Diaz-Canel held talks with the Speaker of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia

Havana, July 21 (RHC) The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, met on Saturday with the Speaker of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia, Vyacheslav Volodin, who is visiting Cuba.

"Welcome, dear friend, it is a pleasure that you are in Cuba," said the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, during the meeting he held on Saturday afternoon with Vyacheslav Volodin, President of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia, who is visiting the largest of the Antilles.

According to the Head of State, this new visit is "very important", and expresses the excellent state of political relations and also in the economic-commercial field, while maintaining "exchanges and political dialogue in both directions at the highest level".

After recalling his last stay in this sister nation, last May, on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of the Victory over Fascism, the dignitary asked to convey to the Russian President Vladimir Putin "an affectionate greeting in the name of the General of the Army and in my own name".

He then recognized the importance of the meeting that the President of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia will hold with the member of the Political Bureau and President of the National Assembly of People's Power, Esteban Lazo Hernandez, as another step to continue "strengthening relations between the two parliaments".

In a special way, the Cuban President spoke about several issues of the agenda developed within the framework of the recently concluded Third Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People's Power, in its 10th Legislature, which, as he said, included the approval of several laws, as an example of the intense legislative work carried out by our Parliament.

For his part, Vyacheslav Volodin conveyed President Putin's greetings to the Army General and to Díaz-Canel himself, and reaffirmed the willingness to maintain the partnership that has been established between the two nations and the support to continue "the development of commercial relations, helping each other".

The Cuban President was accompanied by the member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz; Ana María Mari Machado, Vice President of the National Assembly of Popular Power; Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, as well as other Cuban parliamentarians and officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Presidency)