Havana, November 13 (RHC) -- The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel received on Wednesday the Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Protection, Emergencies and Elimination of the Consequences of Natural Disasters, Aleksander Kurenkov, at the Palace of the Revolution.

According to the President's account on the social network X, the Cuban president told the visitor that his visit contributes to consolidate the ties of friendship between the two countries and is of great help to us, while conveying his warm greetings to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Kurenkov, for his part, “ showed satisfaction for being in #Cuba and for the opportunity to exchange with our President. “We came with the aim of further strengthening the relations of collaboration with Cuba, which have a friendly and companionable character,” reflects another post.

Lieutenant General Alexander Viacheslavovich Kurenkov expressed his satisfaction for the meeting with the Cuban president and that the latter had opened his agenda to receive him, in the midst of the complex moment the country is going through.

The Russian minister is in Havana at the invitation of the Minister of the Interior, Politburo member Major General Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas.