• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 08 / 29 / 2010

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Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez met on Thursday with his counterpart from the Republic of Paraguay, Hector Lacognata, who is on an official visit to our country to participate in the sixth bilateral meeting of consultation mechanisms.

The two foreign ministers held fraternal talks in Havana

During this, his second trip to the island as the Paraguayan Foreign Minister Lacognata reiterated his government’s opposition to the US blockade against the Caribbean island, and joined the demand for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the United States.

Bruno Rodríguez underscored that this was an opportunity to identify new common objectives for cooperation in various spheres and sent fraternal greetings to President Fernando Lugo on behalf of Cuba.

During the meeting, held at the Foreign Ministry, the two ministers recalled the historic bonds uniting our two peoples, re-established in 1999, and agreed that political and diplomatic links are living a moment of great significance in the their history.

At present, there are Cuba 727 scholarship students from the South American nation studying in Cuba, and over 8 000 Paraguayans have learned how to read and write by way of pilot plans of the Cuban Yes I Can literacy teaching method.

The delegation accompanying the Paraguayan foreign minister is made up by Roberto Benítez, director general for Bilateral Policy, and Gustavo Gómez Comas, director for Foreign Trade and Investment, among other officials from that country.

By Olga Díaz

Source: www.periodico26.cu/