Cuba and Cambodia boost medical cooperation
The willingness of the Cuban Government to strengthen medical collaboration with the Kingdom of Cambodia was ratified by meeting between José Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban Minister of Public Health, and Or Vandine, Secretary of State of the Cambodian Ministry of Health. Ms. Vandine said she was glad to be in the Island to learn about its health care system and conveyed her government’s appreciation that Cambodian students can become doctors in Cuba’s medical schools, in line with her country’s intention to expand this service as based on the Cuban experience.
ICAP president winds up in Cambodia tour of Asian nations
Fernando Gonzalez, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), on Monday wound up in Phnom Penh on a tour of Asian nations that previously took him to Laos and Vietnam. On his second and last day in this capital, Cheam Yeap, first vice president of the Cambodian Parliament, received Gonzalez, who is a lawmaker at the National People’s Power Assembly (ANPP) in Cuba. Yeap reiterated his country’s willingness to strengthen ties in all spheres with Cuba.
Lecture “Cuba-Cambodia relations” by Cuban Ambassador in Phnom Penh
The Institute for International Studies and Public Policy was honored to host a Public Lecture with the presence of H.E. Ms. Liurka Rodríguez Barrios, Ambassador of Cuba to the Kingdom of Cambodia. The diplomat said that the intense bilateral activity of recent weeks is nothing more than the fruit of the seed cultivated by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and King Father Norodom Sihanouk, who cemented an intimate friendship and identified with the common cause for peace and progress.
Cuban president congratulates Cambodian King on Independence Day
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel congratulated Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni on the occasion of today's 69th anniversary of the national Declaration of Independence, after nearly a century of French domination. Diaz-Canel delivered the message through the Cuban ambassador here, Liurka Rodriguez, conveying to His Majesty the warmest congratulations on behalf of the Cuban people and government, accompanied by best wishes for the prosperity and welfare of the Cambodian people. The Cuban head of state also reiterated "the will to continue strengthening the ties of friendship and cooperation between our countries". For his part, the monarch Norodom Sihamoni thanked Díaz-Canel for his letter, which he described as warm, and praised the existing ties between the peoples of Cuba and Cambodia.
Cuban government ratifies will to strengthen friendship with Cambodia
Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero ratified Wednesday the willingness to continue strengthening ties of friendship and cooperation with Cambodia, on the 69th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence.In his Twitter account, the head of government reiterated congratulations to the Southeast Asian nation that celebrates its liberation after almost a century of French colonialism. On this day, the Cuban prime minister sent a congratulatory message to his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Sen, in which he recalled the recent and historic exchange of visits.