Havana, July 21 (RHC)-- The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, held a meeting this Saturday with Viacheslav Volodin, president of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia, 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 this Saturday afternoon with Viacheslav Volodin. , president of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia, who is visiting the Greater Antilles.
This new visit has “a lot of significance,” considered the Head of State, and expresses the excellent state of political relations and also in the economic-commercial sphere, while maintaining “exchange and political dialogue in both directions to the fullest.” high level".
After remembering his recent stay in that sister nation, last May, on the occasion of commemorating the 79th anniversary of Victory Day against fascism, the dignitary asked to send Russian President Vladimir Putin “an affectionate greeting on behalf of the Army General and in my own."
He then recognized the significance 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 Hernández, one more step to continue "strengthening relations between both parliaments.
In a special way, the Cuban president commented to the visitor on several topics on the agenda that was developed as part of the recently concluded Third Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of People's Power, in its 10th Legislature, which included, he said, the approval of several laws, as a sign of the intense legislative work carried out by our Parliament.
For his part, Viacheslav Volodin conveyed greetings from President Putin to the Army General and Díaz-Canel himself.
Likewise, he reaffirmed the willingness to maintain the partnership that has been established between both 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 People's Power; Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, as well as other Cuban parliamentarians and officials from the Foreign Ministry. (Presidency)
