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China confirms desire to deepen ties with Cuba
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CHina on Monday ratified its firm willingness to take advantage of the 60th anniversary of its ties with Cuba to tie them up through a deeper, more comprehensive and more multisectoral cooperation for both peoples.

According to Geng Shuang, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Beijing is ready to celebrate with the Havana the event in 2020, as it considers it a new historical starting point that will strengthen mutual political trust. Cuba, he recalled, was the first territory in the Western Hemisphere that established diplomatic ties with the new China and the traditional friendship between the two nations has passed, without breaking, the evidence of a changing international landscape.

A China-Cuba friendship founded on mutual respect and understanding Geng said that the Asian giant wants to expand the width and depth of bilateral cooperation and boost fraternal exchanges in multiple fields in order to obtain new fruits and better benefits for its people. He welcomed the appointment of Manuel Marrero as Prime Minister of the island and recalled that his Chinese counterpart, Li Keqiang, sent a congratulatory message on Sunday.

Li stressed in his letter that the China-Cuba friendship is founded on mutual respect, understanding and support for the respective national development processes. After expressing his willingness to work with Marrero, he also proposed taking as an opportunity the six decades of diplomatic ties in 2020 to expand high-level contacts and practical cooperation in various fields.

Qualified solids ties On September 28, 1960, Cuba recognized the People’s Republic of China as the only legitimate representative of its people in the international arena and that act was the catalyst in the harmonious and uninterrupted progress of qualified ties of solids by the authorities of both sides.

Throughout this time, political exchanges flourished with fluid dialogues and reached a significant level thanks to the reciprocal visits of senior officials annually, which, in addition, increasingly consolidate mutual trust.

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