Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Sunday ended his visit to Namibia and his tour of Africa, during which he visited three other nations from that continent, official sources reported on Monday.
Havana, Cuba.- The head of State and the delegation accompanying him was seen off in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, by President Hage Geingo, with whom he held official talks, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez reported on the social network X, formerly Twitter.
Previously, Díaz-Canel participated in the BRICS Summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), and in that context, he paid official visits to Angola, Mozambique and Namibia.
In Windhoek, Díaz-Canel was the guest of honor at the ceremony on Heroes’ Day, and paid tribute to heroes and heroines of Namibia, Angola, and Cuba, “who paved the way to independence with their blood, and ended the apartheid regime,” the President said.
He also received, from the hands of his Namibian counterpart, the “Order of the Most Ancient Welwitschia Mirabilis,” Namibia’s highest decoration. The Cuban president invited Geingob to pay an official visit to Cuba.
Bilateral agreements were signed to strengthen mutual ties. He also proposed, as issues of improvement during the sixth bilateral cooperation meeting to take place this year, to increase the hierarchy of this cooperation mechanism, implement the intergovernmental commission, and boost cooperation between the Communist Party of Cuba and the South West Africa People’s Organization, known as SWAPO Party of Namibia.
Namibia was the last stop of Díaz-Canel’s tour of African countries, which included official visits to Angola and Mozambique. He also traveled to South Africa to attend the BRICS Summit as President of the Group of 77 (G-77) plus China.
DÍAZ-CANEL MEETS CUBAN SOLIDARITY FRIENDS IN NAMIBIA
Windhoek.- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel met with Cuban residents and supportive friends in Namibia, whom he thanked for their constant solidarity towards Cuba.
During the evening, the Cuban head of State acknowledged the actions against the blockade imposed by the US and demanded Cuba’s exclusion from the unilateral list of States sponsoring terrorism, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez reported on X, formerly Twitter.
On Sunday, Díaz-Canel met with more than 100 Cuban collaborators who currently work in the African country and invited them to maintain the prestige achieved in the continued social progress of Namibia.
The head of State wrote on X that he was leaving Namibia and his African tour “with the highest and deepest emotions. For those who gave their blood yesterday and those who provide their cooperation at present.” (PL)
