• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 08 / 31 / 2010

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HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 30 ago (acn) Army General Raul Castro, President of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers, met on Monday afternoon at the Council of State with his counterpart from Guinea Bissau, Malam Bacai Sanha.

After the meeting, the two heads of state held official talks, in which First Vice-president Jose Ramon Machado Ventura and the foreign ministers from Cuba and Guinea Bissau, Bruno Rodriguez and Adelino Mano Queta, respectively, also participated.

As part of the program of his official visit, which will conclude on Tuesday, Bacai Sanha laid a wreath by the monument to Cuba’s National Hero Jose Marti at the memorial named after him, located at Revolution Square.

He also paid tribute to outstanding revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral at the park
devoted to African National Heroes, and at Havana’s Colon Cemetery he paid homage to the Cuban internationalist combatants who fell in heroic deeds for the liberation of Africa.

This the first visit of Bacai Sanha to Cuba as head of state, since he was proclaimed President of Guinea Bissau on July 29, 2009.

The African head of state traveled to Cuba accompanied by Ministers of State Soares Sambu, counselor for Political and Diplomatic Affairs and Angelo Agusto Regalla, who is also the Presidential Spokesman, among other officials.
 
Source: ACN