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China-Cuba Officials
Meet
BEIJING - Chinese
Vice-prime Minister Li
Kegiang welcomed Cuban
Minister Council
Vice-president Jose
Ramon Fernandez, who
heads the Island's
sports delegation to the
Beijing-2008 Games, at
the government
headquarters.
The Chinese leader
welcomed the visitor,
whom he called an
important figure in
sports that had offered
all his support to
Beijing Olympics.
Fernandez requested his
interlocutor to pass on
a friendly greeting from
Cuban leader Fidel
Castro and President
Raul Castro to Chinese
Head of State Hu Jintao,
Prime Minister Wen
Jiabao and this Asian
nation's political
leadership.
He also recalled that
since March, the Cuban
government had announced
its support to China to
hold the world sports
event, against any
interference and other
foreign maneuvers.
Li was accompanied in
the meeting by Liu Qi,
member of the Chinese
Communist party
Political Bureau and
President of the Olympic
Organizing Committee,
and two other officials
from his country.
The Cuban leader, who is
also president of the
Caribbean Island's
Olympic Committee,
attended the meeting
together with Christian
Jimenez, president of
the Sports, Physical
Education and Recreation
Institute, and Carlos
Miguel Pereira, Cuban
ambassador.
Fernandez highlighted
that he had been guest
to five Olympics and he
could testify to their
excellent organization,
high quality of services
and assistance by
volunteers and all the
Chinese people to the
athletes and
delegations.
In the friendly meeting,
Vice-prime Minister Li
Kegiang highlighted that
both countries have
maintained satisfactory
diplomatic relations for
48 years, supporting
each other in essential
issues.
In that context he
referred to the quick
sending of a Cuban
medical brigade in May,
to help the victims of
the earthquake that
devastated the Chinese
Sichuan province. |
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