During the meeting, both leaders expressed their satisfaction with the current state of bilateral relations and ratified their governments’ willingness to continue strengthening bilateral ties. According to a note read on Cuban television, they also spoke of topics of international interest.

Machado Ventura thanked the visitor for Paraguay’s traditional support of the Cuban people and government’s struggle against Washington’s economic blockade and for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States.

Lacognata was accompanied by officials from the Paraguayan Foreign Ministry including its Director for Bilateral Policies, Roberto Benitez Fernandez. Present on the Cuban side was Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla.