Raúl receives
Brazilian President
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro received in the morning of
January 31 President Dilma Rousseff of the
Federative Republic of Brazil, who is on an official
visit to Cuba.
During the meeting, the two Presidents reviewed
the excellent state of bilateral relations,
emphasized the significance of the newly-established
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)
in the context of confronting major regional
challenges, and discussed other international issues.
President Rousseff was accompanied by Antonio de
Aguiar Patriota, Minister of External Relations;
Marco Aurelio García, Special Advisor to the
Presidency; and José Eduardo Martins Felicio,
Brazilian ambassador to Havana. Present on the Cuban
side were Vice President José Ramón Machado Ventura;
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign
Affairs; and Carlos Zamora Rodríguez, Cuban
ambassador to Brasilia.
