HAVANA, Cuba.- Ana Teresita Gonzalez, Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, received Miroslav Stasek, Secretary of State of the Czech Republic, at the headquarters of the Chancellery in Havana.

In her official Twitter profile, Gonzalez stated that the meeting was positive, and that the two sides agreed to continue advancing bilateral relations, in particular commercial economics, in correspondence with the historical links binding both peoples.

The Czech Republic is part of the international community which each year condemns the economic, trade and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba for nearly six decades.

The Czech Republic is a nation of Central Europe, with an area of approximately 78 thousand square kilometers, and a population of more than 10 million inhabitants, whose capital and most important city is Prague.