“This occasion serves as an opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to strengthening the bonds of friendship, solidarity, and cooperation between our nations,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote on its account on the social media platform X.

Algeria’s National Liberation Revolution brought a new dimension to the concept of national sovereignty and marked the culmination of a long struggle, during which the Algerian people demonstrated their deep attachment to their land, their history, and their firmly rooted identity.

The Caribbean island and Algeria established diplomatic relations on October 17, 1962. Notably, it was in this African nation that Cuba’s international medical cooperation program—which has since expanded to dozens of countries across nearly every continent—first began.

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