Havana, June 19 (ACN) Salvador Valdés Mesa, Vice President of Cuba, participated today in the inauguration of the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, who begins his second term.
The also member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba arrived in Johannesburg this Tuesday to attend the investiture, which took place at the Unión Buildings, headquarters of the Government.
“Cuba could not miss this important meeting between brothers, the inauguration of Cyril Ramaphosa as President of South Africa,” wrote Valdés Mesa in X.
According to the Presidency of Cuba on the same social network, the ceremony brought together people of all origins, lifestyles and political orientations, as well as monarchs, heads of State and Government, and other dignitaries, mostly from the continent. African.
“In taking the oath before Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, re-elected President Cyril Ramaphosa assured that he will oppose anything that wants to harm the Republic,” the Presidency said in another message.
This Tuesday, the Cuban Vice President began the activities of his visit with the tribute to the more than two thousand internationalists from his country who fell in Africa, mentioned on the Wall of Names in Freedom Park.
Likewise, he held an exchange with Cuban collaborators, representatives of the South African union movement and members of solidarity groups.
In 2014, Salvador Valdés Mesa represented the largest of the Antilles at the inauguration of Jacob Zuma, and on May 25, 2019, he attended the first investiture of Ramaphosa, with whom he had a meeting the next day.
The establishment of diplomatic relations between Havana and Pretoria, on May 11, 1994, one day after Nelson Mandela’s inauguration, was the first foreign policy act of the new South Africa.
