Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution, received yesterday afternoon the Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus, H.E. Mr. Roman Golóvchenko, who is paying an official visit to Cuba.
The meeting ratified the excellent state of bilateral relations between Cuba and Belarus, marked by traditional ties of friendship and cooperation. Both sides expressed their mutual interest in continuing to develop ties, especially in the economic and commercial sphere.
Also participating on the Cuban side were members of the Political Bureau Manuel Marrero Cruz and General of the Army Corps Álvaro López Miera, Prime Minister and Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, respectively, as well as Jose Ángel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health, and Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment.
On the Belarusian side, the distinguished visitor was accompanied by Alexander Egorov, Deputy Head of the President's Administration; Sergey Lukashevich, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Valery Baranovsky, Ambassador of Belarus to Cuba; and Dmitry Derevinsky, Director for Latin America of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
IN UNITY WE CONSOLIDATE OUR FORCES
"This visit ratifies all the will we have on both sides to continue expanding, strengthening and developing our bilateral relations," assured yesterday the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, when he also received Golóvchenko.
In the meeting, at the Havana Convention Palace, the Head of State valued that the visit "is a continuity of the meetings we have had with President Aleksandr Lukashenko, in two trips we have made to Belarus, and in the last Summit of countries of the Eurasian Union," said Díaz-Canel, who sent a warm message to his counterpart, and reiterated his invitation to Cuba.
He referred to the collaboration "in the fields of food production and in the biotechnological and pharmaceutical industry," and recalled that "recently, the Belarusian regulatory entity approved the Cuban vaccine Cimavax-egf, against lung cancer, for use in his country."
He thanked "all the support given to us by your government and people in the fight against the blockade," and added that "Belarus has also joined the international condemnation against the inclusion of Cuba in a list of countries that allegedly support terrorism."
The President strongly condemned the interference of the United States Government in Belarus' affairs, and the unilateral sanctions that the United States also exercises against Belarus. "That is another situation that unites us as a government and as a people, because we are countries that are resisting imperial aggressiveness."
The Belarusian Prime Minister conveyed to his host the words of warm and fraternal greetings from the President of the Republic of Belarus. Our country "remembers very well your visit (in 2019), which we could say is historic, to the Republic of Belarus, which gave impetus to a new cycle of our economic and trade cooperation."
After referring to the multiple sanctions that are adopted daily against his nation, Roman Golovchenko assured that, in the face of them, "we unite, we consolidate our forces, together with other countries, as is the example of Cuba, and in this way we are moving forward to defend our people."
