• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 10 / 01 / 2010

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Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao expressed their country's interest in broadening its bilateral ties with Cuba, the Prensa Latina news agency reported Wednesday.

The message, in the form of a letter to Raúl Castro, was delivered to Vice President Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, who is visiting Beijing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

(PHOTO SHOWS Cabrisas with Dai Bingguo, the Chinese Communist Party's director of foreign affairs, during a reception Tuesday at the Cuban Embassy.)

"We are ready to work with our Cuban comrades to deepen our traditional friendship and unceasingly reinforce and broaden the friendly and mutually advantageous cooperation between China and Cuba," the message said.

A similar message was expressed to Cabrisas by Zhou Yongkang, a senior Party leader who until 2007 was Minister of Public Security.

Source: /miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/#ixzz112eyC0NJ