The meeting favors contacts with the president of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP, parliament), Esteban Lazo, who the day before spoke with legislators from Grenada and Russia, as well as from nations in Asia and Africa.
According to the Cuban Parliament, in a conversation with Dessima Williams and Leo Cato, presidents of the Senate and the House of Representatives of Grenada, respectively, Lazo highlighted the links of bilateral collaboration, forged in the historic friendship between the revolutionary leaders Fidel Castro and Maurice Bishop.
The head of the Cuban parliament also received Isaac Jean Claude Tshilumbayi Musawu, first vice president of the National Assembly of Congo, and the parliamentarian of the Republic of Zambia, Chanda Katotobwe, to whom he ratified the deep and unbreakable ties that unite Cuba with the African peoples.
The interlocutors recalled the friendship of Fidel Castro and other Cuban leaders with heroes of that continent, and the contribution of this Caribbean nation in the fight against colonialism, domination, racism and apartheid.
In a conversation with Chanthavong Senamadmonty, vice president of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Lao National Assembly, Lazo stressed the ties of friendship and solidarity that unite Cuba and that Asian nation, which began long before the date on which diplomatic relations were established on November 4, 1974.
The president of the Cuban Council of State also spoke with the general secretary of the United Left Movement (MIU) party of the Dominican Republic, José Miguel Mejía.
During the day, the vice president of the National Assembly, Ana María Mari Machado, held a fruitful dialogue with the member of the European Parliament, Irene Montero; accompanied by other Cuban parliamentarians, reported the ANPP.
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