Timely Deals for Cuba-China
Cuban President Fidel Castro highly praised the importance of collaboration with China in transportation, in his address at the official ceremony for the delivery of Yutong buses to the Island.

Fidel Castro said the deal for 800 of the 1,000 buses bought in July proved the remarkable moment Cuba is living.

The Cuban leader extolled the Chinese authorities´ respect in negotiations and said the deal to purchase buses, like the purchase of 12 locomotives last January, were calmly and consciously transacted, conforming to the practice of meeting financial obligations without the smallest delay.

He also referred to a deal with the Chinese firm to buy 8,000 inter-provincial, municipal, urban, school and tourism buses.

These relations show the mutual commitment to a true collaboration between a giant nation and a small one, an idea the US tries to destroy by implementing an over 45-year blockade, pointed out the leader of the Cuban Revolution.

Fidel Castro stated that country´s economic war has reached out to all sectors, as it happened in Mexico recently, when a Cuban delegation was expelled from there.

"It is about intervention and extraterritoriality of the ridiculous US laws, which prove how clumsy and ridicule the imperial policy is," he contended.

The Cuban president challenged the Bush administration to explain if its decision to increase the health budget was a way to keep its citizens from travelling to Cuba, following the Island´s offer to operate here on 150,000 citizens from poor US areas.

The ceremony was attended by Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, Yutong firm President Tan Fuxiang and Zhengzhoung city Vice President Hu Quang.