The group was seen off at the airport by Marias
Adiato Djalo Nandigna, vice-president of the Guinean government and
Cuban ambassador to that nation, Pedro Doña, after fulfilling a wide
program of activities that included meetings with top authorities of
the African country.
The delegation arrived to Guinea Bissau on January
25, following an invitation by Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior,
president of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau
and the Cape Verde Islands.
During its stay, the delegation held bilateral meetings with several
ministers, among them those of Defense, the Interior, Public Health
and Education, the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s web site reports.
It also met with Cuban voluntary workers in Guinea Bissau and with
Medicine students from seven faculties receiving advisory in the
archipelago.
In the capital, it placed wreaths by the tomb of Amilcar Cabral,
leader and founder of the African Party for the Independence of
Guinea Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands and to Ernesto Che Guevara
at the square named after him.
The visitors held exchanges with former combatants in some of the
historical places where the struggle in which they participated took
place.
According to the source, they received the solidarity of their
brothers and sisters in struggle and of the people in general, which
expressed their gratitude to the
internationalists, to Revolution leader Fidel Castro, to President
Raul Castro, the Communist Party and the Cuban people for the aid
received before and after Guinea Bissau’s independence.
