Havana, November 10 (RHC)-- The Cuban Minister of Higher Education (MES), José Ramón Saborido Loidi, is in the Russian Federation to meet with local senior officials to strengthen bilateral ties in science and education.

The MES reported on Twitter that Mr. Saborido met with Vyacheslav Nikonov, president of the main financier of the Program of 100 scholarships for Cuban students—the Russkiy Mir Foundation, Ivan Melnikov, first vice-president of the State Duma, and Konstantin Kosachov, deputy chairman of the Russian Federation Council.

They discussed relevant aspects of collaboration in higher education and science and kept strengthening the ties between the two countries.

On Tuesday, the Cuban minister held a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Valeri Falkov, and a Rossotrudnichestvo federal agency representative. He expressed his gratitude for the training of Cuban students in that nation