BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

13/08/2006

Lukashenko congratulates Castro on 80th birthday

MINSK. Aug 13 (Interfax-West) - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has congratulated Cuban leader Fidel Castro on his 80th birthday, the presidential press service told Interfax on Sunday.

"As a political leader and Communist Party head you have been campaigning for excluding diktat from interstate relations, for shaping a just world order and for each country's right to opt for its own way of development. Belarus shares these positions," the message reads.

"Thanks to inexhaustible will and optimism Fidel Castro is going through one more trial to remain useful to Cuba and its people, and to the world community for many years ahead," the Belarussian president said.

Source:

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=11570995

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