[NYTr] Cuba's VP Lage Meets with Visiting Indian Delegation Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:49:36 -0600 (CST) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) http://ainch.ain.cu/mailman/listinfo/ingles Carlos Lage Meets with Visiting Indian Delegation Havana, Jan 8 (acn) Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage Davila met on Monday with a delegation from the Lower Chamber of India headed by Somnath Chatterjee, president of this legislative body. Chatterjee thanked Lage for all the attention they have received since their arrival in Cuba, where they will stay until next Thursday. The visitor said he felt as if he were among old friends and added that he hoped relations would strengthen even more between Cuba and India. He also explained that his delegation includes members of all the parties represented in the Indian Parliament. Chatterjee noted that his country, the second most populated in the world with some 1.2 billion inhabitants, has a Parliament with 545 members in its Lower Chamber or Chamber of the People while the Higher Chamber of Council of State has 250 members. The visiting delegation was also received by the President of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament), Ricardo Alarcon, on Monday morning. The agenda of the Indian parliamentarians includes meetings with Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque and with Fernando Remirez de Estenoz, head of the Foreign Relations Department at the Cetral Committee of Cuba's Communist Party. They will also visit places of social, scientific and historic interest like the Center for Immuno-Trials, the Superior School for the Training of Athletes, the Latin American School of Medicine and Old Havana. * ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us Our main website: http://www.blythe.org List Archives: http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ Subscribe: http://blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr =================================================================