Raul Meets with Palestinian Leader

HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 23 (acn) Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), met on Friday afternoon with Sharif Ali Housein Meshal (Abbas Zaki), general commissioner and member of the Political Bureau of the Al Fatah Movement, who is on a visit to Cuba.

In the fraternal meeting, the good progress of the historic relations between the Cuban Communist Party and the Fatah Movement was established, and aspects of the international situation were discussed, particularly in the Middle East.
Accompanying the distinguished leader were Dr. Mohamed Odeh Amer Abdelhadi, chairman of the Committee for Latin America in the area of International Relations of the Fatah Movement, and Dr. Akram Mohammad Rashid Samhan, Ambassador of the State of Palestine.
Cuba was also represented at the meeting by Politburo member and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez; the member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the PCC and head of its Department of International Relations, Jose Ramon Balaguer; and Clara Pulido, an official of that department.