An extract. >Cuba, China hope to strengthen exchanges, cooperation (09/8/2000) Senior >officials of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Cuban Communist Party >on Thursday expressed the hope to strengthen exchanges and cooperation between >the two parties and two countries. The hope was voiced at a meeting in Havana >between Jose Ramon Balaguer, member of the Political Bureau of the Central >Committee and head of the International Department of the Cuban Communist >Party, and Li Tieying, member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee. >Li, who is also president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, hailed >the economic achievements the Cuban people have made under the leadership of >President Fidel Castro, and the ever- growing friendly relations between the >two parties and two parties. He expressed the wish to know more about Cuba's >experience in its revolution and socialist construction. The two sides >exchanged views on issues of common interest and agreed to strengthen the >exchange and cooperation between the two parties and two countries. They also >spoke highly of the statements made respectively by Chinese President Jiang >Zemin and President Castro at the ongoing UN Millennium Summit in New York. Li >arrived in Havana Wednesday at the head of a CPC delegation following goodwill >visits to Chile, Colombia and Venezuela. (Xinhua) _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
