HAVANA, Cuba. “When we help Africa we are paying off the debt we have with that people,” Esteban Lazo Hernandez, president of the National Assembly of Popular Power, said in a meeting held this Saturday in Havana with Seif Ali Iddi, second Vice-President of Zanzibar.

On behalf of the President of his country, Ali Iddi expressed his condolences for the physical disappearance of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and gratitude for his solidarity support to Africa. The distinguished visitor also expressed his deep appreciation for the help Cuba provides to Zanzibar in the health sector.

“What Africa is doing to support Cuba is an obligation, and we will continue supporting it in the United Nations Organization for the elimination of the unjust blockade to the island by the US government,” the second Vice-President of Zanzibar added.

During the conversations in the Sancti Spiritus Hall of the National Hotel of Cuba, both leaders reviewed the upward march of bilateral ties between both nations and ratified the willingness to continue strengthening the bonds of friendship and solidarity.

The President of the Cuban Parliament gave a panoramic view of Cuba’s economic and social reality in today’s circumstances.

Iddi Seif Bakari, protocol Officer, and Leonce Bilauri, advisers to the High Commissioner of the United Republic of Tanzania in Canada, accompanied the distinguished visitor.

By the Cuban side they were present Angel Villa Hernandez, director of the Sub-Saharan Africa Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Jose Luis Noriega, official of DASS.

Taken from: www.parlamentocubano.cu