Nyusi regrets death of “icon of our times” recalls Fidel’s “immeasurable and indelible contribution” to Mozambican independence

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Nyusi regrets death of “icon of our times” recalls Fidel’s “immeasurable and indelible contribution” to Mozambican independence

9:15 CAT | 28 Nov 2016

Lusa (File photo) / President Filipe Nyusi

President Filipe Nyusi yesterday issued a statement expressing regret at the death of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who he called “one of the greatest political icons of our times”, recalling his “immeasurable and indelible contribution” to Mozambican independence

In a message addressed to the Cuban president sent to Lusa on Sunday, the Mozambican head of state expressed his government’s “great regret and consternation” to the government of Cuba and “heroic brotherly people of Cuba” for the death on Friday of Fidel Castro, whose influence “extends to the whole world and to all mankind”.

“We acknowledge Commander Fidel Castro’s invaluable and tireless struggle for world peace, stability and independence and sovereign equality among peoples, particularly in Southern Africa,” the Mozambican president wrote.

President Nyusi recalled that in Mozambique the former Cuban president made an “immeasurable and indelible contribution to the cause of independence, well-being and social progress, for the values of friendship and solidarity” between the two peoples and leaves a legacy that deserves to be valued and passed on to future generations.

The letter concludes with Mozambique’s readiness to keep relations between the two countries “exemplary, increasingly firm and of genuine friendship and mutual benefit”.

Fidel Castro died on Friday night. His ashes will be buried on December 4 after nine days of national mourning.

The former Cuban leader died on the day Cuban Vice-Minister of Education Cira Alonso met Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mozambique, Nyeleti Mondlane in Maputo.

At the end of the meeting, both expressed a desire to maintain bilateral cooperation in education, given the history of relations between the two countries in the course of which hundreds of Mozambican teachers, doctors and engineers have trained in Cuba since 1975 and dozens of Cubans have worked in Mozambique.

Source: Lusa