy to be in Cuba again and be able to hold talks with its leaders and many other comrades, added the same source.

The meeting at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party was attended by Army Corps General Julio Casas Regueiro and Leopoldo Cintra Frias minister and First Vice minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, respectively.