President Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived in Cuba this Friday from Algeria after completing a work agenda in Moscow at the invitation of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
At the José Martí international airport in Havana he was received by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and the Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the island, Roberto Morales, the Presidency of Cuba site reported on X.
During a brief technical stopover at the Houari Boumediene International Airport, in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, the Cuban head of state held talks with Brahim Boughali, president of the National Popular Assembly of the African country, and Abdelhak Saihi, Minister of Health and co-president of the Algeria-Cuba Intergovernmental Commission.
Díaz-Canel participated in the Russian capital in the commemorative activities for the 79th anniversary of the Victory against fascism, which culminated in the traditional military parade held in Moscow’s Red Square.
Likewise, the Cuban president was received in the Kremlin by his counterpart from the Russian Federation with whom he held official conversations and reviewed the state of bilateral relations that this May 9 reached the 64th anniversary of those established with the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR).
At the meeting, Putin reiterated Russia’s unconditional support for Cuba, and condemned the United States blockade of the island.
In Moscow, Díaz-Canel also met with other political figures of that nation and participated in the Supreme Council of the Eurasian Economic Union, an important integration bloc in which Cuba holds the status of an observer state.
