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.