At the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Party, Vice President Esteban Lazo Hernández received Arístides Raimundo Lima, president of the National Assembly of the Republic of Cape Verde who is visiting our country at the head of a large delegation at the invitation of the president of the Cuban Parliament.

During the fraternal encounter, they highlighted the historic links between the two peoples, forged during the heat of the struggle for independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde.

The two leaders reviewed the economic, political and social situation of their respective countries, as well as the negative effects that the current international financial crisis has had on their national economies, and championed the need to strengthen unity, integration and solidarity among the countries of the South.

Present on the Cuban side were Rodolfo Puente Ferro, head of the Africa Office of the International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the Party and Deputy Yenielys Regueiferos Linares.

Translated by Granma International