Cuba, Russia to step up cooperation amid security tensions

Friday, November 21, 2003

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP): Cuba and Russia are to step up their cooperation as a result of growing tensions in the global situation, a top Russian official said Thursday. 

"The acute nature of the current situation with regards to security in the world underscores the need for strengthening and advancing Russian-Cuban cooperation," Security Council Secretary Vladimir Rushailo said in talks with Cuba's First Deputy Foreign Minister Fernando Remirez.

Rushailo and Remirez addressed a wide range of security issues in their Kremlin talks, the Interfax news agency reported, quoting a Security Council statement. 

The officials "exchanged views on a wide range of security, strategic stability, disarmament, nonproliferation and anti-terrorist issues," the statement said. 

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