Top-ranking Chinese official visits Cuba
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| Published on Saturday, April 21, 2007 |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): A member of China's Communist Party inner circle arrived in Havana this week on a mission to improve cooperation and friendship with Cuba, the official press reported.
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| Wu Guanzheng, member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China. AFP PHOTO |
Wu Guanzheng, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the highest-ranking Chinese government official to visit Cuba since the December 2005 visit of another politburo member, Lou Gan, and Chinese President Hu Jintao in November 2004.
"On behalf of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo, the Chinese people and myself, I bring cordial greetings and the best wishes for the Communist Party of Cuba, its government and the Cuban people," Wu said, according to the daily Granma.
Wu's trip is meant to "increase friendship, consensus and cooperation," the official daily said.
Wu was greeted at the airport by Fernando Remirez, in charge of foreign relations of Cuba's Communist Party secretariat.
China is Cuba's second-most important trade partner after Venezuela, with two-way trade close to two billion dollars in 2006, and one of Cuba's principal sources of credit. |
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