MERIDA, Mexico – Russian State Duma Speaker Viacheslav Volodin arrived in Cuba this Saturday and held a meeting with President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Volodin said that his visit “is about the implementation of projects in the field of tourism, as well as the provision of resources,” according to statements posted on the Duma website.
For Díaz-Canel, on the other hand, it is a sign of the excellent relations that unite both countries in the political, economic and commercial spheres, as published in X.
Volodin arrived from Nicaragua where he had participated in the celebrations of the Daniel Ortega regime for the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista victory.
Volodin’s visit comes just over a month after the arrival of a nuclear submarine and two Russian navy ships to the port of Havana. will cause interest in the international press.
The Russian fleet, consisting of the frigate Gorshkov, the nuclear submarine Kazan, the oil tanker Pashin and the rescue tug Nikolai Chiker, arrived in Havana port on June 12 and remained there for five days.
Both Havana and Russia said the fleet’s visit was a gesture of cooperation between the two countries. Cuba’s Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) assured that “none of the ships carries nuclear weapons” and that the visit “strictly complies with international regulations.”
However, based on its own sources, the think tank Cuba Siglo 21 indicated that the Cuban regime had requested Russia to provide a nuclear military presence on the island this summer.
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