Mexico and Cuba reaffirm ties of friendship during Díaz-Canel's visit.

247 - Mexico and Cuba reaffirmed their friendship and solidarity on Saturday, noting that bilateral relations are experiencing one of their best moments in over 120 years since their establishment, reports Prensa Latina. 

This is what a statement released by the Mexican presidency expressed at the end of the official visit of the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and the large delegation that accompanied him.

The visit was at the invitation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and is Díaz-Canel's fourth trip to Mexico, the text adds.

Both heads of state visited the Edzná archaeological zone, inspected the works on the Mayan Train, met with IMSS-Benestar personnel in the Seventh Naval Region of Campeche, and held a bilateral meeting to further the agreements reached during President López Obrador's visit to Cuba in May 2022.

In the archaeological zone of Edzná, a World Heritage Site, López Obrador awarded Díaz-Canel the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle in the degree of Collar, in recognition of his merits in bringing the strategic relationship between Mexico and Cuba to a historic level of high friendship and understanding.

Díaz-Canel's visit was part of President López Obrador's trip to oversee the Mayan Train project, in which Cuba supplied quarries for the extraction of approximately 20.000 tons of rock for the ballast required by the railway.

Mexico reaffirmed its unwavering condemnation of the blockade against Cuba and declared its intention to lead the international community's efforts to eliminate this hostile policy, which President López Obrador described as unjust and inhumane.

Similarly, it reiterated the urgent need for Cuba to be removed from the United States Department of State's arbitrary list of state sponsors of terrorism, a designation that impedes international financial transactions and hinders the operations of foreign companies, thus contributing to shortages of basic goods, the statement said.

Both leaders agreed to expand and deepen cooperation in health, as framed within the agreement signed during President López Obrador's visit to Cuba.

They referred to the acquisition of Abdala vaccines and medications required by the Mexican public health system. Similarly, they highlighted the work of the 610 Cuban specialist doctors who provide services in highly marginalized areas of the North American country and the 429 Mexican doctors who study specialties in Cuba.

In this sense, and with the aim of sharing bilateral cooperation at the regional level, Cuba accepted Mexico's invitation to be a co-sponsor of the Latin American and Caribbean Health Regulation Agency, which seeks to unify regulatory efforts, make processes more efficient, reduce costs, and generate access to technical capabilities in the region.

Similarly, he adds, the governments of Mexico and Cuba welcomed the significant progress in implementing the Rural Development and Strengthening of Local, Economic, Social and Environmental Cooperation Program, coordinated by the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation, which will benefit approximately five thousand farmers in the Cuban provinces of Artemisa and Mayabeque.

This visit by President Díaz-Canel is a true testament to the extraordinary moment that the frank and open friendship between the peoples of Mexico and Cuba is experiencing, after more than 120 years of uninterrupted relations, the statement concludes.

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