NEW YORK.- President Raúl Castro Ruz held several bilateral meetings, yesterday September 25, as part of his work agenda for this visit to the United States which began Thursday, primarily focused on his participation in the Post-2015 Development Goals Summit and the high level debate scheduled for the United Nations General Assembly.
Around noon, he held a cordial meeting with Felipe Nyussi, President of Mozambique, a country with which Cuba has longstanding ties.
Later, at the headquarters of Cuba’s mission to the UN, he met with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who recently visited the island with a delegation of business people – an opportunity to continue discussion of plans made to develop the relationship between Cuba and the state of New York.
The President also met a bipartisan group of U.S. Congress members who support a change in their country’s policy toward Cuba, including Senators
Patrick Leahy and Heidi Heilkamp, as well as Representatives Barbara Lee, James McGovern, Thomas Emmer, Karen Bass, Gregory Meeks, Nydia Velázquez, Charles Rangel and José Serrano.
To close out his work day, Raúl met with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, accompanied by Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez, the country’s representative in the UN, Rafael Ramírez, and First Combatant Cilia Flores.
