“For us it is a pleasure to receive you here on this visit to Cuba, together with the delegation that accompanies you; and even more with the satisfaction that we are receiving a good friend of Cuba”. With such words, the President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez received Serguey Yevgenevich Naryskin, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, on Monday afternoon.
From the Palace of the Revolution, the Cuban dignitary said that “this visit is very propitious to exchange and follow up on conversations that we have had at other times”, and affirmed that “it also demonstrates the excellent level of dialogue that exists between our nations”.
Díaz-Canel stressed that the visit takes place at a time of deep significance and political motivations for both countries.
“During this year we have been commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War -that has also been a moment to dismantle all the Western propaganda that tries to take away the leading role of the USSR and the Red Army in that great victory-”; and because ‘we have been commemorating the 65th anniversary of the reestablishment of relations between our countries’.
The Head of State valued that these are “relations that have lasted all these years, that have overcome difficult moments, and that today are in an excellent moment”.
The dignitary also emphasized: “First of all, I send you an affectionate greeting from Army General Raúl Castro; and I would like to send with you affectionate greetings to President Putin, with whom we have had the opportunity, in recent weeks, to meet twice: at the celebration, in May, of the anniversary of the Great Patriotic War -where we held official talks-, and now in these days, last week, when we met within the framework of the Supreme Council of the Eurasian Economic Union”.
Díaz-Canel extended his gratitude “to you for your unconditional support in the struggle of the Cuban people against the blockade and for the exclusion of Cuba from the list of countries that allegedly support terrorism”.
On the Cuban side, the member of the Political Bureau and Minister of the Interior, General of the Army Corps Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, as well as other high-ranking chiefs of that institution were present.
