The meeting is a favorable occasion for the contacts of the president of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP, parliament), Esteban Lazo, who yesterday held talks with legislators from Grenada and Russia, as well as from Asian and African nations.

In an interview with Dessima Williams and Leo Cato, presidents of the Senate and House of Representatives of Grenada, respectively, Lazo highlighted the bilateral collaboration ties, forged in the historic friendship between revolutionary leaders Fidel Castro and Maurice Bishop, reports the Cuban Parliament.

The head of the Cuban parliament also received Isaac Jean Claude Tshilumbayi Musawu, first vice president of the National Assembly of the Congo, and Chanda Katotobwe, parliamentarian of the Republic of Zambia, to whom he ratified the deep and unbreakable ties that unite Cuba with the African peoples.

The interlocutors evoked the friendship of Fidel Castro and other Cuban leaders with heroes of that continent, and the contribution of this Antillean nation in the struggle against colonialism, domination, racism and apartheid.

Talking with Chanthavong Senamadmonty, vice chairman of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Lao National Assembly, Lazo emphasized the ties of friendship and solidarity that unite Cuba and that Asian nation, which began long before the date on which diplomatic relations were established on November 4, 1974.

The also president of the Cuban Council of State hold talks with the secretary general of the United Left Movement (MIU) party of the Dominican Republic, José Miguel Mejía.

On the same day, the vice-president of the National Assembly, Ana María Mari Machado, held a fruitful meeting with Irene Montero, member of the European Parliament, accompanied by other Cuban parliamentarians, reported the ANPP.

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