Cuban Top Army officer is in Moscow for talks
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- 04 / 12 / 2010
He was welcomed by Lt. Gen. Alexander Burutin, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff.
López Miera, who is also Vice Minister of the Cuban Armed Forces, plans to meet Tuesday with his Russian counterpart, Gen. Nikolai Yegorovich Makarov, "about the status of Russian -Cuban cooperation, the outlook for its expansion and the observance of the agreements" already made, Prensa Latina says.
Makarov visited (nmk) Cuba in mid-September 2009 to discuss the modernization of the Cuban armed forces under Russian auspices.
On Monday, the Cuban delegation plans to visit the General Staff's Military Academy and inspect a brigade that has been restructured under a reform in Russian Army organization.
The RIA-Novosti news agency identifies that unit as the Fifth Motorized Rifle Brigade, in the Moscow suburb of Alabino.
On Wednesday, the group will visit an armaments factory "where it will observe a demonstration of the advances of Russia's defense systems." The tour ends next Wednesday, April 14.
By: Renato Pérez Pizarro.
Source: The Miami Herald
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