2/18/08

Ecuatorial Guinea president ends Cuba visit


Ecuatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo winds up Sunday an over 48-hour visit to Cuba, in which he inked two accords and met with First Vice President Raul Castro.
"We and our peoples are greater friends, and we help each other,"
Raul Castro told press after signing two agreements between both governments.
They were the reciprocal lifting of visa requirement in diplomatic, official and service passports, and cooperation between the foreign affairs ministries of Cuba and Equatorial Guinea.
The Cuban first vice president pointed out that Nguema Mbasogo's recent visit to the island took place in September 2006 to attend the 14th Non-Aligned Countries Movement Summit.
Meanwhile, the African statesman said that Cuba is a brother country with which his nation has had excellent relations and signed several health cooperation accords.
"Cubans are remembered as heroes in our country and throughout Africa," the visitor stated during a visit to the Pantheon of those Fallen in Defense of the Homeland at Havana's Colon cemetery, where he laid a wreath.
Nguema Mbasogo also paid tribute to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti at the monument erected at the capital's Revolution Square.

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