Havana, January 23 (RHC)-- Cuban President Raul Castro has met with Uruguay's Vice President-elect, Raúl Fernando Sendic Rodríguez, who is in Cuba on an official visit.

During the meeting on Thursday, both leaders addressed the excellent friendship and collaboration between the two countries and peoples, as well as international issues of mutual interest.

Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez were also present at the meeting with the Uruguayan official.

Sendic Rodríguez had previously met with the President of the National Assembly of People's Power, Esteban Lazo, as well as Deputy Foreign Investment Minister Antonio Carricarte Corona and José Ramón Balaguer, head of the Foreign Relations Department at the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party.