VARADERO, CUBA, Jul 2 Speak It is still too early to prepare for the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Cuba, Viktor Koronelli, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Cuba, said in an interview.
«Meetings at the highest level — it's not that premature to talk about this… The fact is that the President of Cuba (Miguel Diaz-Canel — ed.) was in Moscow quite recently, in November last year, that is, Nothing at all. Vladimir Vladimirovich has an invitation, but I don’t know how his plans will develop further,” Coronelli said.
The Ambassador highly appreciated the level of cooperation between Moscow and Havana.
«In just one and a half to two months, there have been four high-level visits to Cuba. This is the visit of our Foreign Minister Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov. The visit of State Duma Chairman (Vyacheslav) Volodin. The visit of Presidential Aide (Maxim) Oreshkin. And the visit of Deputy Prime Minister (Dmitry) Chernyshenko, who held a regular meeting of the intergovernmental commission here. This listing alone, I think, is already evidence of the level at which our relations are, «Koronelli said.
He also noted that Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Mappero paid a long ten-day visit to Russia in June.
«Ten days — work in Sochi within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union, where Cuba has observer status, a visit to Moscow, a visit to St. Petersburg and participation in SPIEF. Over the past two months, this frequency has not been with any of the external partners «, added the ambassador.
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