[NYTr] Cuban and Chinese Armies Strengthen Friendship

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Cuban and Chinese Armies Strengthen Friendship

Havana, August 2 (acn) The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) 
reiterated on Wednesday their friendship and cooperation ties with the 
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in a ceremony to commemorate the 
80th anniversary of the PLA foundation.

The ceremony, held at the Universal Hall of the Armed Forces Ministry 
in Havana, was presided over by Corps General Alvaro López Miera, head 
of the FAR's Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"Evidence of our friendship and cooperation is the exchange of visits," 
said Division General Leonardo Andollo Valdés recalling the visit to 
Beijing of Cuban First Vice President and Army General Raúl Castro in 
April 2005 and the visit to Havana last May of his Chinese counterpart 
Colonel-General Cao Ganchuan.

Andollo praised the achievements of the Chinese people in the economic 
sector and in strengthening the socialist ideology and also praised the 
role of the PLA not only in guaranteeing the defense of the homeland 
but also in the country's social and economic development.

For his part, Sun Yi Fan, military attaché of the Chinese embassy in 
Havana, referred to the close links of comradeship and brotherhood that 
exist between the military of both countries and made a call to further 
develop them.