[NYTr] Cuban and Chinese Armies Strengthen Friendship Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:16:38 -0500 (CDT) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) http://ainch.ain.cu/mailman/listinfo/ingles Cuban and Chinese Armies Strengthen Friendship Havana, August 2 (acn) The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) reiterated on Wednesday their friendship and cooperation ties with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the PLA foundation. The ceremony, held at the Universal Hall of the Armed Forces Ministry in Havana, was presided over by Corps General Alvaro LC3pez Miera, head of the FAR's Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Evidence of our friendship and cooperation is the exchange of visits," said Division General Leonardo Andollo ValdC)s recalling the visit to Beijing of Cuban First Vice President and Army General RaC:l Castro in April 2005 and the visit to Havana last May of his Chinese counterpart Colonel-General Cao Ganchuan. Andollo praised the achievements of the Chinese people in the economic sector and in strengthening the socialist ideology and also praised the role of the PLA not only in guaranteeing the defense of the homeland but also in the country's social and economic development. For his part, Sun Yi Fan, military attachC) of the Chinese embassy in Havana, referred to the close links of comradeship and brotherhood that exist between the military of both countries and made a call to further develop them. * ================================================================= .NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems . Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us . .339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org . List Archives: https://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ . Subscribe: https://blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr =================================================================