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• 04 / 16 / 2010

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Army Corps General Alvaro Lopez Miera, Deputy Minister of the General Staff of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, was decorated on Thursday in Moscow by the Russian Association of Veterans of Angola (UVA).

Lopez Miera, a member of the Politburo of the Cuban Communist Party and a Hero of the Republic of Cuba, was also given the honorary membership of that institution, the Granma newspaper reports.
 
During the ceremony, the leadership of UVA said that it considered the visitor a symbol of what the people of the Caribbean island and its armed forces did in the Southern Cone of Africa.
 
"We would like to thank the Cuban people for the mere fact of existing. What Cuba is showing to the rest of humanity is an example of dignity, of historic truth and resistance", underlined the leadership of the Russian entity.
 
For his part, Lopez Miera said: "As I told the head of the Russian General Staff, Nikolai Makarov, during our official meeting, with the actions of our troops and peoples we contributed to prevent that Apartheid continued to exist to the present day."
 
Later, the Army Corps General placed a wreath before the eternal flame to the Unknown Soldier, located by the Kremlin’s walls, and visited the Lenin Mausoleum.
 
Lopez Miera is heading a delegation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces now on a visit to Russia, and part of its members toured military enterprises.

Source: ACN