The Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel was received this Friday by his host Xi Jinping, with whom held a meeting in Beijing. Jinping stated that China “will do everything possible to provide support” to the Cubans, who “face great challenges.” The meeting left twelve signed documents.
“No matter how the international situation changes, China’s commitment to long-term friendship with Cuba will not change. China’s determination to support Cuba in its quest for socialism will not change. China’s willingness to work with Cuba to safeguard international equity and justice and oppose hegemony and power politics will not change,” Xi Jinping said, as highlighted a cable from the agency Xinhua.
With the common purpose of continuing to strengthen excellent political relations and deepening economic, commercial, financial and cooperation ties, official talks were held between the presidents @DiazCanelB and Xi Jinping.#DiazCanelInBeijing pic.twitter.com/ofvWbDO5vu
— Cuban Foreign Ministry (@CubaMINREX) November 25, 2022
The twelve documents signed include a consultation plan between foreign ministries, a memorandum of understanding for the promotion of the New Silk Roads, the Asian giant’s plan that seeks to build infrastructure in more than 60 countries, and a memorandum for the “strengthening of economic and commercial cooperation” between both nations.
Likewise, a ceremony was organized for the delivery and reception of raw materials, school uniforms, cash donations, medical supplies and medicines for Cuba, which is going through one of the worst economic moments in decades, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and marked now by a serious energy crisis.
Díaz-Canel mentioned the nation’s economic crisis and indicated that he has “the support of friendly countries like China.” He also conveyed “cordial greetings from his friend Army General Raúl Castro” and recalled that Fidel Castro highlighted “the capacity and firmness” of the current president of China, just on a day that marks six years since the death of the former leader Cuban.
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The Caribbean ruler assured that he values ”very positively” the “theoretical and practical contributions to the construction of socialism” of Xi Jinping at the head of the Communist Party while the Chinese leader expressed Beijing’s willingness to “deepen mutual political trust and broaden practical cooperation” with Havana and noted that bilateral relations are “an exemplary case of solidarity and cooperation between socialist countries and sincere support between developing countries.”
On his first day of official visit, Díaz-Canel has also met with Prime Minister Li Kequiangy and with Li Zhanshu, president of the National People’s Assembly.
The Cuban’s previous visit to China took place in November 2018, lasted three days and during it he met with Xi, with whom he agreed to promote “friendship” ties between the two countries and several bilateral agreements were signed, the agency recalls. efe.
Díaz-Canel arrived in Beijing, invited by Xi Jinping, after visiting Moscow and Ankara in recent days, where he met both his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The current stay in China takes place in an “anti-covid bubble”, a closed-circuit modality in which visitors have no contact with the outside world, in compliance with the strict restrictions that China has maintained since the beginning of the pandemic.
Following the health protocol of the Chinese authorities, Pdte @DiazCanelB spoke via videoconference with the group of the State Mission of #Cuba. He addressed the current context of the Island, results of the visit and new efforts based on the agreements reached pic.twitter.com/27FfZJtV8x
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) November 25, 2022
Díaz-Canel’s trip to China is the first by a Latin American president since the end of the XX Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held in October and in which Xi Jinping was re-elected for a third term as Secretary General, unprecedented among his immediate predecessors. .
Cuba was, in 1960, the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, which had been created in 1949, a moment highlighted by Xi Jinping.
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