“We thank the Government of India for sending a shipment of medicines for the areas hit by Hurricane Rafael in Cuba,” the foreign minister wrote on his X profile.

“This solidarity aid is an example of the friendship that exists between the two nations,” he added.

On Friday, precisely, India reaffirmed its ties of friendship and cooperation with Cuba in the context of the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the establishment of good official relations between both States.

India was one of the first countries to recognize the Cuban State after the revolutionary victory in 1959, Ambassador in Havana Armstrong Changsan said at a ceremony at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba.

In statements to Prensa Latina, Changsan confirmed that a first shipment of medicines had left for Havana to help the victims of the two hurricanes that hit Cuba’s eastern and western regions at the end of last year.

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