CHINESE President Xi Jinping said yesterday that China was willing to walk together with Cuba in building socialism and be partners in pursuing common development in a phone conversation with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Jinping also said China was willing to join hands with Cuba in being good exemplars of anti-Covid-19 fight and good comrades in strategic coordination.
Diaz-Canel conveyed Comrade Raul Castro’s sincere greetings to Jinping during their talks. He briefed the Chinese President on the recent domestic situation in Cuba. Jinping asked Diaz-Canel to convey his cordial greetings to Comrade Raul Castro.
According to the Chinese President, under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba, Cuban comrades have forcefully defended their revolutionary achievements with no fear for the powerful and unyielding struggle.
He said historically, the socialist cause has never been smooth, and the communists have always strived for survival, development, and victory through struggles, adding that China always believes that any nation has the right to choose her own path of social development, a choice which should be respected and that unilateral sanctions against other countries or external interference in other countries’ internal affairs should be opposed.
Jinping said China had and will always support Cuba in taking the development road in line with its national conditions and building prosperous and sustainable socialism. China, he said, had also backed Cuba’s just fight to safeguard the security of its national sovereignty and oppose interference of the powerful.
According to the Chinese President, China will continue to provide assistance and support within its capacity to Cuba in fighting against the pandemic and improving people’s wellbeing. He expressed his belief that Cuba would make new progress in its socialist cause.
He stressed that under the careful cultivation and vigorous promotion of successive generations of leaders of the two parties and countries, China-Cuba relations have grown even stronger as time goes by, becoming a model of solidarity and cooperation between developing countries.
“No matter how the situation changes, China’s policy of sticking to long-term friendship with Cuba would not change, and its willingness to deepen cooperation in various fields with Cuba will not change,” Jinping said adding that China was ready to intensify high level exchanges with Cuba, strengthen exchanges and mutual learning in governance of party and state, deepen anti-pandemic cooperation, promote practical cooperation and push for even greater development in bilateral relations.
The two countries, Jinping said, should intensify their strategic coordination on international and multilateral occasions to safeguard the common interests of developing countries, adding that China would continue to uphold fairness and justice for Cuba in both speeches and deeds on the world stage.