HAVANA, Cuba. – Army General Raul Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, in his role as president of the National Defense Council led a meeting with Party, State and Government leaders.

According to a national TV report, this meeting has as its main objective to specify the actions to be completed during the recovery stage after the devastating passage of Hurricane Irma through Cuba.

The National Defense Council is an institution whose main purpose is to prepare Cuba since peacetime to face the conditions of the state of war, during the war, general mobilization or state of emergency.

(Taken from Prensa Latina)