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Honduran president receives Cuban foreign minister
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Diplomatic relations restored after 45 years
AFTER meeting for close to two
hours with Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque,
President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras affirmed that
relations with Cuba are now sealed.
According to Prensa Latina, the
decision taken this Wednesday in the Presidential
House was accompanied by the designation, for the
first time in 45 years, of an ambassador in Havana,
a responsibility to be assumed by Juan Ramón Elvir.
The Cuban foreign minister
observed that José Martí, the Cuban independence
hero, said that Honduras was a generous and
sympathetic nation in which one should have faith…
“and the Cubans of today, the heirs of Martí’s Latin
American and integrationist ideas, do have faith in
this people.”
Felipe Pérez Roque also met with
his Honduran colleague Milton Jiménez, with whom he
is to extend an agreement related to the permanent
presence of Cuban doctors and teachers in Honduras
and sign a maritime demarcation agreement, which has
been under negotiation between the two sides since
mid-2006. He is also to open a ophthalmological
clinic that Cuba has donated to the Villa de San
Francisco community some 20 kilometers east of the
capital, and later, to meet with the medical
contingent from the island who went to Honduras
after Hurricane Mitch lashed that country in 1998.
Translated by Granma
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