Havana, June 21 (RHC)-- India´s President Ram Nath Kovind arrives this Thursday in Cuba to pay an official visit.

The Indian leader´s agenda includes a meeting with his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel, as well as the signing of agreements in biotechnology and traditional and alternative medicine

In an interview with Prensa Latina news agency, Partha Satpathy, Deputy Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, said that Kovind's visit, shows the importance that New Delhi is attributing to the island.

Satpathy said that both India and Cuba are important partners in the global South-South cooperation and noted that Kovind will interact with the new leadership of Cuba under President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who made an official visit to India in March 2015 in his previous position as Vice President of the Caribbean country.

Prior to his arrival in Cuba, the Indian leader visited Greece and Surinam.