Russia will support Cuba amidst renewed US hostility
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Foto: RHCMoscow, June 5.- Russia will help Cuba face the US sanctions that restrict group travel to the Caribbean nation.
'We will give them all kinds of help,' Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said in a meeting with the vice president of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, Ricardo Cabrisas, in the Russian capital
Borisov's statements, were quoted by the Russian news agency Interfax
Washington has adopted a host of punitive measure against Cuba, citing the island´s support to “US adversaries like Venezuela and Nicaragua.”
The Russian deputy prime minister described as 'complex' the situation created in the Cuba by the recent US restrictions and recalled his country´s involvement in numerous projects of energy, metallurgy, infrastructure and transport on the island nation.
He also stressed that the two countries are united by 'traditional bonds of friendship' and considered Cuba a key partner for Russia in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
Cabrisas has praised the increase of commercial exchanges between both countries, describing the Havana-Moscow links as 'strategic'. (RHC)
