BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

19/07/2006

Raul receives Belarus defense minister

GENERAL of the Army Raul Castro Ruz, Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), received in the MINFAR headquarters Colonel General Leonid Semionovich Maltsev, defense minister of the Republic of Belarus, and his accompanying delegation.

Raul receives Belarus defense ministerThe meeting took place in the cordial and friendly atmosphere that characterizes the relations between both countries. Colonel General Maltsev expressed his pleasure in visiting the island and seeing first-hand the achievements of the Cuban Revolution and the experiences of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

Participating in the official talks were Army Corps General Alvaro Lopez Miera, deputy minister and chief of staff, other leading FAR officers, and Victor Vasilievich Kozintsev, consul of the embassy of the Republic of Belarus in Cuba.

Source:

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/julio/mier19/30rbelarus.html