Havana, May 8 (ACN) “I am one of those convinced that we can get ahead,” said the president of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, in encounter with dozens of representatives of the state mission of the island in the Russian federation in the morning.
The head of state told his interlocutors that it was “a pleasure to be with you”; And then he referred to the Eurasian giant as “an important country for us”, which will increasingly have more insertion in the economic life of Cuba.
In a shared count on the essences of this official visit, Díaz-Canel Bermúdez commented that the itinerary of the high-level delegation of the largest of the Antilles began in the city of St. Petersburg. What importance do we give to this visit? The president raised and then state that the representatives of the Caribbean country arrived at Russian land to take part, first, in the celebration for the 80th anniversary of the great victory over fascism in the great homeland.
The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party of Cuba reflected that, in times like these, when it comes to rewriting history from Western positions, it must be defended that it returns to historical memory and that the ephemeris of the Soviet victory with rigor is commemorated.
“Being here was fundamental,” said the dignitary, who referred to the 65th anniversary of the restoration of diplomatic relations between Cuba and Russia as something of special importance.
“It must be said that the relations between Cuba and Russia,” said Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, “have endured and overcome the passage of time.” They are 65 years, he said, in which many emotions and projects have been shared, in which “the flame of friendship and solidarity was never lost.” The Head of State spoke in terms of “family relations”, because in “all the houses of us there are elements of those relationships.”
At the moment – the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba resorted to the ties between both nations – it must be said that we have an important relationship and that the level of political consultation is high.
“We observed that President Putin has a sensitivity towards the problems of Cuba,” said Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, who told the participants in the meeting that at this Wednesday’s meeting with the Russian president “we managed to enhance a group of proposals we brought.”
We, he added, “we want projects that are of mutual benefit”; And he said it was important to have been in St. Petersburg, because the governor of that great city “has been very active” in the approach to the Caribbean country, and because “there are twinnings that are being revitalized.”
This time, the dignitary reported, “we could appreciate the biotechnological potential that St. Petersburg has,” a city to which the historical issue also distinguishes: “The tribute to Leningrad’s victims is something that moves,” said the head of state.
Reflections on the Cuba that resists
On the complex reality facing the Caribbean country, the president spoke to the representatives of the official Cuban mission in the Russian Federation: “For us it has to be clear, he said, that we can overcome the blockade, and we have to do it working, with talent and intelligence.”
The Head of State explained: “We have applied a work system by which we are going every month to all provinces.” In his opinion, such routes allow “seeing what works badly; but there are many things that are doing work groups that have different leaderships, which give greater participation to their workers; people who do not lament and go out to do things.”
The president spoke about the transcendence of extending good practices, and emphasized that the adverse context “does not change suddenly”, and that what it is about is “to accumulate results until it takes a leap” in the qualitative one.
There are many people innovating, doing really heroic and transformative things, he said; and offered an explanation to the members of the official mission on the current priorities of the direction of the party and the government in Cuba; Among them, the unit from the call made by the Army General, Raúl Castro Ruz, to defend that fortress as something vital: “If people participate, the dignitary said, among all we are achieving victories; there we are joining, there we are strengthening unity, and especially with a vision towards young people.”
Of the encounters with history in places of the country, the president also spoke. He recalled the visits to the La Plata Command, to Duaba Beach, to San Lorenzo, to Playa Girón, to Mangos de Baraguá, and pointed out that, beyond the first meeting, the transcendent is how that approach to history is reissued by other groups of young people.
About the government program to solve structural problems of the economy; on renewable energy sources and how from this 2025 Cuba can count from the FRE with 1000 MW; On how “we have managed to close the first three months of the year without budget deficit at the country level, and how six provinces have already registered surpluses,” said the Cuban President, who emphasized that the challenge is not to grow only in economic, but in achieving economic growth but with social justice.
The situation is hard, but there are departures, the dignitary stated, who stressed that the important thing is to continue living and fighting, not letting us humiliate: “It is demonstrated in history, he said, that when one faces with dignity the empire,” that empire cannot react as I would like.
Regarding the most recent May 1 and the tremendous popular march starring more than five million Cubans, Díaz-Canel Bermúdez emphasized that those who do not understand and adverse us, felt that march: “That they look for a place in the world, he said, where he paraded more massively than in Cuba.”
In this Thursday, the representatives of the state mission spoke about the work of their workers in order to enhance the economic-commercial relations between the two nations, as well as to continue promoting the training of highly qualified professionals in universities and in other academic institutions of the Russian Federation.
Taken as a presidency
