Cuba and Antigua and Barbuda Ratify Friendship Bonds

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 12 (acn) Gerald Watt, president of the Chamber of Deputies of Antigua and Barbuda, ratified on Wednesday in this capital the strong bonds of friendship and solidarity existing between his country and Cuba.

On an official visit to the island for the first time, Watt was received by Politburo member Esteban Lazo, president of the National Assembly of the People's Power (ANPP), to whom he expressed his willingness to strengthen bilateral bonds.
He described diplomatic relations between Cuba and Antigua and Barbuda as excellent and highlighted the help received from Cuban voluntary workers in the areas of health and education.
Lazo thanked Antigua and Barbuda for its support in the struggle against the unfair economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the island by the United States for over half a century now.
He stressed that relations between parliaments are indispensable to strengthen bonds between governments, and that therefore "the most important thing is to work on what unites us and not on what separates us," he pointed out.
Also present at the meeting were Osbert Frederick, vice-president of the Senate of Antigua and Barbuda; Ana Maria Mari Machado, vice-president of the ANPP; and Yolanda Ferrer, president of its Commission of International Relations.