Cuban President Receives Senior Chinese Communist Party Official

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel held a meeting today with Liu Haixing, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and head of its International Department, at the Convention Palace in the capital.

Moments before the start of the First International Colloquium "Fidel: Legacy and Future," the president explained to his visitor the consequences of the energy blockade imposed by the United States, which has undermined the island's key social programs.

He emphasized that this constitutes "a genocidal and criminal program, meticulously calculated by the United States government, and accompanied by a narrative constructed by the State Department, fabricating pretexts to justify the aggression."

He added that the presence of the Chinese delegation as Cuba commemorates the centennial of the Commander in Chief carries great significance, describing it as an expression of the historic bonds of brotherhood and friendship that also unite the two countries' political parties, as well as of the relations between Cuba and China at the government, state, and people-to-people levels.

The head of state conveyed a fraternal greeting to the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of the Republic, Xi Jinping. He also thanked his Asian counterpart for the message sent on the occasion of Fidel Castro's centennial.

Díaz-Canel thanked the Government and the Communist Party of China for their support of the country's energy transition program, the Cuban Presidency reported on its website.

For his part, Liu Haixing expressed his gratitude to Díaz-Canel for receiving him amid his busy schedule and conveyed to the president and to Revolution leader Raúl Castro the sincere greetings and best wishes of Xi Jinping.