[NYTr] President of Guinea Bissau Meets with Cuban Internationalists
 
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:32:54 -0500 (CDT)

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President of Guinea Bissau Meets with Cuban Internationalists

Havana, Oct 3 (acn) As a meeting among brothers and without protocol 
described the President of Guinea Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vieira, his 
encounter on Tuesday with Cuban internationalists who participated in 
the struggle for the independence of his country.

Some 450 Cuban internationalists, including 107 doctors, nurses and 
health personnel, gave their contribution from 1966 until 1975 during 
the struggle for independence of the African country.

Participants in the meeting recalled special moments of that period 
when Vieira was a member of the Politburo of the African Party for the 
Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde and also the commander of 
the armed forces.

The President of Guinea Bissau arrived in Cuba last Sunday for a 
four-day official visit at the invitation of Cuban First Vice President 
Raul Castro, with whom he held official talks on Monday.

On Tuesday, he laid a wreath on the pantheon of the Cuban martyrs who 
died fighting for the independence of the African peoples. He also 
visited the Latin American School of Medicine where he received 
information about the program of the Cuban Revolution to train health 
professionals from almost 30 countries of the Third World.

Vieira's official visit concludes on Thursday.
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