By Prensa Latina
New Delhi : Indian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anand Sharma expressed his government’s wish to broaden bilateral relations and cooperation with Cuba.
Sharma received on Monday Fernando Remírez de Estenoz, head of Department of International Relations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, with whom he reviewed joint projects in several fields, including renewable energy, hydrocarbons and biotechnology.
They agreed on the need to look for new ways of cooperation to broaden bilateral links and economic relations, and highlighted the views of Havana and New Delhi regarding foreign policy within the Non-Aligned Movement, currently presided over by Cuba.
Sharma recalled how links between Cuba and India started from the historic meeting of Fidel Castro and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Theresa Hotel in New York in 1960, on occasion of the UN General Assembly.
Remirez de Estenoz was also received by Margaret Alba, Secretary General of the Congress Party, which is leading the current governing United Alliance for Progress coalition.
The meeting, which was also attended by Cuban Ambassador Miguel Angel Ramirez and three deputies of the Congress party, discussed the state of relations between both parties and the current situation in the two countries.
Remirez de Estenoz explained the case of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters held in US prisons for 10 years.
He arrived in India on an Asian tour which took him to China and Vietnam previously.