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Swiss Lawmakers Visit Cuba
Assembly
A Swiss parliamentary
delegation, visiting Cuba to
foster bilateral links, continue
a week visit Friday with the
island s National Peoples Power
Assembly (Congress) President
Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada.
Deputy Franco Cavalli and eight
colleagues from the
Switzerland-Cuba friendship
parliamentary group are also due
to tour Havana s historical
quarter and attend an artistic
gala at the capital s opera
house.
Other activities will conclude
the 16th International Book
Fair, with venue at the capital
s Cabaña Fortress, shortly
before leaving the country.
On Thursday, the Swiss
legislators met with Cuba s
Communist Party Central
Committee s International
Relation Department chief
Fernando Remirez de Estenoz,
Foreign Investment and Economic
Collaboration Minister Marta
Lomas and visited the Latin
American School of Medicine.
During their stay in the
Caribbean country, they visited
the memorial that holds the
remains of Argentinean-Cuban
Ernesto Che Guevara and a group
of his comrades-in-arms fallen
in Bolivia in 1967, as well as
sites of the island s economic,
social and scientific interest.
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