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Picture courtesy by “Xunta de Galicia” of Xunta’s President, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo (i), and Cuban President Raúl Castro, during a meeting at Havana, Cuba. EFE/Xunta de Galicia.
Havana, Dec 8 (EFE).- Cuban President Raul Castro met in Havana with the top leaders of two of Spain’s political parties – Cayo Lara of the United Left, or IU, and Jose Luis Centella of the Communist Party of Spain, or PCE – who were on a visit to the island at the invitation of the Cuban Communist Party, or PCC, state television reported.
Castro and the IU and PCE leaders engaged in a “broad exchange” of views on Saturday on unspecified matters of national and international interest.
They also were reported to have agreed “on the willingness to continue strengthening the relations of friendship and cooperation that exist” between the PCC, whose first secretary is Raul Castro, the PCE and IU, state television said.
Also attending the meeting with Castro were the general secretary of the communists in the Spanish region of Andalusia, Jose Manuel Mariscal, the PCE’s secretary of international cooperation, Gloria Aguilar, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and the head of the PCC’s international relations, Jose Ramon Balaguer.
Lara and Centella had been in Cuba since last Monday on a visit that ended on Saturday, Cuban news agencies reported.
Spanish media accredited to the island were not allowed access to cover the Spanish political leaders’ activities.
The visit of the IU and PCE leaders to the island coincided – although different agendas were in place – with the official visit to Cuba by the president of the government of the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, with the conservative Popular Party, who also met with Castro on Saturday.
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