President of Cuba to visit Mozambique in March

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President of Cuba to visit Mozambique in March

12:13 CAT | 19 Feb 2020

[File photo: Lusa]

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel will visit Mozambique in March this year, at a time when the two countries are aiming to strengthen economic cooperation, an official source announced on Tuesday.

“It will be a historic visit and an opportunity to strengthen our relations,” Cuban ambassador to Mozambique Pavel Diaz Hernández told reporters after a meeting with the president of the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique, Agostinho Vuma.

The actual dates of Miguel Díaz-Canel’s visit to Mozambique are not yet known, but the Cuban ambassador says it will be in March, with a business forum in the Mozambican capital also planned for the same period.

“The forum will showcase the businesses we have and the possibilities of importing, reinforcing the relationship that exists between our two peoples,” Hernández said.

Among the principal areas of cooperation, the Cuban diplomat chose to highlight tourism and health as potential sectors of cooperation, and also tobacco production – Cuba is famous for its cigars, and Mozambique produces tobacco.

In addition to the then Soviet Union and China, Cuba was one of the countries supporting Mozambique’s struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime between 1964 and 1975, and supplied arms to the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo).

This will be the second time that a Cuban head of state has visited Mozambique, after President Fidel Castro’s brief visit to Beira in 1977.

Trade between Mozambique and Cuba is estimated at around US$1 million annually.

Source: Lusa