Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel visited important sites in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, as part of his working visit to that nation.

According to the Cuban presidency’s Twitter, “today, the President of #Cuba @DiazCanelB toured places in the historic center of the Old City of #Baku, which in December 2000 became the first location in #Azerbaijan to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site”.

Cuban president went to the Baku cemetery, where he laid a wreath and honored the Azeri nation’s father, Heydar Aliyev, as well as exchanged with his counterpart Ilham Aliyev, considered by Diaz-Canel as “a friendly, fraternal and fruitful meeting for our relations.

President Diaz-Canel arrived Thursday in Baku from Minsk, capital of Belarus, to attend the 18th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, to be held October 25-26.