Haitian
President highlights meetings with Fidel and Raúl
Eduardo Palomares
Calderón
SANTIAGO
DE CUBA.— At the end of his visit to Cuba in this
city Haitian President Michel Joseph Martelly
described his meeting with Comandante en Jefe Fidel
Castro as a historic moment, while also highly
valuing his talks with President Raúl Castro.
"They were very good opportunities
for further developing relations between our two
countries on the basis of solidarity," he noted.
Evaluating the results of his
official visit, Martelly stated that he discussed
with his Cuban counterparts points of action to
reinforce cooperation.
"The work of Cuban health
professionals in our country, the training of more
than 700 young Haitians as doctors and what has been
done in other areas of cooperation are very
important, because they are contributing to the
future of Haiti," he observed.
During his brief visit to Santiago
de Cuba, the Haitian President toured the Mayor
General Antonio Maceo Plaza de la Revolución, where
he was informed of some aspects of the life of the
Cuban independence leader, and met with the close to
300 Haitian medical students attending courses here.
Lázaro Expósito Canto, first
secretary of the Communist Party in the province,
and Reynaldo García Zapata, president of the
provincial government bade farewell to the visitor
at the Antonio Maceo international airport.
