The document aims to strengthen the fight against crime, exchange of experiences, and training of personnel. These are signs of the effectiveness of cooperation between the two countries’ ministries in the complex international environment, Kolokoltsev said.

We are forced by life itself to work in close contact, by all interacting structures, because the West has never and will never cease in its desire to limit the development of our states, the Russian minister added.

Kolokoltsev pointed out that Cuba remains a reliable partner of Russia and cooperation has already yielded great results.

Álvarez, in turn, also met in Moscow with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, with whom he discussed issues of the Russian-Cuban cooperation in security forces and judicial bodies.

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